Day Seven of Vacation: Universal!

We had a lot to do on our final day of vacation! Island of Adventure and Universal Studios opened at 9 and closed at 6. That's a lot of rides and fun in a short amount of time! Danny has never been to either parks, so he was convinced it couldn't be done...I on the other hand knew different! Danny was so freakin' excited...he was making up songs and dancing in his seat the entire way to the park!

First up....Island of Adventure. Danny was so excited to ride the Hulk coaster, so that was first on the list. Then it was Superman and enjoying the sites.

That morning I had the brilliant idea to change memory cards. I'm snapping away pictures, go to review them and oh.my.God....where are my pictures?! So, I had a mild-freak-out before the rest of the day. Alas the pictures were found...but not before I took the "lets see if its working" picture...

After that fiasco we did our only water ride of the vacation! Jurasic Park...seriously, I love that ride. I also love that the do-do-do-do-do song gets stuck in your head for the rest of the day.

THEN! We traveled into the new part of the park: Harry Potter. I'm not a fan, but I was excited for this. And so was everyone else in Orlando. I found all the people that were missing from the rest of our vacation...it was packed. We stood in the longest line for the awesome Harry Potter ride and I can honestly say I was scared during it. And I swear something touched me.

Everyone was standing in line for Butterbeer. So we jumped on board. Only to find out that it was non-alcoholic. That was quite dissappointing.

We finished up a few rides and headed to Margaritaville for lunch and a few drinks. I thought it would be fun if we went to the Blue Man Group...but when we found out that tickets were 90 bucks we crossed it right off the list!

Then we went to Universal Studios. I've done all the rides there...and they were just as fun as I remember. They have a new coaster and it was my favorite ride of  vacation! They take a video of you (that you can buy for the ripoff price of $40!) and you get to pick the music you listen to. You need to ride it!

After our fun day in the sun (the only day I was actually warm!) we headed back to the hotel. We had no plans for the night so we decided to wing it. We got room service....pizza...classy! Then we went down to the pool to watch Toy Story and drink some margaritas! It was the perfect way to end vacation!

The next morning we packed up, loaded up the car, had our final Disney breakfast and got on the road. An astounding 8 1/2 hours later we were back in Raleigh picking up Little Miss Miley. She got a fairly good report card from her grandparents...she dug, barked...and escaped twice. EEK!

We had such a great vacation. At the time it felt like it was going by so slow, but after writing about everything I feel like it FLEW by! We've already started talking about where we want to go next year for vacation. Vegas, anyone?