LA - Universal Studios and road to Vegas...
It was a beautiful Sunday Morning. We immediately freshed up and jumped into the seat for the Universal Studios Experience. As Gaurav's friend, had to cover up some project, he said he wouldnt be able to accompany us. We decided to pack up the luggage and move on, as the plan was to hit the road to Vegas from Universal Studios. As usual, I was the one who had to buy tickets, and got them and went in. With so many nice memories of visiting that place in 2003 with Ravi, Arun R and Arun D, still fresh, I found so amazing that except for few items, things haven't changed A BIT in these 4 years. The shows were still same, the concept was still same, I just thought how things can go unchanged even in a developed country!!!
But now, I was the MOST experienced guy of the batch, having visited this place once, I was showing off places to people. As Gaurav was expecting his sister and bro-in-law, and Sandeep his college friend, we decided to split into groups and just enjoy and with none having mobile phones, it was all out of a decision that we would meet up at a particular spot sharp by 3 PM. I along with Gaurav, revisited most of my favourite spots like the Terminator Bike, Shrek 4D and Mummy experience. Each of them was just adrenalin rushing and fantastic to say the least. As expected, we met almost at 3.30 PM as we were waiting for one or the other person. We knew we were running short of time now. We have to drive a minimum of 4-5 hours and still were confident of reaching Las Vegas right on the showtime :P
Gaurav took the car out and as the GPS "aunty" as we called her, was adamant that she would not help us go to Las Vegas. Multiple attempts to make her speak just failed. What it means is that we have no GPS and were just left in the middle of the road with no inch of how to proceed. My God, in US, life without a GPS is unimaginable. We decided we would call up the Car Rental Agency and find out if we can get a replacement of GPS. Day being Sunday, the only advise they would give (after spending considerable dollars on calls) that come to LA Airport and you could take up the new GPS (thankfully the rent for this cab included GPS fees). We reached the airport, contemplated for a while if we should change the cab and then decided to stick with this machismo as we didnt have better options there, and changed the GPS and hit the road. We definitely lost around 30-45 mts due to this, however, the experience was a "nervous and when will this solve" kind of, a new one to feel :)
Now, leaving back LA as our return trip to SFO was directly from LV, we hit the road to Las Vegas - the SIN CITY!!!!!!!
Pics of our LA trip are at:
http://picasaweb.google.com/sriswami/LA2007
But now, I was the MOST experienced guy of the batch, having visited this place once, I was showing off places to people. As Gaurav was expecting his sister and bro-in-law, and Sandeep his college friend, we decided to split into groups and just enjoy and with none having mobile phones, it was all out of a decision that we would meet up at a particular spot sharp by 3 PM. I along with Gaurav, revisited most of my favourite spots like the Terminator Bike, Shrek 4D and Mummy experience. Each of them was just adrenalin rushing and fantastic to say the least. As expected, we met almost at 3.30 PM as we were waiting for one or the other person. We knew we were running short of time now. We have to drive a minimum of 4-5 hours and still were confident of reaching Las Vegas right on the showtime :P
Gaurav took the car out and as the GPS "aunty" as we called her, was adamant that she would not help us go to Las Vegas. Multiple attempts to make her speak just failed. What it means is that we have no GPS and were just left in the middle of the road with no inch of how to proceed. My God, in US, life without a GPS is unimaginable. We decided we would call up the Car Rental Agency and find out if we can get a replacement of GPS. Day being Sunday, the only advise they would give (after spending considerable dollars on calls) that come to LA Airport and you could take up the new GPS (thankfully the rent for this cab included GPS fees). We reached the airport, contemplated for a while if we should change the cab and then decided to stick with this machismo as we didnt have better options there, and changed the GPS and hit the road. We definitely lost around 30-45 mts due to this, however, the experience was a "nervous and when will this solve" kind of, a new one to feel :)
Now, leaving back LA as our return trip to SFO was directly from LV, we hit the road to Las Vegas - the SIN CITY!!!!!!!
Pics of our LA trip are at:
http://picasaweb.google.com/sriswami/LA2007
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