Day 7 November 1, 2012 Part 1
On the other day at EPCOT, we were able to go to a lot of different food stands during the Food & Wine Festival and they were all delicious and tasted really well. It was way less crowded on Halloween day than I have thought especially the first day we were at EPCOT where it was really busy. We got to watched Illuminations that night when we came back and everyone (except my DB who have seen it a lot of times just like me) were all amazed by this show. This was by far their favorite nighttime show during our trip. Now this is our last full day in Florida which is the saddest part of the trip.
Once again like the other days in the morning, our aunt was up again cooking breakfast for the two of us. My aunt is a early type person where she like to go to bed late and get up early. It was very nice to have her come with us at the last second for this trip.
After we finished breakfast and clean up the kitchen, we all got dressed and met up with our other members of our group which they are right next door to us at the Sheraton Vistana Resort. We got in our cars and this time we head on over to Universal Studios Orlando which is one of our other things to do. Some of them were excited to go to Universal Studios Orlando but it wasnt like EPCOT or the other days during the trip.
We got to Universal Studios around 10am and we parked the car in the big parking lot. So we walked on that long journey through the parking lot and then through Universal City Walk.
It was a little busy walking through City Walk and it was a very nice day at the park where it wasnt that busy around that time.
When we were in the City Walk and about to head to the parks, Uncle S, R, M and Aunt H wanted to go to Universal Studios instead of Islands of Adventure. There were some attractions that they wanted to go instead of IoA. So my aunt, DB and I head on over to IoA while they went over to Universal Studios.
My DB was looking forward to coming back to IoA and see the Wizardy World of Harry Potter. But originally his GF was supposed to come with us during this trip before our aunt came with us at the last second. I knew that he was sad that she didnt come with us during the trip but he wanted to have a great time at IoA and see WWoHP after seeing it during our December 2011 trip.
We had to buy our tickets at the ticket booths and now we are in IoA.
Every time that I have gone through the turnstiles at IoA that it takes a while for the tickets to be scanned correctly. I have bad experience with the turnstiles at IoA for which this was the third year in a row that I had trouble going through the turnstile.
When we got in the park at Port of Entry the first thing we did was to head on over to the Wizardy World of Harry Potter since that was our main objective of coming to IoA. I would have not gone back to IoA that day and would have gone back to WDW. But I was here for my relatives and I was glad that I was able to come back to WDW during a short time.
We are now passing by Seuss Landing which is really different this time to see it where I have seen it wit the Christmas decorations.
It was not that busy at Seuss Landing where most of the guests are at the WWoHP.
Now entering the Lost Continent
Now we are entering the WWoHP which my aunt and DB are waiting for.
As always when I enter WWoHP, I get as many pictures as I can and it was a little busy that afternoon. I can tell that the Wand shop will have a long line so we are hoping that the line is not that long.
When we got to the Wand Shop queue, the wait time was already that long where it wasnt even worth waiting.
After passing through the Wand shop, we head on over towards Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey ride where you can see Hogwarts Castle.
The line for HPatFJ was only at 20 minutes but we were not planning on riding it since my aunt would not feel good.
So we head on over to Filchs Emporium store which is so crowded every time we are in it since the exit of the ride is leading to the store.
After looking through the store, my DB bought a scarf for his GF which is very nice of him. I didnt buy anything at the store since most of the merchandise I have seen are the same after the last few years. I was really disappointed that Universal Orlando has not updated the merchandise at the WWoHP. If they do new merchandise every year like WDW does with their merchandise, I would have bought something during this trip.
We head on out of the store and we head on back towards the center of the town.
When we were in the center of WWoHP, my DB wanted to go on the Dragon Challenge rollercoaster. I really didnt want to go on the rollercoaster especially since it was a feetless loop rollercoaster. But I agreed to do it just this once that day and we head on the ride while our aunt was waiting in the town until we came back from the ride.
I havent rode Dragon Challenge in a long time before WWoHp was even formed. It was an old rollercoaster during the early years of IoA. The interesting thing about this roller coaster that it is a duo coaster which are right next to one another.
After finishing Dragon Challenge, I was a little dizzy during the ride and it was nice to go the ride. We met up with our aunt and now it was time for a drink. Oh yeah it was time for a butter beer which we are always looking forward to have one while we are at IoA and the WWoHP.
So we head towards the butterbeer stand truck
We ordered a couple of butterbeer drinks that time and we got more later on that day since our other members of our group will like the drink so we brought bottles for the butterbeer.
After getting the butterbeer and putting them in bottles, we started to do more different attractions that day. But I will get to that on another post.
