The desire of our children has been heard, so on today´s agenda is Universal Studios for 236 $. We begin to wait after waiting at the ticket office of the trainride further, but the Studio Tour is quite interesting then. There is much self-promotion for past and upcoming movies, but the journey combines information and entertainment quite entertaining. Some frequently used scenes for Western shoots or urban scenes of the 19th century are beefed up with effects (flooding, 3-D-Godzilla attack etc.).
Universal Studios are now mainly an amusement park and for the rest of the day the relationship between entertainment and wait is no longer acceptable. We wait 40 to 60 minutes for each 5-10 minutes 3 D movie or cruise terminator, Shrek and Jurassic Park. Now I had embezzled forgiveness, when Shrek almost the fourth "D" which involves (spits the donkey, the donkey sneezes etc.) via a nozzle in the front seat wet to inject the visitors to appropriate scenes.
Overall this site is almost as bizarre as Las Vegas since also various thematic scenes are built and you go 50 meters in an artificial London to land at the next corner at an Italian piazza. The Americans seem to enjoy themselves but in droves and reduce waiting times with sustained food and drinks for $24.95 throughout the day as "all you can eat and drink" is available. That you do not get too hot during all your eating efforts, almost all surfaces are cooled with massive water evaporator. The water consumption of Universal Studios is probably as high as that of a major Austrian capital.
At my insistence, we just make it for sunset at Venice Beach or the views of individual rays that bumped Malibu at the other end of the Bay. This is a very impressive image and I round off the visual impression with a dip in the Pacific Ocean. Given a probably identical air and water temperature of just over 20 degrees I must overcome a bit, but get richly rewarded. The waves are high and I enjoy the blend of swimming, surfing, fighting against the waves and getting sucked in the ocean immensely. To have reasonably withstood the element completely out of breath, but very pleased I leave the water and we can dedicate the next fire alarm in the hotel. Again that reception tells us it was false alarm, however two stopping fire engines lower a little their credibility.
We decide to end the day in the restaurant next door offering Argentine-Spanish Italian cuisine. We hear from the Co-owner from Palestine about his stays in Sweden, Indonesia and New Zealand, about his daughter in San Francisco and his perception that have burned the kitchen door in the Erwin. Furthermore we speak with the Australian whose father is Austrian, and the Americans who lived in Innsbruck and by the way enjoy the good cuisine. The rib steaks together with Chinese food in San Francisco are culinary by far the best during these three weeks. Then both my mood and my Constitution is enough for the next fire alarm.
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