Cast: Me (Steve)- 14 with two parents
Mom- Mother of me and my sister
Dad- Father of me and my sister
I had scheduled a wake up call today in hope that my father does not hang up the phone again like he did yesterday morning. This time the wake up call was from Betty Boop. I thought it would be better than the rugrats. I woke up at 7:00am and got dress, brushed teeth, and went down to Cafe` Eexpresso for some breakfast. I got me and my ma a bagel, crossiant, and a pint of orange juice. I was in shock when the guy said it would be $7.50!!! Geeze, I could get a dozen of bagels for that much money at home.
After breakfast mom and I went to catch the next water taxi when I parculiar man asked us if his room key card looked like ours because he said the water taxi guy asked him for his card yesterday and couldn't get on. I thought of it to be a bit odd because never has a water taxi driver ever asked me or anyone I saw for their card. But he took out his card and showed it to us. It didn't even look anything remotely like out PBH key card. So we got to the entrance at IOA and the lady puts our new tickets through the machine and we are relieved to find out that they are good and work. Thank you Guest Services!!! Anyway, the park wasn't open yet and everyone was waiting at the entrance to Superhero island. Most people went to the hulk first, but when they heard it was closed down for the day, they went straight to Spidey and thus began the 75 minute wait for it. Luckily I wasn't headed there and I had the PBH room key to get me to the front of the line. So me and mom go the opposite way to Dueling Dragons and amazingly people already have their express tickets. The express line was long, and I was very disapointed that the key card didn't work as good as last year. After that, my mom and I did flying unicorn. My mom dosen't like the rooler coasters like Dueling Dragons and the Hulk. But I almost had to drag her on the Unicorn. After unicorn we headed to Jurassic Park River Adventure. I can't believe my mom went on that 85 foot drop!!! It was 10:30 and time for Poisidon's Fury to open up. After a grueling 45 minutes waiting in the Universal Express line they finally let us in. The new show is kind of like the old one. Same water vortex, same ancient temple. It was o.k. but wouldn't do it again. It was getting cloudy and looked like it was going to rain. I wanted to get Triceratops encounter over with so before it rained we went there. As we are walking down the jungle path it starts pouring down raining and we get out our umbrellas. Luckily we find this little sheltered waiting area with a bench and a nice view of the plants and shrubs in this breathtaking forest. I can't believe some people didn't bring umbrellas or ponchos. Most of the people who did have ponchos had MICKEY MOUSE ponchos. I'd be soooooooo embarest. That's like wearing a Burger King shirt to McDonalds.
After the rain lets up a bit we sprint over to Blondies Home of the Dagwood for some lunch. This place has really, really, really good sandwhiches. I got the dagwood and my mom got the tootsie. We both got potato salad wich was the best I have ever had. A bag of chips, sodas. and a Bell Bottum Brownie for dessert. The brownie has whip cream on it and mini m&m's. Making me hungry as I write. Also this place has a very good a/c. If it gets hot out I recommend coming here. After lunch we walk over to Island Skipper tours and the tour was corny and chessey. The tour guide would tell all these really bad and really unfunny jokes. And thought his boat was a plane. Then head back to the hotel to take 2nd shift with my mom's entrance tickets to US and IOA. When I got to the hotel I took a 2 hour nap and got up, went to the water taxi and did a very boring Terminator 2-3D. The lady guide did not use the word SUPER enough! Literaly. ANyways after that we headed over to IOA, I didn't think my dad could get in with my mom's ticket, but he did!!!! I he could do that I could bring 7 friends through the park with just two tickets or have them come in all at once. Just after the person enters hand the ticket over through the gate to the other person so he can get in and dot cycle all over again. Hey Coaster FEV and Earl I beat the park at tickets!!!!! I thought IOA would be smarter than that.
