Florida or Bust (part two)

Ahhh, finally another Florida trip post! This time it's all about Universal Studios.  We had to include this on our agenda because of two words:

HARRY and POTTER

We are huge Potter fans at my house and were so excited to see the new Harry Potter park at Universal.  It did not disappoint!!



The main attraction at the Harry Potter park was the ride inside Hogwarts Castle called Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey.  The line weaves all around the castle including the greenhouses, the great hall, a few classrooms, and even Dumbledore's office.  The ride itself was amazing!  We flew with Harry all around Hogwarts, interrupted a Quidditch match, and narrowly escaped a dragon! One of the best rides ever!

Hogsmeade Village was so neat!  My only complaint is that is was way too small. The wand store was seriously no bigger than my home office!  I wish they would have made everything bigger, because it was all so cool!!  The kids bought wands and chocolate frogs.  We also had to try the Butterbeer and Pumpkin Juice.  Both were really good!  WE LOVED HARRY POTTER!!

Of course, we explored the rest of the park as well.  We got completely drenched on the Jurassic Park water ride.  When I say drenched, I mean not an inch of dry skin to be found on any of us!  Good times!

The kids were obviously quite scared of all of the dinosaurs lurking around as shown below....fortunately, we all survived.

This was taken while standing in line for the Jimmy Neutron ride....stupid ride, but we seem to find the joy in even the dumbest things and couldn't stop laughing when it was over (probably because we were so glad to be off!).  We just all had a blast being together, and it didn't really matter what we were doing.  Seriously, one of the best family vacations I've ever been on because we all had so much fun together.

We also stopped to say HI to Scooby.  We love him at our house!

One final picture of two of the cutest chillins on the planet.

We loved our time at Universal and renewed our obsession with all things Harry Potter! Next stop...EPCOT!