Day 6; Universal Studios
We got up at our regular time this morning and after eating a waffle in the hotel, we got in our car around 8.40 to go to Universal Studios, the park we originally had planned for our first day here, but you all know how that went!
Universal isn't as close to our hotel as Disney, but after driving for 20 minutes, we saw this sign:
We were directed to the Spider-man parking lot and from there we were at the city walk pretty soon. At the crossing, we followed the people that were going to the Studios. IOA was planned for another day.
We had to get our pre-paid tickets out of the machines, but there was nobody in line, so we got them pretty quick.
With the tickets in hand, we walked into the park. We grabbed a map and instantly walked to the new ride which had just been opened; the Simpsons ride! On our way there, it was so quiet in the park. We loved it!
We noticed we were in the Simpsons area pretty soon... loved the Kwik-E-Mart!
And yes, there it was! We had to enter through Krusty's mouth.
This ride only opened about a week or so ago and was still in its testing phase, and that was noticeable! There were only 50 people or so in front of us, but we still had to stand in line for 30 minutes. They really didn't find a high speed loading procedure for this ride...
But it was a lot of fun anyway! A bit rough sometimes, but fun! We were asked to fill out a survey when we exited the ride, so we did. We gave it a 4 out of 5.
After this new experience, it was time to do some familiar rides. We started off with Men in Black, which still is a very cool ride! It is even better when it is a walk-on
It's just too bad Gerbert is so much better at this game than I am....
I had to look for danger when I saw Jaws again...
We did the Jaws boatride too, ofcourse. We were on the good side of the boat this time and saw Jaws up close & personal!
After Jaws, we got to Disaster, which changed his name from Earthquake recently. They improved the ride with some cool movie features in the tram. We liked it a lot better now!
After this tramride, we saw a Starbucks and just had to get a chocolate chip frappuchino!
It was time for the Beetlejuice Graveyard Revue now, a show that we liked last year and we still thought it was very enjoyable.
It was lunchtime and we decided to go to Richter's Burger Company again, because we liked their burgers so much last year! You can throw everything you want on your burger and they aren't as greasy as many others.
It was a mistake to order the double ones though, because we came out stuffed!
After lunch, we walked to the Shrek 4D show and saw that Donkey, Fiona and Shrek were out and there was nobody in line. We chatted about our wedding with Donkey for a while and got our picture taken with all of them. I love the way Donkey looks at me...
The Shrek show was also on our list and although we've seen it like 5 times now, I still love it!
We walked over to the area where the Blues Brothers would appear in a couple of minutes. Their show was short, but they were really into it!
After this, we went to the children area because I wanted to meet with the Madagascar characters. On our way there, I took a little drive around Hollywood
We were 15 minutes early for the Madagascar penguins, so we had a drink while we waited. We were second in line for the penguins, that look really cute!
We saw a piece of a stage show and I got my picture taken with Scooby and Shaggy. Shaggy is trying to look cool... I think..
By now, we did everything we wanted to do and decided to head to the entrance. We did the Jimmy Neutron attraction on our way there and bought a picture they took from us when we entered the park this morning.
It was around 4-ish when we left the park. On our way to the parking lot, we came across a sports cafe with a lot of cars in front of it. Being a big car freak, Gerbert posed with one of those cars.
We drove back to the hotel and had a nice and quiet afternoon there. We watched some TV, spent some time on the laptop and had a nice afternoon nap. We also made reservations at the Melting Pot, a restaurant that someone we know recommended.
We drove to Sand Lake Road around 7.40 and arrived just before 8. We got seated instantly and had to make some meny choices. We chose the Big Night Out Menu, with a cheddar cheese fondue as a starter, a nice salad between meals, a coq au vin bouillon as an entree and a milk chocolate with peanut pieces fondue as a dessert.
We really LOVED this meal. It was so good!
We were really full when we finished our meal. I almost had to eat the dessert by myself, because Gerbert was too stuffed to eat something!
We were back at our hotel around 10.15 and fell asleep pretty soon after that.
Up next: Blizzard Beach & Pirate and Princess Party
Congratulations
I'm the proud owner of a Wii since last week!!! 
