over to the valley...

and universal studios. vince had the day off work, yah, so i had company around the park. he did the same a few years ago for disneyland and has a "system" to getting around to all the adventures with the least amount of fuss and time... of course we were there about an hour before the park opened. haha! so it was breakfast along city walk before we were let in.... woohoo!!


stop one was the new simpsons ride which was a blast.




then down the escalators for jurassic park and the mummy. i swear there was not one ride we went on where we didn't get sprayed with water.








the studio tour was great. after the fire on the backlot a couple of years ago they've rebuilt and replaced a whole lot.




this led onto the king kong portion of the studio tour. this was amazing 3D, best i've been part of. :)





the old faithful jaws.... still managed to surprise me strangely enough.



bit of a stunt show with a couple of cars.


a hitchcockian trip anyone?? this time there was even an actor who slightly resembled norman bates loading a corpse into a car. and then proceeded to chase the tour tram down the road apiece.




the plane crash from war of the worlds was next. pretty impressive. but what they've also done with the park at the moment is set it up for halloween, so there are skeletons and zombies all over the place. would be interesting to see it after hours.... woooooooo.....




the blue screen and "rocks" in front were used recently used in the new pirates of the caribbean movie. what can they do in number 4??



late lunch at bubba shrimp cafe on city walk. run forrest run.



a long day of fun. i do love l.a. especially as julie and i met angela at yoghurtland later in the evening for dessert and chatter. mmm... frozen yoghurt is icy goodness.