9/11/2009

Travel blog: Monday, 31st of August

Another mind blower, now that I'm recapping everything that happened… Still at the LAX. It's now a couple minutes past 5PM. My flight isn't until 9:16PM so I've got some time. Yesterday I treated myself and spent a whole day in Universal City theme park. It was amazing. But what exactly was so amazing? After I visited all the attractions I already knew I decided I would not stop there and just go to the cinema but that I would go on and visit some of the attractions I haven't before. The Mummy, The Simpson's Ride, Shrek4D, …

Although the line at The Simpson's Ride was so long that I waited for at least an hour to actually get into the vehicle, I was astonished. The best ride ever!! People, it actually takes you into a whole another world! And I'm not just saying that! It's like you're INSIDE the show. Forget about Shrek 4D or the Terminator . This ride was in a class of its own. And all the time I was waiting in the line I was thinking; “Should I just get to some other ride or wait it out?”. I waited and it was absolutely worth it. The other amazement was The Mummy rollercoaster. At first I scratched it off my list but then I heard from some people passing by that it's even faster that idontknowhat. So, that's why I thought; “Hm, perhaps it's worth a try.”

Frankly, I thought, that it was another skeleton wrapped in mummy wrappings-dropping out of the ceiling- roaring-dark-dull-ride. But what those people were saying changed my mind. And was I in for a rush or what. If you ask me, the whole ride lasted for about a minute. Perhaps it was longer than that, but the speed was breathtaking. I screamed my lungs out! And of course, at the end of the ride, when I was happily in a most ravishing peaceful moment of that entire day, the whole thing stuck, and the staff had to get us out of the carts one by one manually – how's that for »I'm never getting in that cart again« thought? But surprisingly, some people wanted to go again! Well, it's a free country. Luckily it was theme park closing time so the staff shut the whole thing down anyway. All's well that ends well.