After a hectic few days, we decided to have an easy morning with a visit to the hotel pool. If you have been reading our posts you may have noticed we never take breakfast. We did – cereal bars and fruit etc. Spending 30 to 45 minutes a day going for breakfast would use up 7 – 10 hours of your holiday. Think of it as losing a whole day just eating breakfast.
Our shuttle to Universal wasn’t until 11.40 so we had plenty of time to start thinking about home. Hotdog made a Skype call to England to check everything was OK, our cats weren’t missing us and the weather has been reasonably pleasant!
Our shuttle driver was prompt and his banter was entertaining. Our plan was to spend 4 hours at the park, do a few rides we missed, pick up Hotdog’s replacement Bubba Gump baseball cap, a bit of shopping etc. But like kids in the candy shop went bonkers again!
Did Transformers, Disaster, Mummy and Shrek 4D – headed over to Islands of Adventure, hopped on HULK and Spiderman, watched the Marvel Avengers characters – their trykes were pretty cool! Got soaked on Jurassic Park River Adventure, paid $5 for the people dryer, popped into the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, did Ollivanders, the Dragon Challenge (blue not as scary as red) and the Forbidden Journey for the final time. On our way out we even managed to fit in some of the Dr. Seuss rides before getting on the HULK again.
Four hours became six, but it was time to head back or miss the shuttle, picking up a few gifts along the way and Hotdog’s Bubba Gump hat of course!
As this was our final evening we headed back to CityWalk for a few drinks at the Lone Palm and dinner at Hard Rock Cafe, which wasn’t too busy. We both had a pang of sadness as we left CityWalk for the last time. Hotdog wouldn’t look back when leaving the bright lights of Universal.
Jumped into a taxi back to our hotel for a few post-dinner drinks and TV. Hotdog fell asleep in his underwear on top of the bed, which became a regular feature of this holiday, I think he only slept under the covers on the first night!