Our glorious weather finally gave up on us today and the heavens opened. Tour guides were heard to remark that they couldn't actually remember a day that had such prolonged heavy rain. We got absolutely soaked to the skin. On the plus side it meant everywhere was pretty quiet, the downside was that they cancelled the parade and light show. Fortunately the weather cleared up for the Fantasmic display in the evening.

We started the day with the Studios Backlot Tour, the most spectacular part of which was the Catastrophic Canyon with explosions and deluges. I was already pretty damp at this point, but when they dumped the water tanks on us the water ran straight over the top of the carriage and down my back. At that point I gave up on ever being dry again. The tour was quite cool and the guide was good when we could hear him.

Next up was the car stunt show, which was even more impressive given the rain. It was a nice mix of exciting stunts and technical explanations for how they did them. The cheesy production elements and recruiting children from the audience I could have done without though.

I got overly excited at the appearance of a full mock-up of the Muppet theatre and loved every minute of it. Even the pre-show while we were queuing was funny and I forgot all about being wet when we filed into the actual Muppet theatre with Statler and Waldorf's balcony and everything. The mix of 3-D, puppets, animatronics and costumes was absolutely perfect and I loved it to bits. So I like the Muppets, what's wrong with that? This was followed by an equally exciting trip to Pizza Planet for lunch which had giant green aliens hanging from the ceiling. The pizza was also really good.

Star Tours was next which was satisfying in a geeky way, but not nearly as good as I'd hoped. I think I actually found the queuing area which was mocked up with animatronic druids and vehicles and the giant At-At outside more interesting. The Indiana Jones stunt spectacular was fun, although again suffered from cheesy audience participation.

I'm not sure which order we did the rest of the rides in, it blurs into one long soggy episode. Beauty and the Beast Live on stage was fun, the dancing crockery and furniture was very well done. The Animation tour and Walt Disney: One Man's Dream were quite interesting and exactly what you'd expect. Voyage of the Little Mermaid was cleverly done using simple effects to recreate the film. The Great Movie Ride involved a horribly long queue I remember and was a kinda adult It's A Small World, I honestly can't remember whether I liked it or not.

After a considerable amount of uncertainty they decided that Fantasmic would be shown and we perused the shops on Sunset Boulevard on the way to the giant stadium. The show wasn't anywhere near as good as the fireworks at the other parks, but it was interestingly done with images projected onto a fountain of water. Just about every Disney character ever was waving at you from a barge on the lake and the giant dragon that appeared was pretty amazing. We slithered off home to warm showers and an early night.