Vacationing with your family in your twenties is so different from going on vacation as a kid. You're able to enjoy going to nice restaurants because you don't have to immediately search for the "big appetizer" or cheapest entrée page. You can now drink with your parents. You can also help with the drive, therefore, feeling like you contributed. My favorite is probably the part where I don't have to get permission to buy an overpriced souvenir! Because it's now MY money that I'm "wasting." Yes, I will take that invisible dog-leash thing that I've wanted since I was 5. And even though, my mother was right when she told me it'd get old and it'll just take up space in my closet... I'll never admit it to her.
Now, there are generally more pros than cons when traveling with your parents but the cons seem so much worse at the time. So, I mentioned that you can drink but you can't get drunk. You also can't be hot in the presence of your parents. The minute you start to eye flirt, a pair of mom hands come at 'cha to fix your shirt. Mooooooooooooooom!
As you can tell, I recently took a family vaca to Universal Studios/Islands of Adventure in Florida. It had been over ten years since my last visit. Let me tell ya, it was an adventure.
Opening the park map brought on mixed feelings of nostalgia and a little disappointment. The Back to the Future ride had ridden out its fame. It had been replaced with Krustyland. Yup, a Simpson's ride. It was cute but has nothin' on chasing Biff through time.
The plan was to hit all the new rides and with the remaining time, go on the classics. The Rip Ride Rockit roller coaster was fun! Not one of the fastest I've ever been on but the cool thing about it is that you get to choose what song to ride to. You can't really hear it over the screaming and with your head bobbing but still. The choices weren't the greatest but I picked Gloria Gaynor. Seemed the most appropriate.
Let's see...We rode the Hulk and Spiderman, of course, oh and the Jurassic Park ride, which ultimately, was a bad choice because it's a water ride and Florida was cold. Yes, it was cold and slightly rainy for the 2 days we were there...grrrrr
The best, or let me clarify, the funniest was most definitely the Terminator2 3D show. Just as awesome as i remembered but horribly out dated. For those of you who don't know, the show opens up with a showing of a Cyberdyne ad: They promise robots that'll help with surgery as well as students around the world studying together in real time...Yea, an update is needed.
The twists and turns of the rides didn't make me nauseous but moments of family togetherness did. Trips tend to bring out the worst in my mother and since we only booked one room, there's nowhere to hide.
I'm going to make this entry a two parter. This is the happier half.
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