{"id":3019,"date":"2014-03-08T04:37:17","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T12:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3019"},"modified":"2014-03-08T04:41:33","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T12:41:33","slug":"here-for-your-entertainment-singapore-03082014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3019","title":{"rendered":"Here For Your Entertainment! \u2013 Singapore \u2013 [03\/08\/2014]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"wannahavefun\"<\/a>I wasn\u2019t going to go. I mean I really wasn\u2019t. I didn\u2019t have the money (what\u2019s left of my cash for the month is supposed to be going towards my Elephant Ride in Thailand) and I\u2019m enough out of the pit now that I didn\u2019t need<\/i> another park day\u2026I really didn\u2019t\u2026<\/p>\n

But then Simone mentioned that she had a really good friend who works<\/i> at Universal Studios\u2026who therefore could get us in for half price ($30 instead of $60), and could likely get us fast passes that basically make the lines disappear\u2026and I\u2019d had a bit of a weird morning (not bad, just\u2026odd)\u2026and\u2026well the park is right there<\/i>\u2026as in it\u2019s a ten minute tram ride away\u2026<\/p>\n

*sigh* I know\u2026I know I said\u2026but I also know that the universe knows what a weak willed person I (sometimes) am\u2026<\/p>\n

When it comes to some things.<\/p>\n

Universal Studios Singapore remains a pretty small park, but it\u2019s still surprisingly difficult to do it in a day. Especially since we were more focused on seeing the shows (Simone\u2019s friend is a cast member rather than a face character) than we were on going on the rides. The fact that Simone had connections in the cast meant that we got to sit in the VIP section of the theatre which was many shades of awesome because the cast comes up and interacts with you since you\u2019re right in the front! The show itself was equally brilliant (though, it was no Disney show, and I\u2019ll fully admit that I\u2019m bias as far as theme park stage shows go), bringing to life and modernizing a bunch of the classic Universal Pictures movie monsters, including a little half pint of a girl with firecracker red hair who played the \u2018Mummy\u2019\u00a0 and could sing to bring the rafters down (Lady Gaga no less, never thought I\u2019d hear Born This Way<\/i> sung as a Broadway belt\u2026but it worked shockingly well).<\/p>\n

Since word spread that a cast member had friends in the park, all the other<\/i> cast members started playing to us in the street shows, Simone got pulled out of the crowd to dance at one point.<\/p>\n

After Simone had had her first round of catch-up with her old co-worker, we sat in Mel\u2019s Diner and sipped coke floats and munched on French fries and just kind of enjoyed being off the ship for a while. Simone and I have \u2013 until recently \u2013 been just work friends, this is the first time we\u2019d really hung out with each other outside of that context. I think she originally only asked me if I wanted to go with her because she knew I was a theme park junkie, but I\u2019m pretty sure we were both pleasantly surprised to find out that we actually get along really well. Definitely a good thing.<\/p>\n

Eventually \u2013 after a whole lot of shop talk from all three of us (Simone\u2019s friend is also ex-ships so we all spoke pretty much the same language) we left Key to get ready for the parade and decided to actually do the ride thing. This is where the whole knowing-someone-in-the-cast thing came in exceptionally handy:\u00a0 hand over a VIP pass at the beginning of the queue? And that 50 minute wait for the Jurassic Park rapids ride? Disappears.<\/p>\n

Yeah, I dragged Simone through Jurassic Park, and once again I still kept my eyes mostly closed, and when they were open, they were looking steadily at the floor of the raft. I tried! I really really did! I just\u2026epically failed. I somehow just cannot make myself get past the IT\u2019S A BIG BLOODY DINOSAUR AND IT\u2019S GONNA EAT ME!!!<\/p>\n

But Simone told me that she closes her eyes for the abdominal snowman on the Matterhorn ride at Disneyland so I feel slightly better now \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

I also directed her to the Transformers ride\u2026actually that was what we went on first.<\/p>\n

How are you with sim rides?<\/i><\/p>\n

Oh I\u2019m good with any ride\u2026<\/i><\/p>\n

Then you have got<\/span><\/b> to go on this thing. Remember what Star Tours was like back when it was new? Yeah\u2026this is better.<\/i><\/p>\n

Her reaction when the ride was finished was much like mine was the first time I went through it.<\/p>\n

Oh. My. GOD! THAT WAS AMAZING<\/i><\/p>\n

Yeah\u2026I love introducing people to that ride.<\/p>\n

Looming over the whole park is the one sad thing about the whole day: the now defunct Battlestar Glaticia dueling rollercoasters. Turns out I was one of the last ones that was able to ride them, rumour has it that they\u2019re going to tear them down and build a whole new attraction in their place; in the meantime they\u2019ve been closed for the last year and a half or so. Pity really, that was a really great attraction, one of the best in the park. I\u2019ll be interested to see what they put up in its place, though I expect it\u2019ll be a while before anything is done with it.<\/p>\n

I cut it finer than I\u2019d intended getting back to the ship (don\u2019t worry, we\u2019re on an overnight) and on the gangway ran nearly headlong into Sherra, whom I haven\u2019t seen since I dragged her<\/i> to Universal Studios nearly three years ago (nearly the first time she\u2019d ever been to a theme park as I recall!)\u2026she\u2019s onboard for just over a week, with a show somewhere in the middle. So\u2026this week? This\u2026is gonna be a fun one.<\/p>\n

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