Wednesday 28 August 2013

Day 14 Universal studios and islands of adventure

Quick update today as we are packing for our flights home tomorrow morning.

After a bit of a slow start, and with no plans made for today, Stephen and I got up for a quick swim. After some indecision we finally settled on missing breakfast and heading straight for Universal Studios.   We arrived at the entrance about 11.

Our first ride was The Simpsons followed by Men in Black.  Amazingly these rides were
 walk on.


We stopped at a bakery for some filled croissants for breakfast,  then leaving Stephen as bag boy, we went on The Mummy.  As this was also walk on Keith and Sarah had a second go.

With a wait time showing of 45 minutes we decided to queue for Transformers.   It was actually only 30 mins.



We had wanted to do minions again too but 55 mins was just too long.  Terminator was our next choice but the next show was not for another 45 mins, so we decided to give it a miss and head instead for a quick visit to Islands of Adventure..

A 5 minute walk and we were at the park entrance.

The Hulk was showing a 5 min wait so that seemed a good place to start.  We dropped the bags and cameras in a locker and joined the very short queue - we've not used the lockers on any previous visits as always had non riders with us before, but they were brilliant at Universal, free and operated with finger prints).


Dr Doom was supposed to be next but we decided a 30 min wait for a 20 second ride wasn't worth it, however Spiderman was also showing 30 mins and that sounded fair.  Actual wait time was 15 min.
Feeling that we had managed to do more today than we had expected it was time for a quick look round some of the shops before we headed back to the car.

Stopped at publix to pick up some biscuits for the flight then back to villa for another swim snd some packing.

Dinner tonight was at the Outback Steakhouse for a Bloomin Onion - no pics unfortunately as had left memory card in netbook while blogging and had forgotten to put it back :( also Keith had left his phone in the villa so no backup either!

Can't believe our trip is nearly over. 

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