Well here we are again, I wish I had an amazing amount of history or info on this half of our trip but sadly it was all spent at Universal Studios Theme Parks, which in a whole are not that special historically. It opened July 7, 1990, one of the key partners was Spielberg. A funny tidbit about Universal Studios Film Company, which started in 1912, is that they are the very people that stole Oswald the Lucky Rabbit from Walt Disney, which I learned that they just got the rights back for about a year ago, they traded Universal a sports caster, yep they traded a human for a cartoon.
We went to the Harry Potter area where rode the Hogwarts Express, look through the shops and rode the rides.
Here are some of the characters we saw, Scooby, Shaggy, Daphne, Minions, Beetle Juice, Bumble Bee.
We also got to see these guys perform as the blues brothers, they did a really good job.
this was the simpsons area, I really wanted a duff beer.
they had a Moe's Tavern that looked just like the real Moe's.
Sea World, the shows here were really cute,
lots of cute tricks.
I got to feed these guys some fish, they yelled at me when I ran out.
these guys were so cute, holding hands, hugging, they were really having some fun together.
This little emperor penguin was off in a corner all buy himself looking sad, he must have been naughty and got grounded.
This was at Busch Gardens, I got to pet the Kangaroos, feed the giraffes and lorals.
the giraffes were trained to let you rub their necks, I loved it.
the birds kept screaming in my ears when I wasn't feeding them, after the food was gone one hung around and tickled my ears for a while.
From Wilda beasts to Gazelles to Rams, they had it all.
Kennedy Space Center, this is Dennis trying to lay in one of the first examples of the capsules, to say that they were a tight fit is an understatement.
Here we are sitting in a two man capsule, still cramped but not as bad.
Below is a copy of the Hubble Telescope and landing capsule that went to the moon.
A real Apollo mission capsule , the new orbit crafts by boeing look a lot like this.
this is the actual Atlantis space shuttle, it was displayed after the very last shuttle mission in 2011.
This is a piece of the Challenger shuttle that crashed shortly after take off in 1986, a school teacher was lost in this crash.
this is the windshield of the Columbus Shuttle,
which exploded opon re-entry in 2007.
Though very tragic these two accidents resulted in NASA making changes that would ensure that these kinds of accidents will never happen again.
This is the VAB, it is where the shuttles were made, they are looking to reuse it somehow later.
the control room at the control center, just as it was after the last mission in 2011, now it is being changed for commercial and private launching companies, (boeing, elon musk ect.)
these were real rockets that sent the shuttles up.
so much to see here but I'm glad its over, we are exhausted.
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