Graduation/Disney Trip: Friday – “Fu Sail Graduation” or “It a Beaver!”
On Friday, we had to get up massively early, because I had to be AT Universal Studios at Hard Rock at 8.00am. First, in order to get to Hard Rock, you have to enter what’s called Universal’s City Walk, a big area that connects both parks (Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure) that is full of restaurants (like Hard Rock, Margaritaville, NASCAR Café, etc) and shops (like Fossil). Hard Rock sits between the two parks, on one side of a lake. We were some of the first people in the area, because it doesn’t open until about an hour before the park does (the time that I had to be present at Hard Rock). We tromped around the lake and on the giant billboard/sign that changes pictures on the Hard Rock Café was a huge sign that read “Fu Sail University Graduation”… they had some of their LED lights out… Mom and Dad helped me get myself together for graduation and they went to sit, leaving me with my thirty or so classmates to stand and chat for an hour. Graduation went well. I didn’t fall. I won an award for my gaming class, for the design of one of the games I had to come up with (an educational game based on a combination of the Logical Journey of the Zoombinis – a computer game that I love – and a short film that I love called “The Chubb Chubbs” – if you haven’t seen it, YouTube it). From graduation, we walked around Universal’s City Walk, letting me get a t-shirt from Hard Rock (a Jovi shirt!) and Allie get one from Margaritaville. On our way past the NASCAR Café, there was a guy dressed up as a character by the entrance. This character was Digger, a gopher who shows up in the races on one of the cameras as a little cartoon. We’re walking by and Allie goes, “Look! A beaver!” Dad goes, “That’s not a beaver. That’s a gopher.” Dad got his picture taken, albeit reluctantly, with the beaver… er, gopher.
From there, we went over to Fuddruckers for lunch (which was awesome) and then to Downtown Disney. We walked all over that place, which is sortof huge, and bought stuff, which was fun. We then went back to the hotel and crashed for a few hours before going to dinner at the Rainforest Café. Dad ordered a $30 steak, which was okay, because Allie and I were paying, and we had SOOOO much food. After an amazing dinner, we walked around Downtown Disney and took some pictures before Mom and Dad decided that, since they hadn’t finished playing mini-golf the night before, we were going to play Friday night. We’d been up since 6am. It was 10.30pm. Allie fell out of the car getting out at the golf course. We played the other course at Fantasia Gardens, the Gardens course, which is modeled after the two Fantasia movies. Holes were decorated with characters, musical instruments. One hole, for example, was a cave where you had to shoot between pillars, and when you hit the end of hole and tripped a motion sensor, the big dark monster guy from “A Night on Bald Mountain” appeared on the wall, which made Allie jump. One hole, when you shot through it, made an elephant spout water. One hole, when you walked under it, had brooms that poured out water (like those in the Sorcerer’s Apprentice), and the last hole, once you sank the ball in, shot water up and made lights come on, like the Sorcerer was stopping the water, but mostly sounded like a toilet flushing. Because it had rained earlier, I, also, slipped and did a nice little split on the golf course. Dad won, with Allie in second, and Mom and I pulling up the rear. Needless to say, we were exhausted and everything was hilarious.
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