So when I com back to the park I see that the Hulk is open and is working. I was so happy, but I had to eat dinner first. I made reservations for Mythos earlier on in the day for 6:00pm and thought that there would be a lot more people there. But only like three groups were in the place. They had some really good choices. It was hard to choose. I was either going to get the Balsamic Chicken or the Rissuto of the day. I decided to get the Rissuto. When it cam out I thought it didn't look that filling until I started eating. The dish had a little mound of rissuto rice in the middle, rolled up peices of chicken around it and that was all over lobster bisk. When they brang it out it look like somthing off of the World's Greates Chefs on the Discovery Channel. By the way did I mention it was delious!! Kudos to the Executive chef and the Second Cook. I had to save room for the Praline Cheese cake roll up. Great. It was like a cinnamon surgar strudel with cheese cake in the middle and a scoop a vinallia ice cream. My dad got the chicken club and the bananna brownie. I thought the brownie looked better than mine though.
After dinner went strainght to the hulk and used my key card to bypass the 45 minute line. I had to show my card to 3 attendents and they looked at it very carfully, i guess there must be some fakes out there. I love the Hulk and I think it is my favorite coaster. After the Hulk we went to Spiderman and my dad thought it was the best ride he ever went on. Next was, Doctor Doom WITH MY DAD!! When you are that up high you can see the construction on the Royal Pacif taking place. The rooms look small but they look like they are making some major progress. My dad almost threw up, even before he got on. We finished IOA and went back to US where we rode Kong and MIB twice. Stopped at alkatraz smoothie place to get a pick lemonade freeze and dad got orange tangerine. Great freezies. I went back to the hotel early to see the Dive in Movie. It was really neat they had a movie screen put up at the end of the villa pool and they had rafts an noodle in the pool. Great picture and great surrond sound. Near the entrance they had coke and cocktails and cotton candy and pop corn at movie prices. The movie was free and they were showing Jurassic Park 1. The movie ended at 10:30 and the pool stayed open until then too. But the beach pool closed at its regular time. After movie went to bed.
Day 4: Good Bye PBH, Rain, Rain, Tropical storm. Will follow!
Mom- Mother of me and my sister
Dad- Father of me and my sister
I had scheduled a wake up call today in hope that my father does not hang up the phone again like he did yesterday morning. This time the wake up call was from Betty Boop. I thought it would be better than the rugrats. I woke up at 7:00am and got dress, brushed teeth, and went down to Cafe` Eexpresso for some breakfast. I got me and my ma a bagel, crossiant, and a pint of orange juice. I was in shock when the guy said it would be $7.50!!! Geeze, I could get a dozen of bagels for that much money at home.
After breakfast mom and I went to catch the next water taxi when I parculiar man asked us if his room key card looked like ours because he said the water taxi guy asked him for his card yesterday and couldn't get on. I thought of it to be a bit odd because never has a water taxi driver ever asked me or anyone I saw for their card. But he took out his card and showed it to us. It didn't even look anything remotely like out PBH key card. So we got to the entrance at IOA and the lady puts our new tickets through the machine and we are relieved to find out that they are good and work. Thank you Guest Services!!! Anyway, the park wasn't open yet and everyone was waiting at the entrance to Superhero island. Most people went to the hulk first, but when they heard it was closed down for the day, they went straight to Spidey and thus began the 75 minute wait for it. Luckily I wasn't headed there and I had the PBH room key to get me to the front of the line. So me and mom go the opposite way to Dueling Dragons and amazingly people already have their express tickets. The express line was long, and I was very disapointed that the key card didn't work as good as last year. After that, my mom and I did flying unicorn. My mom dosen't like the rooler coasters like Dueling Dragons and the Hulk. But I almost had to drag her on the Unicorn. After unicorn we headed to Jurassic Park River Adventure. I can't believe my mom went on that 85 foot drop!!! It was 10:30 and time for Poisidon's Fury to open up. After a grueling 45 minutes waiting in the Universal Express line they finally let us in. The new show is kind of like the old one. Same water vortex, same ancient temple. It was o.k. but wouldn't do it again. It was getting cloudy and looked like it was going to rain. I wanted to get Triceratops encounter over with so before it rained we went there. As we are walking down the jungle path it starts pouring down raining and we get out our umbrellas. Luckily we find this little sheltered waiting area with a bench and a nice view of the plants and shrubs in this breathtaking forest. I can't believe some people didn't bring umbrellas or ponchos. Most of the people who did have ponchos had MICKEY MOUSE ponchos. I'd be soooooooo embarest. That's like wearing a Burger King shirt to McDonalds.
