Universal Studios

I had a blast today. Evan and I went to Universal Studios (in case you couldn't tell from the title), and I drove again. I'm telling you, the best time to drive on the freeway in LA is the morning of New Year's Day. It was 8:30 and there was barely any traffic. Since Evan had one of those handicap parking passes, we were able to park really close (and I mean really close; it was maybe a hundred meters to the entrance). We first went on the Revenge of the Mummy, which had technical difficulties as we were in line, but cleared up in, like, ten minutes, and then we pretty much walked right on. It was rather similar to the Indiana Jones ride in Disneyland, but Revenge was more roller coaster-like. I think I like Indiana Jones better, but we still ended up riding Revenge twice.
After that, we went to the Special Effects tour, where I acted as a volunteer for the first show of the year. I showed off my acting skills by screaming on cue, looked at tennis balls on sticks, pretended to be moving huge stones...It was awesome. Because of my heroic volunteerism, I was given a backstage tour--sort of. Moving from one room to another my fellow volunteer and I got to go via backstage, whereas the audience moved through different doors. I ended up volunteering again when no one else would for the sound effects room, where I got to operate a water sound effect on cue. Not only did I show my acting skills, I showed my techie skills as well. Aren't I cool? Oh, yeah.
I also saw a lot of the rest of the park, and I bought a nifty souvenir: a tote bag that looks like one of those placards the people hold that tell who's in the movie, what the movie is, etc. etc. I knew I'd find a souvenir that called my name. It just said, "Cat, buy me, buy me, please!" What could I do? I bought the bag.