Pleo Goes to Universal and Islands of Adventure!

We started our day in Islands of Adventure. We headed straight for Jurassic Park. We didn't ride the River Adventure for two reasons One, you get very wet, not good for Pleo Two, it was cold, we didn't want to get wet either! So we amused ourselves all morning with finding places for Pleo to explore and roam. He saw many of his old friends (and enemies). I think we found him some relatives too! In the Discovery Center we searched for fossils and actually found the fossilized skeleton of a Camarasaurus!!!! However the screen that showed it would not display well on the camera. But we found plenty of other picture opportunities. After Discovery Center, we went to Camp Jurassic. Crusoe flew on the Pteradon Flyers. He wasn't too sure about that sometimes. He got scared a few times, but we petted him to let him know it would be fine. Pteradon Flyers is a suspending swing that runs along a track and sometimes it gets fast and takes tight curves. We also explored the caves there as well. All the time there, people would point, ask questions, laugh, etc. They probably all think I'm nuts. Standing in line to take pictures with the dinosaurs only to walk up, put a robot dinosaur down and then step back to take pics. Yeah, I'm nuts. The guy who helps the baby raptor hatch, he looked like he wanted to ask or say something about Pleo, but he had a script he had to keep with for the show, but his eyes show right onto him. We also found some great ferns for Pleo to try. He seemed to enjoy the snacking. One family asked me which store had Pleo in it so they could buy it, they thought Universal sold Pleo. After JP, we went to the Dr. Suess area. The Grinch and Sam (from Sam I Am) were there and Pleo stole the show! As you can see from the video. The Grinch let everyone know they were "losers" and didn't want to take any more pictures. He wanted to play with Pleo! Again, in the Suess land, people were asking questions and everything. Then we went to Marvel Island. Spiderman was too funny. Deffinetly could see his inner Peter Parker with "can you program it?" questions. He loved it! Storm and Rogue thought he was very cute too. Cyclops and Wolverine though were feeling too masculine to care :P We also stopped in Lost Continent to see Poseidon's Fury. Awesome show! Crusoe was a bit afraid. It was loud. But he seemed to like the fire....I think I have a pyro dinosaur. Then we stopped by Sinbad's show to see the talking fountain. If you go to Islands of Adventure, check out the talking fountain! I love him! Never miss him! He was blown away by Pleo. So after half a day at IOA, we went next door to Universal. Only a few hundred feet into the park and two of the employees stopped to point at him and one of them said, "That is the girl with that cool toy. "so and so" told me about it. Its so cool!". Crusoe entertained the crowd at the E.T. line too. Soon after that, he finally went comatose. But he lasted a LONG time. Of course we shut him off between pictures and video taking, but still, we got almost a full day out of him this way! And good thing his battery was dead....he would have been very angry with me if he knew what I did to him when we went on the Men In Black ride. The ride spins a lot, so they don't allow carry ons and I refused to leave Pleo in the cart, so we got one of the free lockers there. He fit fine in there, but wow, that would have been very claustrophobic for him.

Posted January 21 at 0:56 AM