Universal CityWalk -- And The Lorax!

We were NOT going to do anything today! We had had a very heavy rain-storm during the night and I had been up several times shutting windows and pulling in awnings. Forry decreed that it was going to be a quiet contemplative, restful, catch-up day. Then later this afternoon, Bill and Leslie came over. Bill was antsy and wanted to go somewhere. He enticed Forry with the promise of a Margarita and convinced us that we needed to go over to Universal Studio's CityWalk. After all, I had been wanting to check out the Harry Potter merchandise for our grand-kids.

This picture is looking down from the walkway from the parking area at the very colorful Putt-Putt golf course. It looks like it would be a fun place. (I think that purple and green thing on the top of the rocks is a caterpillar...?)

 Sure enough, one of the first places we ran into was --

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So we left Forry and Bill there while we went to check out the wands and other magical supplies.

Florida flora continues to fascinate me. There were all of these palm trees around the open area between the stores and buildings --

I was trying to figure out why they were green underneath the leaf area at the top of the trunk, then realized that there were ferns growing in between the stumps of the old dead leaves --

After wandering around a bit, we ended up deciding that we would go to Bubba Gump's for supper.

The whole restaurant is themed around the Forrest Gump movie, including the menu --

The portions were huge! This is about half of the tempura shrimp that came with my order. There was another cup filled with french fries as well.

There is a bench outside the restaurant with Forrest Gump's suitcase and a box of chocolates on it and his shoes in front of it. So my Forrest just had to have his picture taken there!

Universal Studios has a big CinePlex Theatre as part of the CityWalk complex. We saw that The Lorax was playing, so decided go see it after we ate. It was an interesting, albeit a bit heavy-handed,  movie -- as are all of the films based on Dr. Seuss books. I really enjoyed the whimsical characters and creativity.

Bill had bought some gourmet cupcakes at the Food Truck Bazaar last night, so we returned to Auntie Violet for dessert while we made plans for the coming week.