very vague story about an Arabian Princess' wedding. The stunts performed
by the horses and their riders were very exciting, although slightly marred by
the fact that several visiting vets in our row were debating whether the
animals were sedated or not. To ease our consciences we tended to agree
with those who said the horses had not been drugged, they were far too
frisky.
The show ended in the traditional manner of Arabian weddings: a
minute's silence for peace/overseas troops, a rendition of 'God Bless the
USA', and a snowfall. Quite.
We marked our last day in Universal Studios by wearing our custom-made
travelling t-shirts. These were printed on the front with 'Travels In A Tin Can.
TNT USA tour 2003-04'. TNT stands for our surnames, Thomas and Tonin,
though Emma is always at pains to point out the other meaning of the initials,
repeatedly saying: ‘together we're dynamite', maybe one day someone will
even laugh (other than Emma who laughs every time). The back of the t-shirts
simply said 'tour dates' and then had a blank space where we wrote the
names of all the places we visited with a fabric pen.
During the day we got quite a lot of comments, usually from men who
read (slowly) the words emblazoned across Emma's chest...hmmm, wonder
why? But also several ‘natives’ remarked that we had been to more places
than them - Americans do not seem to travel much.
We also had our faces painted; mine to look like Wolverine, Emma to
look like 'Bad Girl Power' (a famous super hero...obviously). My make-up
made the 'real' Wolverine so jealous that he pretended to strangle me while