Pinky166
<font color=deeppink>a little on the OCD side<br><
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Cast:
Me = Claire (33), massive Disney fan, chief planner (a little on the OCD side ) obsessive shopper, addicted to scrapbooking and very impulsive which doesnt bode well for our credit cards!
Hubby = Lee (34), not a massive Disney fan but still enjoys it, adrenaline junkie, easy going and the sensible half of our partnership!
3rd December 2008.
Well as is always the case we were wide awake at 4am!!
Now I should add that somewhere over the past 48 hours since leaving home we had decided that we wanted to treat ourselves to a new camcorder. Lee picked up a magazine (at Gatwick) which reviewed lots of HDR ones. We had decided which one we liked but wanted to look into it thoroughly on the internet before seeing if we could pick one up locally (price depending.) So as we were wide awake we got ready & picked up a Starbucks from the coffee shop in the hotel & sat in the hotel lobby searching the internet on our laptop. Luckily the one we had choose had great reviews so after lots of price checking we ordered it from Amazon.com with next day delivery. 
Some pics of the hotel decorations:
The front of the hotel:
We dropped the laptop back off in the room and walked over to Universal Studios for 9am, it was such a lovely day with a beautiful blue sky. We took a few pics on the way in to the park:
I loved the decorations on top of the street lights around the park:
We headed straight over to the Simpsons Ride as we had both really been looking forward to this, there was no wait time what so ever. What a great ride it definitely didnt disappoint! We came off and decided to go straight back on as there was still no queue.
I was not feeling too great but just thought it was a mixture of excitement and tiredness catching up on me from the day before. Anyway we carried on walking and could hear the Blues Brothers were performing so we walked over and watched them ..they always make me laugh. I didnt really feel up to going on The Mummy and Lee didnt want to go on his own so we grabbed a bottle of water & a Churro each (I love these things!) and sat on a bench for a while. We walked through the arcade and were sad to discover that lots of the arcade games had been removed. When we were last there in 2006 we discovered a love for the basketball hoop game and we got really competitive but they were no longer there.
They had lots of Christmas decorations and a big tree in the corner up past the Mummy ride, so we headed up there to take some photos.
We took a picture of ourselves in the reflection of one of the huge baubles on the tree:
The only other decorations around the park was a few of the Macys parade balloons that were spread about all around the park ready for the parade which started later in the week.
We were hungry by now as we had not eaten anything other than a Churro and decided to head out to either Citywalk or IOA to get some lunch. We walked across past the Hard Rock Café and carried on going so we ended up at the entrance to IOA.
A lovely view back across the water to our hotel:
We decided to have a quick bite to eat now and a bigger meal later so opted for a burger at the nearest place which happened to be Captain Americas diner. We both had a cheeseburger, fries & coke. I was hoping the food would make me feel a little better but if anything I was feeling worse.
Cont'd......
Me = Claire (33), massive Disney fan, chief planner (a little on the OCD side ) obsessive shopper, addicted to scrapbooking and very impulsive which doesnt bode well for our credit cards!
Hubby = Lee (34), not a massive Disney fan but still enjoys it, adrenaline junkie, easy going and the sensible half of our partnership!
3rd December 2008.
Well as is always the case we were wide awake at 4am!!
Now I should add that somewhere over the past 48 hours since leaving home we had decided that we wanted to treat ourselves to a new camcorder. Lee picked up a magazine (at Gatwick) which reviewed lots of HDR ones. We had decided which one we liked but wanted to look into it thoroughly on the internet before seeing if we could pick one up locally (price depending.) So as we were wide awake we got ready & picked up a Starbucks from the coffee shop in the hotel & sat in the hotel lobby searching the internet on our laptop. Luckily the one we had choose had great reviews so after lots of price checking we ordered it from Amazon.com with next day delivery. Some pics of the hotel decorations:
The front of the hotel:
We dropped the laptop back off in the room and walked over to Universal Studios for 9am, it was such a lovely day with a beautiful blue sky. We took a few pics on the way in to the park:
I loved the decorations on top of the street lights around the park:
We headed straight over to the Simpsons Ride as we had both really been looking forward to this, there was no wait time what so ever. What a great ride it definitely didnt disappoint! We came off and decided to go straight back on as there was still no queue.
I was not feeling too great but just thought it was a mixture of excitement and tiredness catching up on me from the day before. Anyway we carried on walking and could hear the Blues Brothers were performing so we walked over and watched them ..they always make me laugh. I didnt really feel up to going on The Mummy and Lee didnt want to go on his own so we grabbed a bottle of water & a Churro each (I love these things!) and sat on a bench for a while. We walked through the arcade and were sad to discover that lots of the arcade games had been removed. When we were last there in 2006 we discovered a love for the basketball hoop game and we got really competitive but they were no longer there.
They had lots of Christmas decorations and a big tree in the corner up past the Mummy ride, so we headed up there to take some photos.
We took a picture of ourselves in the reflection of one of the huge baubles on the tree:
The only other decorations around the park was a few of the Macys parade balloons that were spread about all around the park ready for the parade which started later in the week.
We were hungry by now as we had not eaten anything other than a Churro and decided to head out to either Citywalk or IOA to get some lunch. We walked across past the Hard Rock Café and carried on going so we ended up at the entrance to IOA.
A lovely view back across the water to our hotel:
We decided to have a quick bite to eat now and a bigger meal later so opted for a burger at the nearest place which happened to be Captain Americas diner. We both had a cheeseburger, fries & coke. I was hoping the food would make me feel a little better but if anything I was feeling worse.
Cont'd......
: We got back to the hotel about 9pm and as we didn’t have room for a dessert earlier we decided to share an ice cream from Emack & Bolios. We got a Banana Split, which included three scoops of ice cream, you could choose from all the flavours they do so we chose one scoop of strawberry, one pistachio & one chocolate peanut butter! It was huge and between us we barely ate half!!!
, looking forward to reading more
But love all the pictures 
That Fender fountain looks cool - we're staying at HRH in April for the 1st time and my son is a massive guitar freak so he's going to love it... 
.x.
