Hello,
Sorry for the not sending any mails for a long time....
I am fine here and quite exited... because of the adventures I experienced...  Ho.... There was a 4-day holiday starting from July 1st to July 4th.  Long weekend...  Harsha, Vijay and his 3 friends came to my house on 1st July early morning at 2:30 am.  We planned to go to in and around the place I am staying.  We thought of going to

· Universal Studio on 1st July.
· Disney Land on 2nd.
· Sea World in San Diego on 3rd.
· Catalina Island on 4th.

Every thing happened as per our plan and visited all the places as above....

We were totally 7 people...

Anubhav. (Manojs’ roommate)
Harsha. (Elxsian)
Manoj. (Ex-Elxsian)
Prasanna. (Me)
Prasanna Kumar V V. (Elxsian)
Vijay Valalla. (Ex-Elxsian)
Vinod. (Vijay’s’ and Harshas’ Room mate)

We hired two cars with two expert drivers, Manoj and Vijay :-)...

we enjoyed every bit of the stay.  We started with a Show, "The Water World".  It is about the Pirates in the sea.  The stunts and the comedy were too good... There we some explosions, destructions to walls and the finest thing was a plane lands in the water and stops just in front of us... it is fully controlled...  The stunts men and women we having very good physic.  The were strong and jumping almost everywhere...  Not carrying the heights and the obstacles...  We took some snaps with them later....
 Later we went to many shows (stunts) that we exhibited on land and water... (Both men and animals... we involved in some.)  Our best ride of that day was in the Jurassic park... Where, a boat like will go around the setup used for Jurassic park and there will be a free fall from 70 feet.  Hufffffffffff that was terrific... we have snap of our expression in the fall... We enjoyed more when we saw many set up used for the many other films like Jaws, Godzilla, Earth Quake and some streets made for the films.  I feel my word here can't be replaced to express my experience... To know it, experience it...  We saw even some movies like terminator-3 which this was as 4-D movie... meaning 3-D show with feelings... i.e. with simulation of some of the effects... like tremors, spilling of water over us and etc..  We ate some pizza for lunch and dinner... we made an end for that at 11:30 pm and drew to our house to rest for next day in Disney Land.
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We started with a train tour in the DW (Disney World) to see around for the place to be visited later...  We saw a place where we can drive the car ourself on a track... We all went for that and found it was not so thrilling.  Then we went to Rocket Rod ride.  It is concept of Tomorrow World.  It goes very fast, and is similar to roller coaster ride.  There was no much excitement for me as it was my second experience.  Later on we went to all the rides that I had taken (In fact I was the Guide for all.)  Every one of us enjoyed (even though mine was second time) the 4D show of Honey I Shrunk the Audience.  In this the felling is that we audience are all shrunk in auditorium.  The best thing in the show was the feeling that we get when mice multiplies into thousands and spreads around the auditorium and we feel that they are climbing our legs....  Every one starts shouting...  other best in the same show was, when the Dog sneezes, the mucus come on our faces... (water is sprayed from the from seat...)  Too good....  Harsha, Prasanna Kumar, Vinod and me went to see the laser show and the fire works at night 9:30pm, when Vijay, Manoj and Anubhav were dancing in the live band show and they said they enjoyed a lot and we too in the show...  It was so good that we saw both the shows twice.  We separated to see above after the ride called the space mountain ride.  It was so good and very lengthy that every one still shouting even after the ride.  This ride is totally in the dark space to get feel of the sky.  The turns and falls are too much...  It was moving so fast, that later Vijay started blaming Harsha and me that "Why we guys we not shouting" as per our previous agreement.  But we both were shouting.  There was a similar ride on the same day afternoon before this, which was in a mountain.  Even that was good.  But, the space mountain ride was too good and was my first ride (I had missed in my previous visit to Disney Land).  Again we went back home at 00:00am.
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Here there were many shows from Whales, dolphins, birds, sea lions and other animals.  Apart from the shows there was a ship wreak ride and wild artic ride (wild artic was a simulation).  Especially in the Show by dolphins there was a drama done.  Usually a family from the audience will be called to touch the dolphin or whales in shows.  When a girl from the family was touching the dolphin, her father fell into the water while taking the photo.  Then the entire dolphin started towards him and one dolphin took him like a ride and threw him on the land... Every one thought that was a real... But they later announced that the person feel down was none other that the chief trainer... :-)  Goggle...  Then the shows from the whale were called as SHAMU SHOW, Indian name....  This was also good... In all the above shows, the front portion of the seating was called as SOAK ZONE.... The whale and the Dolphins were throwing the water on to the audience.... One time it went into my mouth, it was salty (has to be...).  In the bird show, one good thing was a free fall from an Eagle from 330 feet on to hands of a trainer...  Later we had a 4D Pirates movie... Here again water falls on our head and when the birds fly... we fell as though they are touching us...  One best comedy in this was, when the villain finally falls into the water, he takes some in his mouth and splashes on to us... it falls on our face.... (Cheeeeeeee.... no worry it is not from his mouth...it is from the front seat arrangement (of course not from person in front seat)... we had good chance to spit on others... :-))  The aquarium were very big to hold sharks and whales...  Here we can go in below the aquarium...  It was really good feeling....
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We had reserved the Cruiser at 12:00pm and it started exactly at the time.  We went to top of the Cruiser.  It stated very slowly into the Pacific Ocean, but later it was at 40 Miles/hr.  The speed added with the natural wind on the ocean made our walk against very difficult.  We took some snaps on our ride.  On the way we saw some big ships and I started singing Titanic song seeing that...  We reached at 1:00pm at Catalina Island.  First, we saw some people doing Para-sailing on the ocean; some were in their own Boats and Kayaks.  We, especially Vijay and me thought of experiencing Para-Sailing on the ocean.  Later every one thought of doing except Prasanna Kumar and Harsha.  We got the appointment at 3:00pm for Vijay and me and for rest at 3:30 pm.  We thought of taking Bicycle for rent and do some mountain ride.  Vijay and me managed to go top very early (stamina.... Hhmmmm....) It was very good scenery from the top....  At 3:00 we reported for the Para-Sailing and I agreed to go first for that.... OOOOOOOOOuuuuuuuuuuuuuu it was too good.... I am yet to get the snap of my Para-Sailing in air.... I was 400 feet above the ocean for 10 mins...  At the end of 10 mins the person will give us almost a dip in ocean and again up into air...  Vijay requested for a slight dip into the ocean...  We also had an hour ride in the ocean until all the 5 people in the boat completed theirs' turn.  Even though it was my first adventure sport of this sort... I did not had any feeling to be afraid...  Later we came to know that the wind was slightly heavy that day...  We finished this at 4:00pm and our return trip was at 5:45pm, what to do till that time?  Vijay and me thought of going in a boat of our own... But we came to know that the boats were available only at a 1/2 an hour distance from that place.  So 1 hr is used for going there and coming back. 1/2 an for riding in the boat... We thought we would not make before 5:45pm... so we did not go for that... Then we took Kayaks, in which, only one person can sit in the boat.   We have to do rowing in the ocean.  Initially I had problems in controlling... Later... I became master of that in mins and Vijay was praising me...  We came out of it and turned toward cruiser for return journey... Again we went to top of the Cruiser... The wind was too much by the evening...  On the way back home we went to Indian Restaurant near my house and had a nice North Indian dinner and came back home.  Vijay, Harsha, Manoj, Anubhav & Vinod, started to San Jose the same night.  Prasanna went to his house...  I stayed in my house to take rest after the hectic long week end...
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