Day 19 - the day we went to Hogwarts

31st July 2013

Today we went to Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure, starting with the latter and had an amazing day! 

I can't miss out breakfast - we had a buffet at the hotel with was pretty naughty, then caught the free shuttle to the parks. We were sooo excited.

We found a Christmas shop for Fil

We got soaking wet on most of the rides hence a lack of photos of us.

We nearly peed ourselves when we got to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

We resisted butterbear And chocolate frogs. The best ride was inside Hogwarts - like a virtual fly around, fighting dragons, the womping and deatheaters. I did not enjoy the spiders we had to avoid though - I screamed the place down. 

We carried on through the park, regressing to small children when we got to the Suess section. We love the Lorax.

Then we were onto Universal Studios.

Here is mainly 3/4D experiences, but we did find our favourite ride - Hollywood Rip  Ride Rockit. You chose the song you listened to on the way round and it blares out. Me and Loz both chose Kanye West so we could both sing (scream) along together. You were also filmed all the way round as if it were a music video. The camera was mainly on Lauren and as hilarious as it was, she did swear most of the way round. Haha. 

We watched the Universal parade. It was mainly for kids but I love the minions so we stuck around for it, mainly cringing at the costumes and choreography the dancers had (except for one set of girls which I took 2000 photos of for dance costume ideas for the next show). 

We did the whole park, not taking many pictures. When we got to Springfield I took some because my dad loves the Simpsons and know he'd have loved to go to Moes. I hope he can see these very soon.

We were so shocked at how quickly we got through Universal (but relieved because we have so much to get through in Orlando). We ate dinner in N Italian on CityWalk. I had crab ravioli and it was gorgeous. It was spoilt, however, when the heavens and Nashville monsoon part 2 took over. But that's Florida for you. Loving it so far, lots of love xxxxxx