Universal Studios!

So Eric and I had wanted to take the kids to Disney while we were in Florida and we told them it was going to be part of their Christmas present this year.  The kids are all really into Harry Potter though, so instead of Disney we decided to go to Universal Studios where they have very elaborate Harry Potter themed areas of the park.

Ada has some issues with motion sickness, so I was a little concerned that she might not do very well on the rides.  Our very first ride was a Transformers 3D ride which she felt sick on almost immediately :(  Luckily the rest of the rides she loved and didn’t feel sick on at all.  Haydn tried out a few roller coasters, but decided that he does not really care for them and did not want to go on any more.  The Harry Potter town and shops were so amazing and definitely our favourite part of the parks.  We tried butterbeer (Amazing!!), and the kids each picked out a wand from the wand shop.

We ended up spending four days all together at the two Universal Studios theme parks.  We had park hopper passes so we were able to go from park to park on the same day.  We walked so much that all of our feet were killing us, and by the fourth day we were pretty much all ready to head back to the trailer early and just chill out and watch a movie. .

Our first ride on our second day at the park was a water raft ride that in hindsight we should not have gotten on…we were sopping wet when we got off and had to walk around the park for a couple of  hours dripping wet.  Eric had very wisely had decided not to join us on the ride.