Wisteria Lane
We woke up to our first clear sunny morning in LA today. Incredibly powerful sunshine even though the actual air tempeerature wasn’t very high.
After breakfast we hopped onto the Metro out to Universal City, which is where Universal Studios have their theme park and ‘back lot’ for making movies and TV shows.
Kel bought us some queue jump passes which meant we could sail past everyone and get on to the rides first. :0)
First stop was the Studio Tour, you climb on board a trolley and are driven around the back lot by a tour guide.
It was great fun, highlights being seeing the start of Wisteria Lane from Desperate Housewives (we couldn’t go all the way down as they were actually filming the first episode of the new season at the time.
Next we passed by the ‘Grandview’ set, which is used for hundreds of TV shows, films and adverts. It’s probably most recognisable for beinng the main town set in Ghost Whisperer. In fact Jim and Melindas house in Ghost Whisperer is actually on the Wisteria Lane set.
Next up we drove through Amity which was the set for Jaws. It turns out the same set was used as ‘Cabot Cove’ in Murder She Wrote.
There were some unexpected fun moments on the tour. We drove onto a subway set, moments later there was an extremely realistic earthquake which destroyed everything around us. I took some video which I hope to get uploaded over the next few days.
After that was the King Kong 3D experience, which was amazing. The trolley entered a huge 3D screen which surrounded us. Then King Kong popped up and started fighting a T Rex. On the trolley we felt like we were right in the middle of it, being bashed and thrown around. Loved it.
Then it was back into the hot weather outside where we rode the Jurrassic Park ride and The Mummy rides.
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