After the rain lets up a bit we sprint over to Blondies Home of the Dagwood for some lunch. This place has really, really, really good sandwhiches. I got the dagwood and my mom got the tootsie. We both got potato salad wich was the best I have ever had. A bag of chips, sodas. and a Bell Bottum Brownie for dessert. The brownie has whip cream on it and mini m&m's. Making me hungry as I write. Also this place has a very good a/c. If it gets hot out I recommend coming here. After lunch we walk over to Island Skipper tours and the tour was corny and chessey. The tour guide would tell all these really bad and really unfunny jokes. And thought his boat was a plane. Then head back to the hotel to take 2nd shift with my mom's entrance tickets to US and IOA. When I got to the hotel I took a 2 hour nap and got up, went to the water taxi and did a very boring Terminator 2-3D. The lady guide did not use the word SUPER enough! Literaly. ANyways after that we headed over to IOA, I didn't think my dad could get in with my mom's ticket, but he did!!!! I he could do that I could bring 7 friends through the park with just two tickets or have them come in all at once. Just after the person enters hand the ticket over through the gate to the other person so he can get in and dot cycle all over again. Hey Coaster FEV and Earl I beat the park at tickets!!!!! I thought IOA would be smarter than that.
So when I com back to the park I see that the Hulk is open and is working. I was so happy, but I had to eat dinner first. I made reservations for Mythos earlier on in the day for 6:00pm and thought that there would be a lot more people there. But only like three groups were in the place. They had some really good choices. It was hard to choose. I was either going to get the Balsamic Chicken or the Rissuto of the day. I decided to get the Rissuto. When it cam out I thought it didn't look that filling until I started eating. The dish had a little mound of rissuto rice in the middle, rolled up peices of chicken around it and that was all over lobster bisk. When they brang it out it look like somthing off of the World's Greates Chefs on the Discovery Channel. By the way did I mention it was delious!! Kudos to the Executive chef and the Second Cook. I had to save room for the Praline Cheese cake roll up. Great. It was like a cinnamon surgar strudel with cheese cake in the middle and a scoop a vinallia ice cream. My dad got the chicken club and the bananna brownie. I thought the brownie looked better than mine though.
After dinner went strainght to the hulk and used my key card to bypass the 45 minute line. I had to show my card to 3 attendents and they looked at it very carfully, i guess there must be some fakes out there. I love the Hulk and I think it is my favorite coaster. After the Hulk we went to Spiderman and my dad thought it was the best ride he ever went on. Next was, Doctor Doom WITH MY DAD!! When you are that up high you can see the construction on the Royal Pacif taking place. The rooms look small but they look like they are making some major progress. My dad almost threw up, even before he got on. We finished IOA and went back to US where we rode Kong and MIB twice. Stopped at alkatraz smoothie place to get a pick lemonade freeze and dad got orange tangerine. Great freezies. I went back to the hotel early to see the Dive in Movie. It was really neat they had a movie screen put up at the end of the villa pool and they had rafts an noodle in the pool. Great picture and great surrond sound. Near the entrance they had coke and cocktails and cotton candy and pop corn at movie prices. The movie was free and they were showing Jurassic Park 1. The movie ended at 10:30 and the pool stayed open until then too. But the beach pool closed at its regular time. After movie went to bed.
Day 4: Good Bye PBH, Rain, Rain, Tropical storm. Will follow!
