TheLittleKatie
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Day 13
Sunday 4th October 2015
Part 2 - Harry Potter fun
Part 2 - Harry Potter fun
After some Men In Black fun, it was 5pm, so we went back to Diagon Alley to get ice cream!
Apparently on event nights like today, guests with two-park tickets, and HHN guests can enter Diagon Alley between 5 and 6.
We thought we’d have to leave at 5 so this was fun.
We just had to leave via the Hogwarts Express by 6pm.

We went to Florean Fortescue’s for ice cream!

I got chocolate raspberry and Jamie got vanilla with chocolate chips.
Why does this dragon always try to melt my ice cream as soon as I step outside!

Yum and wow.

We took our ice cream to the steps up the side of Gringotts.
This is a nice place to sit away from everyone.





Once we’d finished we walked straight onto Gringotts.



There was literally NO ONE there, they were sending empty cars!
We got one all to ourselves!

We said goodbye to Diagon Alley and headed to the Hogwarts Express.
The line was very long, but soon we arrived in Hogsmeade.

We rode Dragon Challenge first.
They’re very strict on loose items at Dragon Challenge.
I think there was an accident here a while ago.
I never take a bag to Universal to avoid the lockers, so I normally have a few items in my pockets, and I had to store them before riding.
We put everything in the locker and went back through the line, but I realised I still had a lip balm in my pocket..
I thought meh, it should be fine, right?
WRONG!
There are metal detectors up the line and everything.
Back down to the lockers we go.
We had to open it and take everything out and move it to a different locker, BAH.
We finally made it through the detectors and got in line for the Chinese Firebolt!
I hear that one is faster.
The two guys behind us in line were dressed in Harry Potter robes and THE WORKS, they were superfans, and they absolutely LOVED that we were from England!
One of them said he would love to live there one day because he loves our accents and our food!
They told us they were from Alabama and I asked if they drove here.
One of them replied “Yes, did you?”


It was just an automatic reply, but we all cracked up.
No, Alabama friend, we did not drive here from England.
Anyway we rode the Chinese Firebolt and it shook me up a bit.
I did not feel great afterwards!
We got our stuff from the locker… And Jamie’s phone was missing!
We freaked out because we realised he’d probably left it in the first locker when we moved everything, and that locker was now in use…
Thankfully a kind stranger had handed it in to the member of staff there!
Ugh I love people.
Anyway, I was feeling a little queasy after Dragon Challenge.
So what do you when you’re feeling motion-sick?
Ride Forbidden Journey, of course.
Logic.

Luckily I felt fine after standing in line for a few minutes, and I rode Forbidden Journey with no issues

After the ride, we went to Honeydukes to buy our friend Rob some Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans.



Then we went back up to the Forbidden Journey store at the exit of the ride to buy him a Hippogriff!
He’s a huge Harry Potter fan.

Here’s what we bought him:

I was looking around the shop while Jamie paid, when a guy stumbled out of the ride exit into the shop, PROJECTILE VOMITTED ALL OVER THE FLOOR, THEN RAN OFF.
Ugh it was horrendous.
It smelled so bad.
Thank goodness I wasn’t still feeling ill, otherwise I might have joined in.
We got out of there quick!
It was now time to leave the park, but I got to walk through Jurassic Park on the way out YAY.
It was very quiet and eerie, it was almost like we were in the movie!

There was no one else around this area!
We were all alone.
OR WERE WE.

We headed out through City Walk, and walked to the taxi area.

It was now 8pm…
Were we heading back to the hotel for the night?
ERRRM.
It’s our second to last night,
OF COURSE NOT.
Click for Day 13, part 3!