It was a fun ride I admit, but the after-effect was kind of brutal. Elda and I felt nauseous while Aymee felt extremely fine.
As a result to that, we all had to rest for a while. Following our nauseous feeling, we decided to see an attraction that was more relaxing and didn't involve any graphic or motion effects. We chose the New Special Effect Stage. The show was super funny! I'd seen this before but this new version of the show was even much more exciting!
Moving on...it seems like we had got on to every rides on the lower lot, and now it was time for us to descend to the lower lot! There weren't much attractions to see down there, with only three attractions. Two of them are realistic rides, not 3D/4D movie or simulator like we did before. Aymee determined to get on to Revenge of The Mummy Ride but Elda and I were still getting over the nausea, so we decided to wait for Aymee.
Elda was an avid fan of Egyptian mythology, so she was ecstatic to take picture with 'Anubis'.
Anubis was being nice to Elda...but wait till you see what he was being to me
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| See? OMG he pulled my hair. Mean. |
Shortly after Aymee got out, the three of us went on to the next ride which was located right across the Mummy ride. It was Jurassic Park: River Adventure! I vividly remember what the ride was like.
Universal Studios was just opened that morning back in 2009 and my parents and I were the first riders. Yes, just the three of us on the 16-people-capacity seats. It was like a private ride! When the boat plunged down, I could only hear the sound of my panicky mom screaming (my dad wasn't fond of screaming in thrill rides) and I was too numb to scream.
Anyway...back to the topic. This time, it was different. So glad that finally I got to feel the sensation of this thrill ride with 16 people on board. Compared to the Mummy ride or any other adrenaline-rush-triggering rides, this one was more relaxing. Why? Because we basically just got on to this yellow boat and entered Jurassic Park. We were even offered by the sight of the animatronics dinosaurs. I was even accidentally sprayed with water on the face by an animatronic velociraptor.
The drop wasn't as bad as I thought it'd be (and I got to hear a lot of people screaming this time!!!). Aymee gave a tip to reduce the free-fall feeling, which really helped! And the drop turned out to be not really high as I thought. As a result, I came up with a plan to try this ride again (getting addicted to it), but then there were still many rides to try so trying Jurassic Park again would be a waste of time.
Before getting back to the upper lot, the three of us bought some snacks to munch first.
Next up, we were back to the upper lot to catch with Universal Studios' famed Waterworld show. The show was awesome! Too bad we didn't get to sit on the soaked area. We had anticipated on getting splashed or wet in Universal Studios today that even we brought a substitute shirt.
We also realized that we hadn't taken a picture together with cast character. So when a dracula character passed by, we immediately asked him to take a picture with us together. The cast character's skin literally glittered under the sunlight. I tried not to mistake him as Edward Cullen in disguise.
The last attraction of the day was Terminator 2: 3D. It was the last show of the day and the line was long. Look at what Aymee and I were doing in the line.
Okay, even though we weren't recommended to wear our 3D glasses before the show, we tried them on and see how they looked on us.
Since Elda didn't get to go inside, I decided to share the story here.
We then entered a room that turned out to be the pre-show room. A newsticker controlled by a computer greeted us, making an impression as if a line of text appeared on it was talking to us. But things were getting even more annoying when the text began to intimidate us, saying “You suck!” when we didn't cheer out loud. Aymee complained. “We're being bullied by technology!” After all, that's what Terminator story is all about, where in the future, humans will be controlled by machinery and technology.
A lady then came up and introduced herself as Kimberly Duncan (a real person). At first she appeared as a nice lady everyone would put their trust on. She said a lot of 'super' words in every ten seconds.
Kimberly introduced herself as a representative of a fictional company featured in Terminator movies – a company which promised to offer humans with various advanced technology to make real life feel so easy. In the middle of the company's promotional video, suddenly a woman appeared on it and interrupted the video.
She was Sarah Connor, who asked everyone in the pre-show room to not believe in the company's offer since it would gradually destroy the mankind. The company was said to sabotage human life with all the offer. Meanwhile, Kimberly was panic and she tried to call the security to capture Sarah who appeared on the video. Finally we were led to believe that Kimberly was actually one of the “bad guys”.
The main attraction was uber cool! It involved 3D movie, simulator effect on our seats, and also live show with real casts appearing on the stage. An actress who played Sarah Connor and an actor who played John Connor, popped up and pointed the gun at Kimberly. The cool part also involved when the Arnold Schwarzenegger character on the screen “magically” appeared on the stage followed with a plume of smoke (of course, it wasn't Arnold himself who appeared live on stage).
With all the advanced technology involved, it was so far one of the most impressive shows we saw in Universal Studios.
After the show, we met up with Elda again and we decided to do a little shopping now. In the end, I bought a fridge magnet for my mom.
The clock showed 8 pm and we suddenly realized that the last shuttle to Universal City station would take off that time. We hurriedly went to the shuttle stop and caught the last shuttle back to the subway station.
Since it was too late for us to have dinner around Hollywood area, we decided to go back to Little Tokyo and see what we could have for dinner. We ended up having dinner in Kouraku. Elda and I had curry rice while Aymee had a bowl of ramen.
What was interesting is, we all got to communicate with the Japanese lady who served us. Elda spoke some Japanese words fluently. Aymee also said a fluent “Arigatou gozaimasu.” I tried myself as well :). The lady was amazed by our amateur ability!
Then we went back to the hotel and bought some Japanese snacks from the restaurant for our breakfast tomorrow.
Thank you Universal Studios Hollywood for the wonderful experience!!!!!! XD
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