theme park weekend

Ahoy,

A's family came down to visit for a weekend. We all went to Universal Studios to check out the new Harry Potter World. The weather stayed gloomy all day, which was a huge shock to me. It usually clears up, but it rained/ drizzled for most of the day. Just the day before I had heard on the radio that California declared El Nino a wash, kaput for the year. We all tried to make the best of it nonetheless. The first ride we went on was probably the most intense of 3d motion simulator rides. Everybody walked out of there, and you could tell that they just got destroyed.

The lines were crazy. We waited 85 minutes for that first ride. And even the gift shops was wait times for the lines. If you're waiting 50 minutes to go into the wand shop, you better be buying a wand. Nuts! Nonetheless, there is a nice spirit of magic in the air, and I think the weather probably added to it. UK is like that most of the year.

We ate at a Japanese place at Universal Citywalk, zipped to Glendale for doughnuts and called it a day. We cleared out their green Teagan and Sara flavour.

The following day we made it out to Palos Verdes to go to a park that the RRS claimed to be one of his favorites despite only having been once. And the one we ended up going to was not the one he was thinking of.

Vietnamese was on the docket for dinner, surprisingly having a menu so expansive and diverse that it was able to please everyone at the table. We topped it off with quite possibly one of the best boba places any of us had ever been to. Everyone cried tears of remorse as we stepped out because we were likely never to return because it is so far, far away.

despondently deprived,
jt