Captain-Ste
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Day 12 - Wednesday May 17th ( I think lol)
Today was probably the day I was most dreading ..- I didnt note down what we had for brekkie - so Ill leave that to your imagination!! Well .Today was Universal day!!!!!!! Eeeeeeek - I hate the place!! So set off from the hotel at god knows what time took us about 25mins to get there (or round about) its quite a nice drive to there, I love going along international drive (even though I dont like there either) as long as we arent stopping Im fine! So we get to Universal and decide to take advantage of the preferred parking. Cost $14.00... So not bad Park the car - one of the only things I like about US is that the car park is a multi-storey and no sunlight gets at the car!! I hate getting in the boiling hot car at WDW!! Hop along all the conveyor belt thingies and walk through Universal City walk - I looked for the live camera which I watch on the web (which you are all probably familiar with) - hey you might of seen me on it lolol (even though I hid). We hadnt bought a US ticket this year in advance as we only planned coming for one day so we went up to the ticket booth chose the tickets ,bought em and made our way into the park! (took a deep breathe by this time lol). We walked around the park in a clockwise direction (lol) Looked in a few shops - rode ET!!! After ET it was time for back to the future which I had done already so wasnt too bothered about this one the queue was 5 or 10mins long, not so bad. Boarded the Car - and the ride began etc etc . The ride was OK - I didnt enjoy half as much as last year!! After that it was time for my favourite ride in US - Men in black!! Queuing time was all of 15mins - probably even a bit quicker. At the end of the ride I had a shameful score I wont mention on here lol. The time after exiting the ride was about 11am or something like that (it was over 4months ago lol I dont remember). Walked towards Jaws, we all fancied this again , (I loved it last year) but the queue was too big - ah well (always next year
). Standing outside by the giant shark hung up
.a giant pigeon swooped down over the people walking by
.and then this man (if you can call him that) jumped up in the air and whacked it??? Feathers flew off it and landed on the floor, the bird looked ok , it flew off and didnt see it again. I called that man every name under the sun , he heard me (good) ..hope his hand falls off. Blooming Americans!! Carried on walking around the park
The others (sounds like lost lol) wanted to do the Mummy!!!!! The swines wanted me to go on it - you must be joking!! On ya bike I aint doing that!! Queuing time was 25mins - ye ok not too long
- As Im sat on a bench outside an Irish (I think) pub, - I was in hysterics , people must of thought I was balmy ( lolol) The mummy man on stilts was terrorising the crowds - if hed of come near me Id of kicked his stilts lol (scary men they were). Time went by - I spent the time just laughing and doing my favourite hobby 
people watching!!!!!! (and dibber/disaber/TCDer watching) Sadly didnt see any. They eventually came out and we carried on walking around the park - Twister was our next stop
as was Back to the future - I didnt enjoy this as much as last year. One thing different from last - I got really soaked , I was stood in the front lol. Hmmmm Lunch time!!!!!!!! What to have -
It was the Hardrock café we decided on.. Sat down straight away , was a lovely atmosphere in there!! Our waitress was blond - dont remember her name (didnt look at her badge lol) - I ordered a coke and the BLT. When it came - it looked so nice! And I can confirm - I didnt leave any - even ate all the bacon (not veggie anymore). It was the best BLT Ive ever had!! We all thoroughly enjoyed our meals - and can not wait to get back next year!!!!!!! Yum!! After an hour or so in there, we decided not to bother going back in US - but instead go to IOA - we only had a one day ticket for both - so why not?
The temp today must have been in the 90s it was scorching !! Walked around the park abit, the usual , I was hating it, I hate this park aswell. The others wanted to do The Hulk - so they went and queued up and I sat under one of the giant green polls, hid away from the sun!! lol - sat there people watching for a bit then this announcement came on the tannoy - that the Hulk had broken down. - I thought oh god I hope they arent trapped on it - that would be bloomin hilarious!! They eventually came back to me and sadly they hadnt got stuck , they had just gotten to the front of the queue when it broke!! Ha ha. Spiderman was calling
.(the ride lol) - I liked this last year, a bit scary - but hey - got the adrenaline going lol. Waiting time was 40mins!!!!! One of the longest we saw that day. We stood and waited though - one of the reasons I agreed to wait was the fact that the queuing zone was A/Cd!!! Which was fantastic. Time flew by and we were on the ride - the ride was ok , not the best , but ok. After that we just had a wander around did a couple more rides (no big ones for me lol). Probably around 4 oclock or near there we decided to go back to the hotel - US and IOA were ok - and we will go back next year because we have free tickets with the villa lol - wont ever say no to a freebie . Got back to the car, which was actually nice and cool from being in the shade, and drove back to the hotel. Once at the hotel , I didnt really feel like a swim so the others went down the pool and I stayed upstairs watching TV, lying down , resting and on the internet lolol. I did later follow them for a short while - top up my tan! Hours went by and we were starting to get a wee bit hungry. Taco bell was our chosen place - god I loved it here so much (Im gagging for one now!!!!!!!!!) I had a burrito of some sort with spicy potato things. Yum yum , very delish! I think it was the taco bell near Formosa gardens , I could be wrong. After leaving there rather stuffed we went to Walgreens , all in all I think we went to this shop every single day of the holiday lol. Bought some stuff - and the main thing , a bag of Krispy Kremes - Mmmmmm they were nice!! It was now getting late - probably about 9ish - ok not that late - but it had been a hard day (ha ha) - so went back to the room for the night.
Tomorrow Day 13 - May 18th -highlight of that day - Harry Ramsdens. Lol
Sorry for the lack of pictures - my camera didnt always work lol stupid thing, it worked when it wanted too!! so no pics!
