TR Day 2
We slept in until 8. That's a lot of sleep considering we went to bed early!
It's become very apparent why I can never go to the half. Lord.
We did not want to do the early park thing. We wanted to sit by the pool and go to the parks later. So we headed to get some breakfast and pool time.
We got an excellent egg bacon cheese croissant from the takeaway
Curious? Is this aJersey term or the States in general? What do you think? I know it but am curious nonetheless. place. Like perfect. Ate it outside by the pool. Snagged chairs in the sun. Jodi made friends with a couple from NYC.
Overall hard rock impressions take 2. The rooms are nothing special. Very standard. Sure there are rock music pictures on the wall but in our opinion the Radisson in center city Philly is nicer.
Look at Liz! We'll call her Posh Spice! Winking. At you. The bathrooms are just very very plain. Another big not like Disney moment. No turndown service, no plush towels, no truly special touches. You do not stay here for the rooms.
Interesting.
Let me say that Amiee totally prepared me for all this. I'm just giving my impressions. We wouldn't want a change at all. We would stay here again. Just observations.
The pool area is fantastic. Nice soft sand. Plenty of chairs. Great music. You really stay here for the pool and express pass.
Nice!
Relaxing poolside and being able to skip all the lines is awesome.
We had drinks and snacks and the beachclub food was excellent. We stayed at the pool until 2:30.
Liking the doing nothing.Then we showered and went back to Studios. We probably got there about 3:30. We grabbed a beer and found the Blues Brothers show. Amiee recommended this and we loved it. We are fans of the blues brothers. This was one of the highlights for me. After the show we hit MIB and the ET ride. I like those storytelling rides the best. And universal isn't into them as much as they are special effects and technology. But I'm a fan of those classic storytelling rides so I honestly probably liked ET the best.
Around this time I developed a massively painful sciatic nerve.
Ouch Liz. Just out of the blue? Oy baby it hurt. Standing killed. So I was scampering around people because walking sucked but walking fast was my friend. We scampered to IOA. By this time we were hungry.
The first three places we saw to eat in IOA were closed at 4pm. But the park was open until 8pm. I could not get my head around this. Why???
SO strange. Feed. Me!!!
We went to superhero island to eat pizza. Dominos quality but we didn't care. I limped my way to the bathroom and then dragged Jodi to go on Spider-Man. I liked this ride. Didn't love it. Liked it. I'm just not into screens. Give me a good moving ride any day
Then we went to Seuss landing and rode the two moving rides there. Even the kiddie rides are intense!
Wow. Cat in the hat, basically pooh but it spins around multiple times. Jodi, remember motion sickness? Yeah. She did not love this. The train trolley one was delightful and offered a nice view of the park.
Hogwarts was next. Jodi stayed with me through the line and veered off at the end to what she called "where the old people and children wait
and Jodi!! (Lisa added!)". I did really like this. I smiled through the whole thing. It was fun and interesting. I think she could have done it but those screens, man. They are what messes you up!
We got a frozen butterbeer
So I hear this - but what? Just smooth sweet beer??????and we found we prefer the draft. We drank it as we walked out. A survey guy grabbed us and I went in and gave him my very honest impressions of universal. He was trying not to laugh hysterically. We told him it was okay he could laugh.
You must have made his day.
After that we headed to city walk. I will recap that next!
Good