Today is our last full day in Florida, so instead of eating breakfast in, we went out to Perkins for breakfast. Ray had a waffle and I got to try something different - a potato pancake stuffed with scrambled eggs and ham, served with applesauce and fruit. It was very good.
After breakfast we headed over to Universal Studios. This park was a lot of fun, more our speed than the Universal Islands of Adventure. The rides in Islands of Adventure seem to be at 2 extremes, either kiddie rides or roller coasters. Universal Studios has more 3-D rides, simulators and shows.
We got to a Disaster movie making show, Shrek 4-D, Twister, the Blues Brothers Show, and a Beetlejuice Graveyard Rock 'n Roll Show.
In the "Disaster!" show, they pick people from the audience to play bit parts in a movie they are making. First they selected a little boy, then the M.C. asked for a grandmother. Guess who he looked at? ME!! I guess it's my gray hair. He then selected about 4 others and had us all go to the stage. My part was to sit on a garden stool and pretend I was digging in the soil with a small hoe, then look up in the sky as if something wonderful was coming down. At the end they showed us the edited movie trailer, with each of us in for a few seconds. I appeared hoeing and looking up in the sky, then getting blasted to smithereens.
We ended the day with dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe, then when for a drive around the area to see how it has changed over the years. Over the past 30 plus years, the area around Kissimmee and Lake Buena Vista has changed drastically. Kissimmee and Rt 192 used to be the center of things, along with a short stretch of International Drive. Over the years, International Drive has expanded and developed, Rt 535 has grown and Rt 192 has declined. I wish I had my old photos with me to show the before and after images.
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