A pretty good day so far. I rode my bike here again, which is a good thing. Hopefully I’ll keep riding when I get back to MA next week so when I start going to the Keys I’ll still be in shape.

When I got here I went and watched Fear Factor Live. Normally I’m really against reality TV shows, but this wasn’t as bad because I was actually watching people do these things. And besides, I had an alteriative motive. I’m sitting outside right now trying to get cast onto the show and wanted to know what I was getting myself into.

Turns out you only have to habg from your arms longer than two of your opponents, win a team competition, which resembles a Double Dare event, and then its the final round.

The first round shouldn’t be a problem. The team round really depends on your team mate. And then the final round I think I’m really well suited for.

The final round requires you to climb a wall andremove four flags on your way up. There is a ladder but you have to climb out onto window sills and such to get the flag. I think my rock climbing experiance will do me well here.

After doing that you have to slide down a fireman’s pole and run to a convertible. The car gets hoisted about 35 feetin the air, and you have to climb out onto the hood and rip off three more flags. After doing that you have to run to the back seat of the car. There you find a “rocket launcher”, and have to fire it at a target on the building. The first person to do all of that wins the competition, and gets a bunch of swag, including four one day tickets to the park.

I think I have a really good chance at winning this, but either way it’ll be fun just to try.

First I beed to get selected though. Wish me luck!

(Picture from left to righ: Racheal, Zack, Chris, Ester)

Yesterday I went to Universal Studio’s. Jackie’s husband, Ken, works there part time as Jake from the Blues Brothers, so he was able to hook me up with a free ticket, which was awesome.

It took a while to get there since it was about 30 miles away, but its actually really good foe me to have really easy 2-hour rides like that to kind of stay in shape on this week off.

I ended up getting there around noon after getting kind of a late start and taking forever at the grocery store on the way there. I had a ticket good for both parks but there looked like there was so much to do that I could spend atleast two days there so I decided to focus on the main movie park, and leave the roller coaster park for another day.

The first ride I went on was the Terminator, which had some really good 3-D effects, but was totally cheesy.

“Let’s bust a move.” -Arnold

While in line for that ride, I saw a kid in a Converge shirt, so I started up a conversation with him. It turn out he was there for his wife, Ester’s, birthday with his sister and her husband, Rachel and Zack. They ended up being really cool people so I ended up hanging out with them for the rest of the day.

It worked out really well. They wanted to go on pretty much all the same rides I wanted to go on, and so it was good to have company, and people to talk to. Its easy for me to talk to people, and the bike trip makes a great ice breaker, but it gets tiring telling the same story over and over, so it was cool to have people to talk about music, bridge jumping, and othe things with.

At around 7 o’clock, we had pretty much finished all of the big rides in that park and were going to go over to the other park, when Jackie called. The birthday party there were at had just let out and they were in the area so she wanted to know if I wanted a ride back to her house. I had to leave about then anyways in order to get back before dark, so I fladly took them up on the offer.

Before leaving though, I traded my Complementary pass for Zack’s normal pass which could be upgraded. I upgraded it to a two day pass for $48, which got me a third day for free. That averages out to be $16 a day which I’d say is a lot better than the normal $60 gate price. The only hitch with swaping tickets is that Zack had to get his hand stamped on the way out to get into the other park. I told them this earier in the day, and again before we switched tickets, but there was some down time between then and when they left the park, so I really hope that it worked out for them. I was planning on giving them my cell phone number to call me if there were any problems, but didn’t end up doing that, so I really hoped it all worked out for them.

Anyways, I have a pass now for two more days and light’s burning so I’m going to head out again and hit up these parks some more.

This is a picture I took yesterday while at Universal Studios. Its a movie re-enactment of an 8.3 earth quake.