Hope all my American readers had a wonderful Thanksgiving!!
Day 4 - Universal Studios/Islands of Adventure
As with the mornings prior, we woke up early and caught a cab by around 8am. We arrived at the park by 8:30. We would be heading into Universal Studios first and hitting up Islands of Adventure in the afternoon.
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I'm pretty sure they opened the park around 8:45 and we headed straight to Despicable Me! Despite being there early and getting in line right away, it was still about a 15 minutes wait. This ride is SUCH a slow loader (but totally worth the wait in my opinion!).
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I love Despicable Me and I love this ride
Mom (also a huge DM fan) and Dad both enjoyed as well! From there we headed to the Transformers ride. This was a new ride even for myself, so I was pretty excited! We got there to find no wait at all! We hopped right on and WOW was I impressed with this ride! I didn't take any pictures in this area
I meant to go back later on but it never end, oh well there's always next time right?
From there it time to head to SPRINGIELD! This was the part of the Dad was most excited about, and how cruel of me to drag him to 2 other rides before he could actually get there
I was excited too to see all the new things that were added since my January trip. I have to say, it looks AWESOME!
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We looked around a little and then went on the ride, which only had about a 5 minute wait.
Once we got off, it was time to leave Springfield (but only for a little while, we would be back soon!) and head over to where the Despicable Me characters would be coming out. This changed SO much since my last trip! In January it was like a mini-parade with floats and music. This time, the characters basically just walked out to greet and take pictures. I wanted to make sure Mom got pictures with everyone and she did with the exception of Edith who was not out for some reason.
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We also ran into these two!
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After this we rode The Mummy and Men In Black before heading back to Springfield for some lunch! We all got Krusty Burgers and ate in Moe's Tavern
I gotta say, it felt pretty cool!
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After eating we rode the new Kang & Kodos Twirl ride with no wait.
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We then saw the whole Simpsons family out meeting! The line was already cut, but they gave us the time of their next set and also let us know that Krusty & Sideshow Bob would be out meeting soon, so we waited around and met them!
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We then headed over to ET, which had about a 10-15 minute wait. I enjoy that ride for nostalgia purposes
Once we got off we headed back over to the Despicable Me ride area to check out the gift shop where I wish I could have brought home ALL of these....
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...And to meet a minion, since they aren't out during the first hour that the park is open.
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Then it was back to Springfield to wait for the Simpson family's next set.
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They were super fun and this made for a great picture!