Men in Black.
The boys were so cute in their robes.
Practicing for the Hagrid ride.
If anyone reading this is going to Universal make sure you check out Knockturn Alley in Diagon Alley. It is so cool and there were lots of trick with the interactive wands!
Pteranodon fliers.
I wanted to go ride Hulk (which Ike was super duper bummed he couldn't ride) so as we were leaving I went to do that while mom took the kids on the log ride that got you soaked. We figured since we were leaving anyway they may as well do it then! Well as it turns out I checked the Universal app after I got off the Hulk and the wait time for the new Hagrid ride was lower than it had been yet. So I convinced mom and the kids to suffer through with wet clothes so we could ride it. The 90 minute wait only ended up taking 60 minutes so it was worth it!
Waiting in line, the theming was really cool.
The kids made us ride in the side cars. So kind of them.
Definitely everybody's favorite ride at Universal!
Dave and She-Ra.
We were very glad we got to ride the new ride on Wednesday...our plan was to get up really early on Thursday and try to get to it first. The lines for doing that were around 2 hours so this was a huge improvement to that!
After we left the kids swam again and hung out with their new British friend Conner. There were tons of people from Europe and Australia-it was fun to hear all the accents everywhere.
Thursday we met up with the Getz family for one more hurrah in Diagon Alley.
Kids with Stan Shunpike and the Knight bus.
We loved seeing the Getz crew!
One last group picture in Diagon Alley.
The kids were really excited about getting this lanyards-Josh's parents gave them each some spending money and they deliberated long and hard on what to get!
Friday morning my mom left for her flight pretty early so the kids and I hung out with her until she left then we got all of our stuff together and checked our bags with the front desk before heading to the parks one more time.
Breakfast at the Leaky Cauldron.
Ike really wanted to ride the Mummy one more time and Dave was a great sport and went with us again. He did not enjoy this ride but it was so nice of him to do it again for his brother!
For whatever reason the kids didn't want to take the train to Islands of Adventure so we started walking back out the front of the park to get around and realized that the ET ride was open (it opens late every day so we missed it all the other days).
It was a really fun ride!
Then we walked around the more kiddy area for a little bit and met a bunch of characters.
Getting this picture brought me so much joy. Dave used to love watching Dora!
Bumblebee.
Found Popeye walking down the road.
We walked over to Hogsmeade again and bought some candy before heading out through the Marvel world.
Wolverine.
The kids swam for about a half hour back at the hotel but it started storming and they kicked everybody out. We decided we'd just go ahead and start for the airport and that went super smooth. Usually we have to wait forever at MCO but there was basically no line through security so that was awesome.
Ready for our flight!
We had such a fantastic trip but we were all excited to get home and see Josh and to relax a bit before school and work started up again. Once we finished with Disney we didn't overdo it any other day but it was still a lot of walking and being out in the heat!
I cannot thank my mom enough for suggesting we go and providing most of the funding! We are already talking about going again in 5 years when the kids are older. I am totally down for that :)
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