Freaking Scary

The outside sets

Yep we made it here

With the stars of the Terminator Show

The War of the Worlds set

Water world show

Stars from waterworld - The actress on the left has appeared in Greys Anatomy

Going into King Kong

Hollywood

Love them coke lips

Abbey's tea house

Terminator 2 bike

Today has been a fantastic day - if not a little scary. By scary I mean the traffic and how long it took us to travel 30 miles this morning, Our average speed was 20 miles per hour in six lanes of traffic. Some point in the journey we decided to take the scenic route and get off the freeways. BAD IDEA. We got to see all parts of LA including, the homeless, Hollywood Boulevard, Santa Monica Boulevard, Downtown LA. All in all it took us two and a half hours to travel 35 miles to Universal Studios from our hotel in Anaheim. There were a few tense moments and some choice language as "Sandy" got lost too.

The stress was worth it though, because Universal Studios was awesome. We had a full and very fun day with lots of action. We did a behind the scenes studio tour, got to see movie and TV sets and where they film Desperate Housewives. We didn't get to see all the things available so will go back there on our last day in LA. The scary part comes in again when Richard suggested that we do the "House of Horrors". I didn't enjoy this experience and was scared witless. My heart rate and adrenaline levels were right up there after that experience. It seemed that every actor picked on me to scare. I took quite some time to calm down after that one. We had paid a little extra for a VIP pass and that was well worth the extra money as we had the privilege of meeting the actors after the shows and see how they make the special effects.

Alex you would have enjoyed the 3d terminator show - they blew things up and made you very wet and threw the seats around to make it all feel real. Abbey you would have loved the Shrek 4D movie. Amelia you would have loved the studio tour which featured King Kong.

We had some technical problems with the studio tour and the King Kong 3D experience so got to do it four times - it wasn't third time lucky but fourth today. Apparently they have never had a tour that has had to drive through four times to get the full experience.

On our next visit we will attempt some of the rides and explore the displays a little more.

The trip home was much less stressful and only took us an hour as the traffic was a little less.

Oamaru roads are going to seem very boring after driving on the freeways in LA.

Not long till we go home and I am looking forward to seeing everyone again, and to having some proper food - I am over hotel or restaurant cooked food.