robbo and leeazaa’s travel adventures

Orlando is like Las Vegas for families where instead of paying through the nose at the pokies, you pay through the sweat glands with the saturating humidity. There’s nothing like stepping out of your nice, air conditioned hotel room at 7:30 am to the smell of water in the air thanks to the 110% humidity.

Leeane appropriately standing where Australia roughly is

We made our way down the road to Universal Studios today, which actually consists of two separate parks one of which concentrates more on the ‘theatrical’ rides. Theatrical rides seem to be a bit hit and miss as some of them turn out to not be ‘rides’ at all but rather a handful of d-grade actors leading you around a few darkened rooms. Others have the same elaborate build up, but they pump you into a roller-coaster at the end of it for a quick getaway. I’m probably being too critical but when you line up for 20 minutes in the stinking humidity you kind of expect more.

You can see the humidity

Fortunately there are some awesome thrill rides scattered around the parks which don’t disappoint. Some of the stand out rides include, ‘The IQ Dropper’, ‘The Up Chucker’ and ‘The Potential Lawsuit’ all of which jerk you around like a killer whale tenderising a seal pup. Maybe we are both getting old or maybe the rides are just getting more insane but we definitely felt like we had sea legs after each ride and had to take a couple minutes to let our lunch settle between rides.

the spaghetti loop roller coaster

Back to the Future - delorean

All in all Universal Studios was mostly crowd-free so getting onto all the rides was more or less painless, the only bad point was that a bunch of the rides were closed or under repair. Needless to say Leeane did what Scot’s do best and lodged a complaint with them.

Simpsons Ride

wooooo

We are off to Kenndy Space centre tomorrow and an airboat tour over the Everglades, it should be a hoot. Apparently they have a Launch Simulator which should really push our internal organs into strange new places. Lawyers on standby…

Rob

Tags: orlando, theme park