Panem et circenses et aqua

Sunday! A whole day at Universal Studios Hollywood! After about half an hour drive from the hotel (Jesus! What an enormous city!...) we arrived at the gates and got our tickets. We started off with the Studio Tour... It took about half an hour to get on the tour bus! It finally started off with a decent history and explanation of filmmaking... The American Way. Following the 2008 fire at Universal Studios Hollywood that destroyed the King Kong attraction, it was rumored that Kong would not return. But the Australian Way came by! Peter Jackson made a wonderful remake of King Kong and offered the idea of making a 360 degrees-3D rendition for the theme park. It lasts only 3 minutes but it's pretty thrilling and funny. Meaning most screamed their heads off, I laughed off mine. We still could see some remains of the Halloween Horror Nights in between the sets, which it more interesting. Two hours later we did the some of the other attractions. Krustyland and Shrek 4-D were ultimate fun, Terminator 2 in 3D was excellent in its build-up, the Special Effects Stage sounded promising but turned out to be Ultra-lame... Haunted House of Horrors was also lame but funny, but the best attraction was the fully live production of Waterworld! Nice pyrotechnics, hell yeah! We ate a wonderful Rib Eye at the Saddle Ranch Chop House and drove all the way back to the hotel. because tomorrow we get up at 4:30 in order to be at the airport at 5! Another thrill ride of exhaustion till we're back in the homeland.. Nighty-nite kiddies!...