Here we go again, Part 7 - Dad’s Taxi’s Best Day At Universal Studios
As the end of the holiday hurtles towards us, we still have a few things on our schedule to tick off. Tuesday is another rest and retail day, which sees us poolside for most of the day, then we drive up to the Lake Buena Vista Factory Stores for almost our last few items. I spend most of the time at this mall looking for a coupon booklet that will tip me over the edge of my dithering over one more pair of trainers at the Reebok shop, but without success. Lydia browses for a potential birthday present for herself from us, settling on a handbag and purse from Fossil. Mrs Dad’s Taxi spends her loyalty points that she has built up over the last week at OshKosh and Carters buying more clothing for our grandchildren and friends’ grandchildren, Kayleigh plays on the playground and Georgia searches desperately for free WiFi ! At our predetermined rendezvous time we all get back to the car and Lydia shows me the coupon booklet she has picked up. It’s definitely a sign that I need more trainers! So I nip back to the Reebok shop armed with a $15 coupon and grab the pair that I had already tried on and hidden, and my shopping for this holiday is complete. Well, for shoes at least.
We have developed rather too much of a liking for Denny’s burgers on this trip, and once again the vote for our tea goes that way, so after another lovely meal we manage another early night.
Wednesday is our last park day, and today we are doing Universal Studios. Having seen how empty the park was on Monday we take our time this morning, going via Golden Corral for another breakfast, and today I’m feeling fine and really enjoy it. Whilst at the omelette bar I was mentally writing for this report my description of the remarkably rude American lady who was in front of me, but several months have passed and I’ve calmed down now, so she will escape my written wrath.
On arrival at the Universal parking garage, and having coughed up another twenty bucks, we are pleased to find it just as empty as it was earlier this week. It’s not long before we’re at the park entrance.
I have two objectives today - watch The Blues Brothers at least once, and go on the Minion ride. When we were last here the Blues Brothers was rained off, and The Minions was only weeks away from opening, so I’m pleased to say the weather looked promising for the Blues Brothers show, and Minions was very much up and running.
I took a lot of photos today, I will warn you now that this report may need several parts. Hopefully from the photos you can get a feel for how quiet it was here today. For starters poor Dora and Diego had no one with them so Kayleigh ran over and said Hola.
And I will confess that we had no idea who Diego was, but Google saves the day again.
We all love Scooby Doo, so this photo had to be taken
Kayleigh absolutely loves Curious George, and also loves getting wet, so first place we go is the Curious George Goes To Town playground. On the way she is thrilled to see George himself
along with Woody Woodpecker, but as Kayleigh was born after 1975 she has no idea who the big bird is !
Whilst Kayleigh runs around and gets very wet, we sit and watch the world go by and get hotter and hotter, so I go in search of the drinks re-fill machines, having brought our cup from Monday’s visit. The cup is chipped, (as in micro-chipped,not as in a chip in a china cup) and can be reactivated for another day of use, I think it was $7 for another day of unlimited drinks. My search takes much longer than I anticipated, but on my way I wander into Springfield
So I decide that’s our next destination, once Kayleigh has had enough of the playground. Meanwhile I continue my quest for the drinks station.
I’ll also continue this trip report below, to get more photos in…………..
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