You can see where Ben wanted to go first. This candy store sells Peeps in bulk for $30. No thank you!
I thought our early morning departure went pretty well until Ben realized he put on two different shoes. At least they mostly look the same.
The majority of rides are virtual. Our first was Shrek and I thought it was cool. After you do the other rides though, it's kind of lame.
We waited a long time for this ride--just like a roller coaster without the actual roller coaster. Unfortunately, these virtual rides make me sick.
It takes four escalators to get down to the lower park area with the really fun rides. At least we didn't have to walk it.
The Mummy ride is an actual roller coaster and was my favorite. Ben was not a fan. I didn't take any pictures of it, although I thought I did. FYI we are standing right by it in this picture.
We waited FOREVER (90 minutes) to ride Transformers. They wind you around a whole bunch of rooms so the wait isn't as bad as it could be. You can see the AllSpark and mess with all the knobs you can reach.
It was worth the wait. You feel like you are in one of the movies. But it also made me nauseous. Our second day, we were a little more park savvy and went straight to the lower levels. We walked right on the ride. Our motion sick-less kids rode it twice.
The Jurassic Park ride is good too, when I rode it the first day I didn't get too wet. I made the best decision of my life not to ride the next day.
Matt and Henry got completely soaked.
Somehow Zack came out nearly dry.
These boys got their own raft. Lucky!
There aren't many rides at Universal Studios but they have some interesting shows. None of us will look at movies the same after watching the special effects show. And the animal actors show was fun too.
We didn't see any celebrities while we were on the studio tour. But they are currently filming Go On (love that show!), Guys with Kids and several more that I can't think of. The studio tour was fun to see some of the city sets.
We also drove through Wisteria Lane from Desperate Housewives (never watched that show) and saw sets from Jaws,
War of the Worlds, Psycho, Spiderman, Pirates of the Caribbean and more. There is a super cool King Kong 3-D ride created by Peter Jackson.
Some of the Christmas decorations were still up. I liked this little London-esque street...
...complete with a double decker bus.
We were all really impressed with Universal Studios. We had two great days and we would definitely go back to the "entertainment capital of LA" again.
This is a view of the park from our hotel room. One night we picked up pizza and re-watched most of the Waterworld show from a room. It's pretty equal parts cheesy and amazing--they do crash an airplane.
The Universal City Walk is really great too. We didn't go to the Hard Rock, but Matt loved the Eddie Van Halen (EVH) guitar.
Before we left California we stopped at this Chik-fil-A on Sunset St. in Hollywood--just down the road from Hollywood High and the Chinese theater. Yum!
