California part 6...

Tuesday morning we packed up our SUV and headed out to Universal City to visit Universal Studios. We took I-5 and found out how much traffic there was aside from rush hour - and I thought our traffic here was bad. Just not sure where everyone was going?

It was very cold and windy that morning, I guess there was some weird wind that cam through and cooled the place off. We got there later than we wanted and because of this we were ready to eat when we got there. It was so cold that we chose to sit in a different location than where we bought our food so as to sit in the sun to keep warm but we were told to leave as we didn't buy our food there. Needless to say the cold and this woman didn't start the day off right. In addition Charlie had a headache.

We ventured off to see Terminator 2 in 3D and was surprised with all the effects. Savannah was scared and didn't like the water they sprinkled on us when the glass broke in the movie. It almost felt like really glass shards too. From there we went on the Simpsons simulated roller coaster ride, it was cute but made my stomach hurt. Savannah didn't like that either and after that she was worried the rest of the time for all the rides we were going to go on. She was also very scared of the Backdraft fire exhibit but I don't blame her. Fire scares me too.

We went on the tour ride around the studios and saw a lot of the props for movies like Great Outdoors, Jaws, & How the Grinch Stole Christmas with Jim Carrey and a bunch more. The pond there they said was used for the movie Oh Brother Where Art Thou? for the scene where they were flooded...I had no idea! Charlie got soaked when they showed us the area they use for rain and flood scenes and we both thought it was pretty neat how they made the cars from the Fast & Furious movie dance around.

On the way through the park Savannah met up with some of her favorite people...she was tickled by Curious George and turned as red as a beet. We've never seen her so blushed!

Scene from War of the Worlds...remember this?

Terminator.

Savannah standing in front of the park.

Simpsons.

We didn't stay much longer after that as Charlie was very cold and most of the rest of the good rides had height requirements that were too tall for Savannah. They did have a couple shows we wanted to see but didn't want to wait and were anxious to get to Anaheim and check in our room to prepare for Disneyland the next day.

Once we got to Anaheim and checked in our room we both agreed we enjoyed the other resort better. The ones here were very nicely furnished and the resort is fairly new but it wasn't as relaxing as the other one. The people at the resort who checked us in weren't very friendly either. There was no fireplace or BBQ in our unit and there were a lot more kids, but hey we were less than 2 miles from Disneyland so what else should we expect. We had yet to find that the bed was hard and there was too much light in the bedroom but we were still comfortable.

Living room.

Living room entertainment center.

Kitchen.

Master bedroom.

Master TV and dresser.

After settling in we bought steaks and shrimp for dinner. We found it odd that the local grocery store didn't sell half dozen cartons of eggs so we had no choice but to buy a whole carton for the remaining 3 days of our trip. Dinner was good and Savannah slept with us that night as she was scared in the fold out bed of the new room.