USA Trip - Holiday Rankings

One of the things we wanted to do on our trip was to try a bunch of American take-away food places that weren't available in Australia.  We keep a record of what we ranked each one.

Here is the rankings that we put together (note that Chick-fil-A tanked pretty bad as it was an airport store and served Cameron a mouldy burger bun, and Chuck-E-Cheese was only attended by Tara and Brett so had less points of reference.)

Overall Dave's Hot Chicken and Cheesecake factory were run away winners, closely followed by In and Out Burger and Krusty Burger at Universal Studios).  Chick-fil-A came last with the mouldy bread being one of the big reasons, followed by Starbucks (mostly due to a limited selection in the airport). Raising Cains was decent, but it was deemed that the sauce was good but the chicken was a bit bland without the sauce.

We also took a favourite's list for the themeparks:

Disney (Both Parks):
Alana:
Favourite Ride: Space Mountain
Favourite Food: Hungry Bear BBQ Jamboree

Cameron:
Favourite Ride:Smuggler's Run

Favourite Food: Star Wars Docking Bay 7 Food and Cargo - Fried Chicken Baos

Tomas:
Favourite Ride: Star Wars Rise of Rebellion

Favourite Food: Star Wars Docking Bay 7 Food and Cargo - Bounty Bun with Spiced Beef and Pork

Kristine:
Favourite Ride: Incredicoaster
Favourite Food: Churros

Keir:
Favourite Ride: Incredicoaster
Favourite Food: Horchata

Tara:
Favourite Ride: Space Mountain
Favourite Food: Chocolate Rice Crispy

Brett:
Favourite Ride: Radiator Springs Racers

Favourite Food: Flo's V8 Cafe - Ka-Cheeseburger

Universal Studios (No best food as we only ate lunch in the park):

Alana:
Favourite Ride: Fast & Furious Hollywood Drift

Cameron:

Favourite Ride: Fast & Furious Hollywood Drift

Tomas:
Favourite Ride: The Mummy

Kristine:
Favourite Ride: Fast & Furious Hollywood Drift

Keir:
Favourite Ride: The Simpsons Ride

Tara:
Favourite Ride: Fast & Furious Hollywood Drift

Brett:
Favourite Rides: Fast & Furious Hollywood Drift, Studio Tour, The Mummy

We then took votes on the best thing of the entire trips, with 1 being the best overall.  (note there is likely some recency bias as we took the vote just as we left Universal Studios):

Alana:
1. Grand Canyon

2. Universal Studios

3. Family Reunion

Cameron:
1. NFL Game

2. Family Reunion

3. All Theme Parks

Tomas:

1. Family Reunion

2. Max Tour (Grand Canyon and Hoover Dam)

3. Universal Studios

Kristine:
1. Grand Canyon

2. Red Rock

3, Family Reunion

Keir:

1. The Batuu Star Wars world at Disney

2. Blizzcon

3. Family Reunion

Tara:

1. Family Reunion

2. Universal Studios

3. Niagara Falls

Brett:

1. Universal Studios

2. Family Reunion

3. Sky Zone Pica Rivera (Trampoline Park)

Our final vote was for the worst thing from the trip. We had to remove the ability to vote for farts as every answer was the fart that Tom did at (insert place here).

Worst Memory (Excluding Farts):

Alana:
The constant clouds of marijuana in LA and Flint

Cameron:

The mouldy Chick-fil-A burger, missing out on the Linkin Park Pop-Up store due to traffic coming back from Vegas

Tomas:
Fremont Street - too overstimulating

Kristine:
Blister Bugs in Vegas and the marijuana clouds

Keir:
Not being able to ride the Fast & Furious Ride and every time I had to pee, Brett would beat me to the adult urinal and I got stuck having to pee in the kid-sized one.

Tara:
The heat and rabid Shih-Tzus

Brett:
Not a fart - but having to go to the toilet after Tom has been in there.