Universal Studios

We woke up at 6.30 after a good night.

We ordered breakfast in the room which was quicker than going down for it.

The bus picked us up on time and we went around picking people up. The trip was a bit of a nightmare as the diver and a passenger talked non stop about basket ball for over an hour. All the other passengers and us were all fit to kill them both when we got off. I thought football was boring but these tow took the biscuit. We stopped in Hollywood, Walk of Fame to get our tickets for Universal which was very disorganised and chaotic.

Fortunately, we had a different driver and it was only 20 min to Universal. We went straight in and were there for the opening which they make like the start of shooting a movie scene.

We did the Shrek ride first which was really good and then we went for a coffee and planned our route.

We stopped to help with a survey about where we had come from etc and were given front of queue passes for the studio tour so went straight off to do that. It was really good and the King Kong studio ride was amazing in 4D.

I loved the Simpsons ride even though the man behind me freaked out when the car closed and the lights went out. He was huge and I thought he was going to fall on top of me as he was trying to climb out. Fortunately, they stopped the ride and let him out. By far the best ride for me.

We were able to take lots of photos and as it was not really busy you could get by all the characters and they even have staff on hand to take the photos for you of your group.

Lunch was not so good, chicken burger and not my idea of food but it filled a gap.

We went in to see the Terminator show but I didn't like it and had to have my eyes closed as it was making me feel ill. When I opened them at the end I nearly had a fit as the room was full of smoke and I couldn't see!

The Animal show was really good and showed how they train animals for films.

We saw the Blues Brothers and how they do Stage Effects. The whole place was full of characters and you were allowed to get close to them unlike Dysney in Paris where there are so many people and the characters have to have minders.

We managed to get in to see the last Waterworld show which was spectacular.

I would have liked to go on the Simpson's ride again but we didn't have time as we wanted to see the shops in Universal Village.

Our bus arrived and although the driver was much better than yesterday he once again went through all the sights of Hollywood and it took ages to get back. I think I could now find my way around LA quite well. We got back at 7.00 - a long day.

We went out for dinner and wanted to find a place to have a steak and a burger - trying to please three people is very difficult and we walked all around S Monica. We were walking past our hotel and I suggested we look at the menu and low and behold they had both steak and burgers on the menu. We had a lovely steak and Heather enjoyed her burger. If only we had checked it could have saved our feet a lot of pain.

And now to bed sooooo tired.

Hopefully I will be this tired tomorrow and sleep on the plane


WEATHER
Fine and sunny all day but chilly in the shade.