Day 3: Universal Studios

Our third day we went to Universal Studios in Hollywood. It was cool how they had streets like different little towns. Since it was coming up on Halloween they too had decorations out. Their theme was Zombies. So there were warning signs all over warning you that Zombies were running about and they had zombies all over the place.

We went to the live show of Waterworld. They reenact a scene from the movie. It was cool, we got pretty wet cause there were real waverunners and boats that would splash the audience on occasion.

Not to mention the guys that came out before the show and would spray people or splash a bucket full of water over everyone. It actually felt really nice!

Me and Bret hanging out with the crew of Apollo 13.

Universal Studios Studio Tour

We went on a tour of the studio which I have to say was really neat. I am amazed at how much trickery of the eye occurs in movies. They have a spot that is used for Central Park scenes and its a patch of grass about the size of my downstairs with a bench and some trees! And thats it! They make it look like the actors are in Central Park.

Here is a picture of the building used in Alfred Hitchcocks 1960's film Phsyco...The Bates Motel. This is where the infamous shower scene took place.

These next few pictures are for my fellow Desperate Housewives lovers. We got to drive down Wisteria Lane and see the set where the show is filmed. This is Bree Hodges house aka Marcia Cross.

This is Susan Mayers house aka Terri Hatcher. I guess technically she is now Susan Delfino since she just married Mike.

This is Gabrielle Solis' house aka Eva Longoria.

This is a set that was made for the movie War of the Worlds. I havent seen it but the set was crazy! It really looked like a plane crash.

Back in the day before they made actors use RVs as their dressing rooms they had these little rooms build to be used as dressing rooms. This was Rock Hudsons dressing room while he was filming Pillow Talk, one of my favorite Rock Hudson/ Doris Day movies.

A while back there was a fire on Universals studio and all of their New York City set burned down. So we got to see it under construction as they are rebuilding it.Another amazing thing to me is how they can use the same set over and over in different movies and we never notice! For example, this set below has been used in numerous films. I cant remember all of them but I took the picture because it was Genovia in Princess Diaries 2. The building in the middle was the church she was supposed to get married in.

All in all we had a blast here too! Our favorite rides had to be The Mummy Returns, The Simpsons and Jurrasic Park.

After Universal Studios we took a drive through Downtown Hollywood and went to Rodeo Drive. This is what you see in tv shows and movies. Too bad California isnt this nice everywhere! Its amazing because on tv it looks huge but its literally maybe two blocks long and thats it. But it was cool to see it anyway.