Today was probably the day I was most dreading ..- I didnt note down what we had for brekkie - so Ill leave that to your imagination!! Well .Today was Universal day!!!!!!! Eeeeeeek - I hate the place!! So set off from the hotel at god knows what time took us about 25mins to get there (or round about) its quite a nice drive to there, I love going along international drive (even though I dont like there either) as long as we arent stopping Im fine! So we get to Universal and decide to take advantage of the preferred parking. Cost $14.00... So not bad Park the car - one of the only things I like about US is that the car park is a multi-storey and no sunlight gets at the car!! I hate getting in the boiling hot car at WDW!! Hop along all the conveyor belt thingies and walk through Universal City walk - I looked for the live camera which I watch on the web (which you are all probably familiar with) - hey you might of seen me on it lolol (even though I hid). We hadnt bought a US ticket this year in advance as we only planned coming for one day so we went up to the ticket booth chose the tickets ,bought em and made our way into the park! (took a deep breathe by this time lol). We walked around the park in a clockwise direction (lol) Looked in a few shops - rode ET!!! After ET it was time for back to the future which I had done already so wasnt too bothered about this one the queue was 5 or 10mins long, not so bad. Boarded the Car - and the ride began etc etc . The ride was OK - I didnt enjoy half as much as last year!! After that it was time for my favourite ride in US - Men in black!! Queuing time was all of 15mins - probably even a bit quicker. At the end of the ride I had a shameful score I wont mention on here lol. The time after exiting the ride was about 11am or something like that (it was over 4months ago lol I dont remember). Walked towards Jaws, we all fancied this again , (I loved it last year) but the queue was too big - ah well (always next year
). Standing outside by the giant shark hung up
.a giant pigeon swooped down over the people walking by
.and then this man (if you can call him that) jumped up in the air and whacked it??? Feathers flew off it and landed on the floor, the bird looked ok , it flew off and didnt see it again. I called that man every name under the sun , he heard me (good) ..hope his hand falls off. Blooming Americans!! Carried on walking around the park
The others (sounds like lost lol) wanted to do the Mummy!!!!! The swines wanted me to go on it - you must be joking!! On ya bike I aint doing that!! Queuing time was 25mins - ye ok not too long
- As Im sat on a bench outside an Irish (I think) pub, - I was in hysterics , people must of thought I was balmy ( lolol) The mummy man on stilts was terrorising the crowds - if hed of come near me Id of kicked his stilts lol (scary men they were). Time went by - I spent the time just laughing and doing my favourite hobby people watching!!!!!! (and dibber/disaber/TCDer watching) Sadly didnt see any. They eventually came out and we carried on walking around the park - Twister was our next stop
as was Back to the future - I didnt enjoy this as much as last year. One thing different from last - I got really soaked , I was stood in the front lol. Hmmmm Lunch time!!!!!!!! What to have -
It was the Hardrock café we decided on.. Sat down straight away , was a lovely atmosphere in there!! Our waitress was blond - dont remember her name (didnt look at her badge lol) - I ordered a coke and the BLT. When it came - it looked so nice! And I can confirm - I didnt leave any - even ate all the bacon (not veggie anymore). It was the best BLT Ive ever had!! We all thoroughly enjoyed our meals - and can not wait to get back next year!!!!!!! Yum!! After an hour or so in there, we decided not to bother going back in US - but instead go to IOA - we only had a one day ticket for both - so why not?
The temp today must have been in the 90s it was scorching !! Walked around the park abit, the usual , I was hating it, I hate this park aswell. The others wanted to do The Hulk - so they went and queued up and I sat under one of the giant green polls, hid away from the sun!! lol - sat there people watching for a bit then this announcement came on the tannoy - that the Hulk had broken down. - I thought oh god I hope they arent trapped on it - that would be bloomin hilarious!!
They eventually came back to me and sadly they hadnt got stuck , they had just gotten to the front of the queue when it broke!! Ha ha. Spiderman was calling
.(the ride lol) - I liked this last year, a bit scary - but hey - got the adrenaline going lol. Waiting time was 40mins!!!!! One of the longest we saw that day. We stood and waited though - one of the reasons I agreed to wait was the fact that the queuing zone was A/Cd!!! Which was fantastic. Time flew by and we were on the ride - the ride was ok , not the best , but ok. After that we just had a wander around did a couple more rides (no big ones for me lol). Probably around 4 oclock or near there we decided to go back to the hotel - US and IOA were ok - and we will go back next year because we have free tickets with the villa lol - wont ever say no to a freebie . Got back to the car, which was actually nice and cool from being in the shade, and drove back to the hotel. Once at the hotel , I didnt really feel like a swim so the others went down the pool and I stayed upstairs watching TV, lying down , resting and on the internet lolol. I did later follow them for a short while - top up my tan! Hours went by and we were starting to get a wee bit hungry. Taco bell was our chosen place - god I loved it here so much (Im gagging for one now!!!!!!!!!) I had a burrito of some sort with spicy potato things. Yum yum , very delish! I think it was the taco bell near Formosa gardens , I could be wrong. After leaving there rather stuffed we went to Walgreens , all in all I think we went to this shop every single day of the holiday lol. Bought some stuff - and the main thing , a bag of Krispy Kremes - Mmmmmm they were nice!! It was now getting late - probably about 9ish - ok not that late - but it had been a hard day (ha ha) - so went back to the room for the night. Tomorrow Day 13 - May 18th -highlight of that day - Harry Ramsdens. Lol
Sorry for the lack of pictures - my camera didnt always work lol stupid thing, it worked when it wanted too!! so no pics!
