Random Thoughts
[li] America’s BIG! Like, REALLY big. Everything’s bigger. The roads are bigger, the shops are bigger, the food is bigger. It’s just big.[/li][li] From the air, everything looks so neat. The rectangular fields and the regular blocks and the straight, straight roads. It’s such a contrast to the higgledy-piggledy-ness of England. At night the cities look like spiders, with the straight highways jutting out.[/li]
Universal Studios
[li] That guy dressed up as a wolf and randomly accosting people – what’s he meant to be? I mean, he’s standing near the DeLorean… is it some weird Michael J Fox link between Back to the Future and Teenwolf?[/li][li] ET’s home planet. I know why I don’t take acid.[/li][li] Instead of the interminable escalators between the lower lot and the upper one, they ought to have funslides. Reverse-gravity ones for the way up too. That would be MUCH cooler.[/li][li] It’s really, really hard to resist reaching out to try and grab at the shiny floating 3D things during the Terminator ride.[/li][li] The Waterworld show – that guy must wake up in the mornings and think to himself “I have to set myself on fire and leap off a tall building again? Aw man!”.[/li]
Disneyland
[li] Splash Mountain’s vertical drop isn’t very long at all. They have all this mist at the bottom where it looks like you’re heading into the abyss…. but you’re not. No abyss at all really. There should be more abyss on rides.[/li][li] Tigger loves me. He smooched me during the parade and he didn’t smooch anyone else. Tigger is my boyfriend.[/li][li] Mickey Mouse thinks he’s so special. He has his own house and you have to go all through the house just to get the chance to queue to see him. I refuse to pander to his ego. I walked all through his house and then DIDN’T see him. Ha! That’ll show him![/li][li] The dinosaurs at Universal Studios are much more convincing that the ones at Disney. I was disturbed to note that the little one that looks like it’s half inside an egg and is wriggling to get out is in fact only half a dinosaur – the bit inside the egg doesn’t exist. I shudder to think what this makes small children think.[/li][li] Mint chocolate chip ice-cream with hot fudge sauce r0><0r.[/li]
Hollywood
[li] The Vine end of the blvd is scary. We had to walk past two men fighting and all I could think was “They have guns in America. Walk quickly.”[/li][li] There was a whole shop just for fridge magnets. Every kind of magnet you can imagine, they had it. If I’d looked hard enough, I could’ve found a magnet of a fridge. I would’ve bought that – it might have created a fridge-magnet-fridge vortex.[/li][li] There’s a really, really nice Italian place called Miceli’s just off Hollywood on Las Palmas. Good food, good prices and good service. And the piano player played “Close To You” by The Carpenters just for me. I’m not ashamed.[/li]
Melrose
[li] Melrose is like a very spaced-out version of Camden. I don’t mean spaced-out as in “woah man!”, just as in “It’s really quite a long way to walk”. But nice. With a good coffee shop.[/li][li] The bar at the end of Melrose was very small, but it was showing 7 different football games. Seven! There were many different groups of supporters, result in much shouting every ten seconds or so. I tried to get someone to tell me what was going on, but after the talk turned to “Two of four and the wizzbang has to punt the flibbert to the studebaker over the shiznit”, my eyes glazed over.[/li]
More to come as I think of them…
