Monday, March 10, 2014

florida trip - day three

Today's park: Universal Studios

Our hotel offered a free shuttle to both Universal and the Disney parks.  Even though we had a rental car, we decided to take the shuttle this morning.  However, the shuttle for Universal never came (or if it did, we missed it).  We waited until 20 minutes after it was supposed to be there, then finally gave up and took our car instead.


We didn't take a lot of pictures at this park because, frankly, it was really boring.  I was pretty disappointed in it actually.  There was one roller coaster (which made my head feel like it was going to explode and felt like we had been internally decapitated).  It was intense.  There was a Mummy ride which was kind of similar to the Indiana Jones ride at Disneyland. and a 3D Transformers ride that was pretty awesome!  Other than those three, the other rides were really stupid.  And not really "rides."  Basically you sat down in a chair that jiggled and watched a 3D screen that spit water at you at different times.

Lame.

We ate lunch at the quick service restaurant in the Simpsons land, and it was pretty much the grossest food either of us have either eaten.  I had a veggie sandwich on a soggy bun with brown guacamole, and Julia got a burger that had obviously been sitting under a heat lamp for 12 hours with some nacho cheese sauce smothered on top.

*Yack*

We ended up leaving early, hoping Tuesday would be better.

The Things that Julia fell in love with and wanted to buy but couldn't justify the price

On the way back to the hotel from the park we stopped at to big gift shops that were close to the hotel because I was on the hunt for a small glass bottle that said "Florida" on it to put the sand I had stolen yesterday at the beach in as a souvenir.  I finally found one!  Then we decided to go to the Chili's by the hotel for dinner.  Mmmm!  Chips and salsa!!

Steps walked: 15197

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