All Good Things Must Come to an End

Universal Day 4

Our last day in Orlando was spent in Islands of Adventure. This picture proves I really was there...  

We started the morning off racing to Ollivander's Wand Shoppe. We were up and in the hour long wait line by 8:15. Pretty good considering the night before wasn't an early night.  We met some nice people in line behind us, and she took a family pic of us with the Hogwarts castle behind us.  As you can see, my hair was up in a ponytail before we finished our first activity of the day.   Gotta love humidity.

Watching Madison in the wand shoppe pretty much made my day. Very intense and excited. She was a little bummed that she wasn't chosen for the demonstration. I'm pretty sure she would've had a stroke. Way too much excitement!

Madison spotted this guy as we were leaving the park.  We had to chase him down to get a picture.  I'm sure he thought we were all freaks. 

SNAPE!!

Yesterday as we were leaving the park, a lady offered us her family's Express Passes. They had decided to not go to parks the next day and she wanted them put to use. And put to use we did!!! We rode every ride in the park at least 2 and some 3-4 times each. It was never more than a 15 minute wait in the Express line. Thank you nice lady who gave them to us... After the wand shoppe, we jumped in line for the Dragon Challenge roller coaster

and the riding fury began. We rode rides ALL day. Fun fun fun!!! Here are some pics from the day. We definitely had a full one!

Mason with Fish lips...Nice.

The girls weren't so thrilled about Seuss Landing but they were good sports.  Mason enjoyed it more than he would admit.   He rode the big roller coasters, but still has a fear of them.  I think he liked the break.

 Seuss Train

One of our all time favorites-  The Grinch

Perfect standoff.   Love this pic!

The kids loved this ride.  It was the Disney Teacups on steroids.  They would have that thing spinning so fast that just watching it made me nauseous.  Mason would be laughing so hard he couldn't breathe.  Fun...

Woody Woodpecker.... Nice pic of Madison :-)

Poseidon's Fury 

 This was a show that filmed some special effects as you were riding the ride and then made a video of them.  They asked for volunteers and Stan was volunteered by his teenagers.  He was a good sport and was pretty funny.

 

This was my favorite ride. Dr. Doom's Fear Fall. It shoots you 200 ft straight up in the air and drops you almost all of that. LOVE it! The girls and I rode it 4 times!

 Of course we couldn't leave without a couple of Harry Potter tshirts. 

As parents, you know you did a good job of vacation planning when your kids are sad to leave and ask when they can come back.  We had a great time at Universal Studios!