Memorial Weekend

Alright peasants, what did you do this weekend? Enough about you this is about me, so I will tell you, we were supposed to go camping but the weather was supposed to rain, so we decided about 7:30pm Friday night to drive down to LA and go to Universal Studios. ooooooooohhh I hear you saying, yes its true, we stayed in a pretty nice hotel in Hollywood to which we arrived at around 4am in the morning grabbed a a few hours of sleep then off we went to Universal.

Now I have done Disney before and Magic Mountain, but I have to say this was my favorite, I loved all the special effect rides, Jurassic Park was awesome, we went on it twice, yes twice I say as the park wasn't too busy. My favorite ride though I have to say was the Studio tour, having never been on or in a studio, I was fascinated, for example, did you know that the backdrop for Wysteria Lane from Desperatete Housewives is the same backdrop used for many other movies such as 'The Burbs' I had a blast, if you haven't been I highly recommend it. It is nto a huge park but that is good, too many rides can e overwhelming. Another highlight was they had a Fast and the Furious exhibiition with a cut out of Vin Diesel, I trid to grab it to take him home with me, but alas was stopped at the gates.

On the way back to the hotel though we were pulled over by the LAPD, talk about poopin my
pants, all I could think of was that we were going to be on Cops. Apparently, the valet had turned off my automatic lights and so we were driving with lights, great!!!! I have to say though they were very pleasant whilst they gave Tim a sobriety test, which he passed I might add. We felt kinda stupid, how could we not have known we had no lights on, well in our defense, I have never turned them off since the day I bought the car almost 2 years ago, and the interior lights were on, oh well. Tim and the cop swapped some army stories and they let us on our merry way.

We decided to pop to Knotts Berry Farm the next day seeing as we were so close, fun park, again not busy. I have been after Tim to have a family protrait done for a couple of years but nooooo, we cant have a nice classy pic, he wants to get dresed up in western wear and have a pic took of that, which I will scan and post in the next couple of days so you can have a laugh. On our last day we drove down the Hollywood walk of fame, which brings me to my ironic story. All weekend we drove through Hollywood, their are lights every block and of course lots of traffic and we always hit every red light, so instead of walking down Hollywood Blvd I said "lets drive" figuring we could hang out the window and take a quicker look without abusing my poor tired old feet, frankly I was knackered. Wouldn't you know it though, we drove down, no traffic and every light was green. WHY DO THINGS LIKE THT HAPPEN?? Hope you all had fun, I certainly did.