Day 3: Universal Studios
So today was an early start at 6:30 am getting a quick shower and change before heading down to breakfast toast and orange juice for me, and cereal, fruit and yogurt with an orange juice for Jonathan. We left the hotel at 8 expecting it to be a 20 minute or so drive but it only took us 10 minutes to get to our parking spot of 5th in the normal parking spaces. So we enjoyed a leisurly strole to the Universal Studio's Entrance where we took some pictures.
We managed to have our vouchures converted in 5 minutes and was then sat with about 10 others waiting to be let through the turnstiles. Once let in we headed for the Simpsons and was straight into the holding area. This ride is brilliant and is a must do for everyone who can manage with motion simulator rides as it is quite intense.
After the ride through smallville we headed to MIB which is right next door only to be told it was broken down ok no problem we would head over to do Jaws Disaster and the mummy before returning that way. Well we walked by and both Jaws and Disaster were not open until 11 although it never mentioned this in the guide map.
Oh well we made our way to mummy which was a walk on and we got straight into a ride car because we was only a 2. We both loved the mummy but was disapointed that the ride photo's where down. Oh well we headed off to twister and waited about 5 minutes before we got into the nicely cold twister affected rooms.
On exiting we decided to get a drink however all the drink/icecream carts had no one working at them and as we made our way to the one outside the mummy to get a drink there was a few cockroaches walking past our feet. Ewww we are not getting anything from there. We got one from outside Disaster and after discovering MIB was still not open and with an hour to spare decided to take some photos.
After taking photo's we sat in the shade outside the Animal show and had a nice relaxing drink before ET was to open. I went into the toilets and was disgusted at how filthy it was in there especially when I discovered the horrible dragonfly type insect that was hovering in my cubicle im not joking it was about the size of a bird, im suprised that I didn't scream and run outside making a scene. Once outside me and Jonathan talked about how much more we enjoyed Disney over Universal, Jonathan said except for the 2 rides he wasn't impressed with the place, people and atmosphere like he had been with Disney. Finally it got to 11 and we went on ET Jonathan commented on how he could see why I loved this ride as a kid. I was hungry at this point so we went to get Lunch at Mel's Drive In before the Animal show came on at 12. I had the chicken strips meal while Jonathan had the cheeseburger meal.
We sat down to watch the Animal show I wasn't as impressed with this as I have in other years the dog that they had doing tricks they only had him playing dead ok my dog can do that and well the monkey was no longer in the show.
Jonathan thought it was ok though. I took these photo's in the show.
An finally when the show had finished MIB was opened and the queue to get lockers was longer than the queue for the ride. We queued about 10 minutes from the ride and managed to get from about 12 back in the queue to gettin straight on again thanks to being a 2. I was really impressed that I beat Jonathan on this although he keeps coming up with excuses.
It was then time for Jaws and the squeeze breeze came in handy as we waited in the 20 minute queue to ride. Again being a 2 we managed to get into a boat a little bit quicker. I still kept jumping when he comes by the side of the boat early on in the ride which Jonathan found hillarious and kept saying how many times have you been on this. Disaster was a 30 minute queue and I didn't like what they had done with the new theming however the ride was still good and the video they show on the way back to the station is funny.
With this ride over we only had Shrek and terminator to do there was only a 10 minute wait for shreck so we jumped straight in the queue however once through the staging area's we sat in our seats only for the power to fail in that screening area after about 10 minutes of waiting and awful jokes they said we had to be moved into the second screening area. I like this 3D show it is very cool.
Once outside Shrek it was about 3:45 I was losing my patience especially in the heat, was tired and said to Jonathan lets just do terminator before we head back to relax get tea and have a nice swim in the pool. We got to terminator and was told the next showing was in an hour so decided to head straight back to the hotel calling in at
Walmart on the way where I was horrified to discover didn't have any hair straightners. Oh well back to the hotel where we chilled out watching house before freshning up before we headed to the onsite Golden Corral for dinner.
Jonathan really liked this place like I always have and we both had quite a lot to eat. I took this picture of Jonathan with his desserts.
Once back at the hotel at the hotel we quickly got changed and headed down to the pool where we spent a few hours relaxing in the pool and Jacuzzi before heading up to bed for a shower and an early night.
Next: Day 4: Typhoon Lagoon & Limo Chef Mickey Dinner
). It sounds like you had a great birthday (though shame about the other family in the limo)
