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1st June universal studios
Up we got, refreshed and ready for island of adventures within universal studios. Breakfast check, sun cream check, tickets check, camera- out of battery. Good one Rich. Luckily I got us up at 8 so we didn't miss out on the day but we lost a good hour by charging the camera. 10 o clock came and we hopped on the shuttle to universal. Our shuttle had a high density of ladies which was from we could see the delight to a particularly pervy old man (68) who managed to get them to sing happy birthday to him. Think it made his day. He was going to universal studios alone on his birthday. Once within the ground and through the ticket gate we headed straight for the much anticipated Harry Potter land. We got a tip to go straight there to the far side of the campus as middle of the day queues will be upto 2 hours. I reckon I like Harry Potter as much as the next person. Unless that person is Richard Cassidy. This has always been on the list of things to do and he would shut up about it for the
last 3 weeks travelling. So on one hand it's good to get it out the way so hopefully I could get some peace, but on the other hand we were here and I'm going to have to endure most amount of pictures, quotes and stares of blank amazement on his face over the littlest of mass produced memorabilia you could get anywhere. The hogwarts express, Hagrids hut, moaning Mertle talking to you whilst urinating, Olivanders wand shop, Diagon Ally, Hogsmead, characters dressed up and all the weird Harry Potter sweets were some of the attractions. We have pictures. First we headed onto the Harry Potter Dragon ride. There was a small line but nothing major. I decided I'm going to try and video the whole go round the track. After a lot more planning than one would of thought, I managed it. Not without a few scares though. But for your viewing here it is.
This was pretty incredible, a good way to start the day. Once out of here we headed to the Harry Potter virtual reality ride. This is where your sort of "on your broom" flying around with Harry fighting dementers and playing a spot of
quidditch. Once again I tried to video it but this one didn't come out unfortunately. After leaving this ride is when the heavens opened and the 5 hour down pour started. In our infinite wisdom and us being cheap, we would not buy an anorak but we would battle through it. This was the wrong decision as Rich's camera will tell you. Currently battling for its life after an extensive drowning. We went on to sample the fantastic four part of the ground along with the marvel area. My Sheffield house mates, this is your wet dream. You would love it. Jurassic park quarters was the next stop where we found many dinosaur replicas, log flume, and a river ride. We got absolutely soaked on the river ride as we were on the front. The people behind us didn't seem to get wet at all. We acted as a barrier to the people wearing anoraks. Great. Suppose it didn't matter too much due to being wet through from till the constant torrential rain. We thing this is where the camera took its last breath. We walked through the "cat in the hat" land about 5 times throughout the day and
I don't know who designed it but I think they were trying to recreate a LSD trip they had experienced as the whole thing just made you feel trippy and confused with all the bright colours, creepy characters and massive flowers everywhere. It's hard to describe. The Hulk ride was the last of the day and from what he had heard it was the biggest, fastest ride at the park and not to miss it. We had to wait an hour to get on it but yes, it was worth it. We always go front row as well. I wanted to video this but due to more "security", tighter seats and weather not permitting this couldn't be achieved. Off home we went to shower and a night out along the universal walk. Our evening started off pretty standard. Pre drinks, games and leave around 10 ish. So far this was going well but on the walk to the night life Rich thought it was necessary to get more booze from a liquor store "on the way". In no way was this on the way. It took us 1 hour and 15 mins to get from the hotel to universal walk.
This is a 20 minute walk tops. So rich goes and buys a bottle of wine, only to find out that it has a cork in the top. So what do we do, head into the next super market, ask a women where the cork screws were and there we had it. An hour lost of the night for a bottle of wine. We headed into a club called groove to where we would be treated like pieces of meat by "cougars" all night. Rich of course loved the attention we were getting but to be full on grinding with two 40+ women on the dance floor is funny for a while and but after a bit it looks pretty sad. We left these two and headed into the smoking area where we can chat to people and flaunt the accent a bit. Again, we were ambushed and told to sit down with a group of hair dresses in town for a convention. Again all 40+ and acting 18. I really don't know how it came about or why, but two of them took it upon themselves to have a lap dance off and guess who were the two who
had to endure this. Again it was funny for a bit but this went on for about 30 minutes. Gets a little bit weird after this long. What didn't help was Rich having a nice looking girl dancing for him and I had a she hulk thinking I was a nice looking play thing to sit on. Either way I swiftly moved on back inside only to be dragged back onto the dance floor by the first two women. The club closed at 2am and I got away. Rich pulled one of them and to this day thinks he gets man points. He does not.
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