If it is Monday it must be the Universal Studios

Never knowing what to expect or even whether or not we would like it, we booked for a day trip to Universal Studios. We knew it was a theme park and it is not something we would both readily do.
We were up again early to catch the 8.25 pick up and were taken back to Hollywood where we queued again and were allocated to a different bus.
That bus took us to theUniversal Studios about fifteen minutes away.
We got into the park and then had to wait ten minutes until it opened. We had decided to do the studio tour before anything else and walked fairly quickly to the trams that take people around. To give you an idea of the number of people there were we got on the first tram out, but were sat in the last of four coaches about two thirds of the way back. Say 50 people to a coach and you get the idea.
The trip was great and really extremely interesting. We visited several "lots" and stages, although apart from one TV show no filming was going on. We visited a Mexican town and were shown a flash flood, were taken underground to a tube station, which underwent an earthquake whilst we were  in it, including another flood. We visited a Wild West set on which John Wayne had worked , and an aeroplane crash site, on which Tom Cruise had worked. We also had a 3d encounter with King Kong and saw an American city set that has been used in several guises. The whole trip lasted about an hour and a half. Surprise surprise we both really enjoyed it.
After the studios we went to see Shrek in 4d and again we really enjoyed it, this is the future of television and cinema, we even got wet as the donkey sneezed and the spiders that appeared to drop into our lap made Rosemarie jump. We both had a good laugh .
We did venture down to look at the rides but the expedition controller drew the line at getting on one so we made our way to the special effects show, which was also hugely enjoyable.
By now it was time for lunch and we had a beer in a really believable Irish pub, before getting a sandwich in what looked like a French restaurant.
This is exactly what the whole day was about, smoke and mirrors, all the sets are very small, filming is a land of make believe, you don't always see what you think you do.
After lunch we visited the house of horrors which we both liked although they certainly made you jump and saw a Blues Brothers live R and B revue which was very good.
So there you go, you travel somewhere expecting the worst and have a relatively good time.we were picked up at 3pm and taken back to our hotel.
After a short break we went off for some retail therapy in Macy's department store in the Beverly centre before finishing the day with a Mexican Meal, not too bad for the penultimate day of our journey.