Universal Studios

Today (Saturday 28 August) we had to wake up early to eat some breakfast and then catch our bus that would take us to West Hollywood and Universal Studios. Here U can learn about movie making and U get to see sets and other cool stuff from famous movies and TV series. We had to be there early cause it's a really popular attraction and it's Saturday so I guess that brings even more people.

We had to be on the bus for a while and we also had to take the subway which was fun. The park is on a hill so there is a steep road going the last way to the gates, but luckily there is a shuttle that takes U from the bottom all the way up...so we didn't have to walk ;)

It was so cool being there and just take a picture in front of the famous globe and the entrance was a big thing for me. Here I am again, doing sth I never thought I would.

The first thing we did was to go through the "House of Horror" which was loaded with a lot of scary things and "monsters" walking around and jumping from back of a curtain to scare U. It wasn't that scary and I thought there would be more from horror movies but I barely recognized anything.

There was a group of girls and boys, in our ages I think, who walked in front of us and they were so scared. They screamed and run back all the time. Once, they stepped on my foot and that hurt really bad...silly!!

After that we came out to the Fast and Furious part where we could see some of the cars they actually used in the movies. Pretty cool!

We came to the animated area where we met Spongebob and Curious George...of course we took a picture with them ;)

Here we did the Shrek 4D adventure and it was a 3D movie where the chairs were moving and they splashed water on us ;) It was really cool and felt really alive.

Next we went to stand in line for the famous Studio tour that takes U down among the studio hangars and the screen sets. U don't see when they're making a movie but U get to see set pieces and all different kind of fronts. For example we went down Wisteria Lane where they play Desperate Housewives, we saw the Whoville city from the Grinch, a set from World of Wars and when we came to the set of Jaws we were attacked by the mechanical shark they were using in the movies. We also got to experience a flood and we almost got attacked by the guy from Phsyco. When we were in a tunnel, and in the middle of a earthquake with the roof falling in, water rush down towards us and a train crashing next to us, our train broke. There were some electrical device that had broke cause of all the shaking with the train so it didn't want to start again. So we had to sit there in the dark tunnel until the mechanics came and fixed it so that we could drive out of the tunnel and then change train in case it would collapse again. Some extra excitement to our tour ;)

The coolest thing on the whole ride was the "360 3D King Kong" experience. We drove in to a giant globe and then stopped in there. All around us was canvas where they showed a 3D clip of King Kong saving us from two T-Rex. At the same time the tracks were moving, there were air and water coming at us when the moment was right and there were the coolest sound system ever. There were things going on everywhere so it really felt like being in the middle of the action. I mean, while King Kong took care of one of the T-Rex on one side, the other one would prepare to attack us on the other side, they were on top of the train and pulled away (a virtual) cart of the train. So cool! One of the most incredible things I've ever experienced.

When the tour was over, we went to see the Water world show which was awesome!! The story is that the world was flooded and now the humans live on floating forts and tries to find the last reminding piece of land. Of course there is one good side and one evil so they are fighting about it. During this they make all different kinds of cool water stunts like going on waterskiis after a jet ski, jumps from high heights, going on small boats and get set on fire and dive in. There were also a plane that came from nowhere and just crashed in the pool. Really cool!

Before the show started, three of the actors had the job of getting the audience ready for the show....so they threw water at us. There were these certain splashing zones and those people got really wet. Me and Kadda were just in the end of one so we didn't got so wet, but there were people who got soaked ;)

They had some rides at the park as well, we only went on The Mummy and Jurassic Park. It was fun and that made us really looking forward to our visit at the amusement park 6 flags in a couple of days.

After a long day with a lot of fun and cool stuff we left the park and before we took the bus home we checked all the stores and bought some souvenirs.

It was late when we came home and we just grabbed a sandwich at Subway and then I tried to be on my computer for a while but it doesn't want to connect to the Internet at the hostel so it's not so much fun.

Kadda thought we could do the Universal Studios in half a day, pfew what was she thinking? Now it was nice to say goodnight cause I felt in my legs that they had done a lot of walking today ;)

Miss U all!

Love Sandra