You are a great dad!
Sweet 16 birthday trip is probably the best gift you could have given your daughter
Awesome pictures!
Thank you! She really enjoyed it! She was very appreciative for 3 days. The fourth day - not so much.
WOW that's a great arrival time considering you started the day in Buffalo!
Excited to follow along!
It was great on paper - that's for sure!!
Glad you got started! Despite the early morning, it is pretty cool to wake up in NY and be in the parks practically by opening time!
It's hard to argue with a 20 minute wait for Gringotts!
Wow! I can't believe how early you got up. We have sworn off any flights before 8AM but more 9AM if we can swing it. It's just not worth our sanity, and while our relationship is solid, that's just not a good way to start off a trip. We don't like yelling at each other.
It's funny, I think we get to the airport more efficiently with these early flights. There's no time for goofing around. When we have an afternoon flight - DW spends 3 hours to get ready to leave the house. On this - she does it all the night before and we just hop out of bed and go.
Your early start did pay off for getting to the park fairly early, but 70 minute waits for rides, nope. I got better things to do.
Oh yeah, we weren't waiting for that. We DID end up doing Minions with about a 40 minute wait later in the trip. Overall though 30 minutes was sort of our limit. I just lose interest in almost every ride when the wait exceeds an hour.
I liked your acronym YASR, did you make that up or is a board wide thing?
YASR = Yet another Screen Ride - that's my own Acronym. I don't think it has caught on across the boards, but I'd like it to! "Oh, looks like Universal's building a YASR." Make sure everyone starts to use it - maybe they'll stop building them. (And too their credit, Hagrid's is not a YASR.)
Great start, and a late happy 16th birthday to your DD.
My DD, wanted to go to the beach. Hence, 10 days in KW for her 16th. For her 18th, we are doing the parks, right before she leaves for college, even though she won't be 18 until a week after school starts.
Enjoy reading your report. And yeah, we have done those oh so before crack of dawn flights. We tend to then book the latest ones for on the way home.
WE also booked a late one going home. If I'm spending all this money - wanted to give us the opportunity for 4 full days, though in the end we didn't really spend four full days.