Day 4, May 8; Universal's Islands of Adventure & Disney Quest
Our alarm clock went off at 7.00 again. After snoozing it once, we both got up, took a shower and watched Saved by the Bell on TBS (I loved that show when I was a lot younger, and it's still great
).
We decided to have breakfast outside our room today and around 8.00 we drove to IHOP. We both got the banana-walnut pancakes. They were excellent, but we couldn't eat them all!
Around 8.50, we got in our car again and drove to Universal. We got there around 9.10, which was nice timing, because Universal opened at 9.00. We parked our car at King Kong 211 and walked to the City Walk. We were not really in a hurry, because we bought express passes online, which would give us express entrance to the attractions.
After this nice walk, we got to Universal's Islands of Adventure.
We got our 7 day, 2 park tickets from one of the machines and tried to enter the park. Our tickets didn't work though, so one of the cast members had to come to our rescue. She wrote the date on our passes and let us enter.
We walked to the left, to enther the first island; Marvel Super Hero Island.
Wow, we really felt like walking into a cartoon!
We decided to get a good wake up call and went on the Hulk rollercoaster first. And what a wake up call this was.
It was real fun though, and a walk on. We actually didn't need our express tickets the whole day, so it was a waste of our money, but who really cares?
They were only $15 each. And what's $15 on a $4000 + vacation?
After the Hulk, we rode Dr Doom's fearfall, which was fun, but really short. Why is there only one drop?? Imagine the Tower of Terror having only one drop. That would be a huge dissapointment, right? That's what this felt like too, although the one drop was great.
We went to Spiderman, of which we had heard many good stories. There was no wait (again) and we got in one of the cars instantly (after walking the long, long (!) waiting line). And what a great ride. I've never seen something like that before! A combination between 3D and an actual ride, fantastic!
We both loved this one!
After Spiderman, we walked to the next island; Toon Lagoon.
We decided to try the Dudley Do-Rights Ripsaw Falls. It looked like fun. We got in our flume and guess what? The other three people in our flume were Dutch too! What a coincedence!
They warned us we would get very wet. And boy, we did. We got totally soaked. And my bag was really wet as well. It was a fun ride though, although we didn't dry up for the next couple of hours!
Even though we were really wet already, I didn't really feel like getting soaked again, so we skipped Popeye's and walked to the next island to ride our favorite ride in the Universal Studios in Hollywood last year; Jurrassic Park River Adventure. And it did meet our expectations; it still was an excellent ride. And we really didn't get that wet on this one.
We ate (yes, ate... we really couldn't drink it) a milkshake and went to the Pteranadon Flyers, but the line was really long (60 minutes, this was were all the people were!!) and our express passes couldn't be used for this one, so we decided to skip it.
We walked to the next Island; the Lost Continent. The flying Unicorn looked like a kiddy ride, so we walked past it to the Duelling Dragons; which looked like a lot of fun. We walked the long, long line (what is it with Universal and their enormous waiting lines?) and chose the red dragon. But when it was almost our time to ride, the ride had some technical difficulties. We waited a couple of minutes, but after that we decided to go and try this one later.
We walked over to Poseidon's Fury, which was OK, but also a bit too theatrical for us
The dragons still weren't duelling, so we decided to get some lunch, because we wanted to see the 1 pm Sindbad show after that.
We had a really nice burger and great fries at the Enchanted Oak Tavern. Probably the best burger we ate on this trip.
The outside seating area of this restaurant had a great view of the other side of the park as well.
When we walked to the Sindbad show, we noticed the Duelling Dragons were running again. We couldn't resist and went on the Fire one first, which was great!
We also were just in time for the 1 pm Sindbad show. It actually was a great show, a lot better than I expected it to be. It was funny and the stunts were nice. We enjoyed it!
After the show, we tried the Ice version of the Duelling Dragons. I liked that one even better than the Fire version. What an excellent ride. So cool!
We had an icee and after that, we went to the last island; Seuss Landing. This island had a lot of kiddie rides, which we skipped. We did the Cat in the Hat though, which was pretty cool. Now we finally understand the "Thing 1" and "Thing 2" merchandise everyone wears. Dr. Seuss isn't really well known in the Netherlands, we had never heard of his creatures.
At 2.30, we were at the entrance of the park again! We really though we would need a whole day for this park. We decided to do Spiderman again, because it was such a great ride. But after that, we decided to leave the park. Gerbert grabbed an ice cream on our way out.
We liked this park; it had lots of cool rides, but I really missed something... the Disney atmosphere! And what to do with this free afternoon that we would have now??
up next: Disney Quest
We have been to both water parks and I like TL the best.. I can't wait to read what you thought of it.. Your pictures are great I can't wait to see more..
their salad!!!
Which is really far for some. 
