Layovers and L.A. - Day II

Here's some more of what is definitely going to be the longest story on From the Man Himself yet. Don't worry, most of Day II is about actual crazy happenings, and not boring layover/airport type stuff. Don't stop reading until the tilde's receding!


The next morning, we woke up to Spike (Spike Lee, a kid on the computer science team whose real first name is Paul, but received the nickname from none other than the infamous Daniel) telling us that we were supposed to meet the other four guys at IHOP in about an hour. We got there and found that they'd jacked up the prices there about $3 per item. We told our waitress that we were leaving, then promptly did so. There's nothing I hate more than a ripoff deal from a restaurant that I normally trust.

Anyway, though they were late, the senior guys and Mrs. Rountree eventually did go to IHOP, and so did Spike (that crazy). Ryan, Stewie and I all went to McDonal's and had a cheap and surprisingly good breakfast. Then we went back to the hotel and, you guessed it, sat around and watched Spanish television until it was type to go to Universal Studios: Hollywood.

Universal Studios was one pretty cool place. We saw Shrek 4-D (a very entertaining 3-D glasses ride), Terminator (also 3-D glasses-ish), Back to the Future: The Ride (which, as I pointed out after the ride, had many plot fallacies), Waterworld, Backdraft (a cool ride about firefighters and such) and some other prety cool stuff. We also rode Jurassic Park, but it was a wimpy water ride that was pretty much the same as the one I'd ridden in Orlando.

After that, we went to Hard Rock Cafe: Hollywood, and rocked hard, of course. I got some matches and had a great time coloring the coloring book with crayons, making fun of Spike, eating my crazy go nuts Cajun chicken sandwich, and drinking my Mountain Dew. Sure, the Mountain Dew cost $2.69, the price of which wasn't even on the menu when I ordered it, but at least I got my Dew fix, right?

Next, we went back to the hotel and hooked up the Internet through our phone line, so I got some AIM time (which unfortunately I was unable to save due to AIM Express). One conversation was especially funny, involving a girl from my history class who remembers everything she ever finds out about a person (we tested her with the guys in my room, and she was freakishly good at remembering stuff about them, one of whom she'd never even talked to.) After that I went over to the senior room to study finite state automations, assembly language, and all sorts of other computer programming nonsense. Supposedly this was going to help me on the test the next day, but I doubted it.

END OF DAY 2

Sounds like Tito had a lot of fun at Universal Studios, and he finally got some Dew, but what happened next at the actual computer science part of the trip?

I've been to Universal Studios: Hollywood before, and it's a lot better than this idiot says it is. The From the Man Himself index page had better have a disclaimer to cover this inaccurate travel information.