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Spring Break – Universal Studios

Ok, I was lazy when it came to posting over spring break and had pretty much no internet connection at all in Florida, so I'm going to post the happenings in chunks over the next few days if I can get around to it - if not, it might take a bit longer.

Universal Studios was perfect. It was literally like 75 degrees in the morning and 80 and sunny for the rest of the day. Since Spring Break wasn't really in full swing for the whole nation (and apparently not many people go to Universal Studios on Monday), the longest wait we had was somewhere around 30 minutes for some haunted house thingy.

We hit all the usual spots. I went to Curious George's crazy city in commemoration of the absent Kevin Rey and attempted to pour gigantic buckets of water on unsuspecting dry people. If you haven't visited that place, it's seriously the best place in Universal Studios. Don't worry about the fact that you'll look like a total idiot traversing the jungle of metal pipes spurting out water with a bunch of little kids. Seriously. The weird looks are worth it.

Toward the end of the day we visited the giant Dr. Seuss area which is absolutely incredible to just about anyone who grew up on the books...which I assume is everyone. We acted like little kids again, crawled through the little theme mazes, played in the houses, posed with the characters. There was this maze that you could crawl through and mess with all of the animals within. Really interactive, really hilarious.It was amazing.

Finally we hit the Mummy one last time. Thanks to the fact that the park was closing in something like 20 minutes the guys in charge let us run through the line four times to get on the ride immediately. It was amazing and that ride is seriously awesome.

Overall, it was a great day.

I couldn't fit this picture in but I thought it deserved to be posted.