Saturday 20th September 2008

[21:36 PDT]

We woke this morning to another great view as the sun rose over the Hollywood Hills.

We'd ordered a delivery breakfast this morning, which was brought up to us at 7:30am

Our plans were to head out to Universal Studios today. We've got 2 day tickets for the park so today was our best time to get a full day's outing.

Initially, I'd thought we would drive up there, but we eventually ended up catching the Metro train up there, the station's just around the corner from our hotel and it drops you off at the bottom of the U.S. car park.

Weather today was very sunny, reasonably warm too. It being a Saturday, I had expected the place to be heaving. Surprisingly, it wasn't too bad at all. It became busier towards the end of the afternoon, but for most of the rides / shows, wait times were just a few minutes.

The exception was the new Simpsons ride. We only got there towards the end of the day and the wait time there was 40 minutes. I joined the line but after 5 minutes, and not moving one foot, I gave up. Perhaps they had broken down. I'll attempt is again on our second day's visit. It'll be first thing this time though!

Finished the day off with a meal in the Hard Rock Cafe, on Citywalk. Before heading back to the hotel, via Starbucks...