Universal Studios – Orlando, Florida

 

Today was an early start eating some breakfast and then setting off to go to universal studios. Jo was the most excited of us all to get there.

Sean & I just arriving at Universal Studios

When we did arrive  it was very busy and there was a lot of tour groups everywhere. But when we paid for our tickets and we were eventually in we went straight to the new Simpsons ride which was very good and totally unexpected for what happens and fortunately we only had to wait 5 minutes in the queue compared to the end of the day where people were waiting 50 minutes.

We then raced to get in to the next showing of terminator 2 3D  which we all really enjoyed as it was quite unusual because it involved some actors which then merged into the 3-D film.

We had a walk around and chose to go onto Twister which was a bit of a let down really but that is comparing it to the Simpsons ride.

But we next queued for quite a while wandering in and out of many rooms for the Mummy ride, when we eventually got on to it was very good. But Simpsons was still our favourite!

We were all getting hungry by this point so we saw a nice Irish bar to eat in and Dad, Sean and I had a burger and Jo had fish & chips.

We continued on to Jaws.

Dad, Me & Sean

Which i got absolutely soaked on as the shark jumped out of the water right in front of where i was sat on the boat.

We next went to queue up for the Men in Black ride which was really interesting as we each had a little laser gun which was to shoot at any aliens we saw during the ride. Sean got the most points on this ride by shooting the most aliens.

Then we passed the kwik-e-mart so we decided to have a look inside and it was filled with lots of Simpsons souvenirs.

At this point we were all very hot so we stopped for a very large ice cream cone before continuing to queue up to go and watch Shrek 4-D which was the longest queue by far.

The new ride which they are building at the moment "Hollywood Rip Ride Rock It looks extremely good and apparently it has the largest vertical fall on it.

We all really enjoyed our day out at universal studios but after all of that walking around and quite a lot of standing we were quite glad to sit down in the car.

Overall the best ride was the Simpsons ride so we would highly recommend going on this one.

For tea we decided to go out to the pizza place as Dad had previously seen they do very very large pizzas.

Sean with large pizza

Dad, Sean and I started with chicken wings and Jo had a caser salad. When the 24 inch pizza came we were amazed.

It took a lot  of eating but we still didn’t manage to eat it all. So we had to take the remaining two slices back to the boat with us.

 

Alex Penney