esquared221
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When I woke the next day the constant drip-drip-drip of my nose from the previous day had slowed and I was sniffley and coughing now but at least I wouldn't need a pound of rough napkins to get me through the day!
We left the Villas at Wilderness Lodge in the morning and made our way off Disney property. We were spending the last 2 nights at Leow's Royal Pacific Resort onsite at Universal. On our way we made a run to Walmart again for some things (cold medicine, more blister bandages and diapers!) and also ate at the McDonald's there to try and save money now that we didn't have a dining plan to rely on anymore. After that we dropped all our stuff off in the room at the resort which was lovely but felt small and disappointing after staying a week at the Villas. RP also has boats that run to the Universal parks so we hopped one and headed out.
The Despicable Me movies are right up there with Disney movies in our house so we did the Minnion "ride" first (awesome) and then the kids and I did the Shrek one next while Hubs rode some crazy roller coaster. After that we did the Transformers ride which DD says is her favorite from the whole trip while DS napped on Hubs. When it was time to swap the sleeping little I made for a shady place and sat on a bench to relax. Some characters that I'm assuming were from the Mummy came by our way and one of the men on stilts made everyone laugh when he stood above an oblivious teenage girl who was looking at souvenirs at a near by cart. When she turned to see an abnormally tall and crazily dressed man hanging above her shoulder she let out a shriek that had could be heard from very far away. It was hilarious
We did the MIB ride with DD and then did lunch at Krusty Burger and tried a Flaming Moe.
The kids were excited to play in the Curious George area so we went there next and played until the park closed and we were unceremoniously kicked out. No Disney hospitality here
It was only 6p or so AND HOT so we checked out the pool at the resort. It was a nice pool which included a sandy beach and a boat with water canons and fun splash area. Unfortunately there was an obnoxious kid spraying people in the main pool from the kid's play area (the cool boat thing) and it was all I could do to not encourage Hub's desire to take the other canon directly to that little jerk's face. Hey, I have kids and 'kids will be kids' as they say but this one was a jerk. He was spraying people he didnt know which included really little ones swimming with their families. I couldn't tell who he was there with or who he belonged to but they were either not there or also jerks who didn't care that their brat was ruining other families' pool time. This was after an afternoon full of dodging teenagers all over the park (there were LOTS of school trips there) and trying to help my kids avoid getting beaned in the head in the ball pit at the Curious George park where the older kids had moved in and were picking off younger ones with ball cannons from the level above. Apparently the theme of this day was other people's obnoxious brats making me think not nice thoughts about kids. Ok. Rant over.
After that there was a Hawaiian style torch lighting ceremony with a hula dancer. DD was completely enthralled and after the fire dancer was finished she bombarded him with questions about how he did that without getting burned
This is DD trying out the hula dance
I had ordered a ridiculously over-priced pina colada which I found AFTER I purchased it that couldn't be removed from the bar area so I tried to pound it as fast as possible so we could get back to the room for bed time. BRAIN FREEZE! Luckily (or maybe unluckily
) it wasn't very strong so there was no ill effect from drinking it so fast. Off to our room we went where the kids fell asleep watching 'Say Yes to the Dress' (LOL!! there was nothing else on so they chose that) while I relaxed in bed crushing some candies and Hubs went down to the bar where he refilled our souvenir glass from the pina colada and had a drink in solitude. Ah... 
We left the Villas at Wilderness Lodge in the morning and made our way off Disney property. We were spending the last 2 nights at Leow's Royal Pacific Resort onsite at Universal. On our way we made a run to Walmart again for some things (cold medicine, more blister bandages and diapers!) and also ate at the McDonald's there to try and save money now that we didn't have a dining plan to rely on anymore. After that we dropped all our stuff off in the room at the resort which was lovely but felt small and disappointing after staying a week at the Villas. RP also has boats that run to the Universal parks so we hopped one and headed out.
The Despicable Me movies are right up there with Disney movies in our house so we did the Minnion "ride" first (awesome) and then the kids and I did the Shrek one next while Hubs rode some crazy roller coaster. After that we did the Transformers ride which DD says is her favorite from the whole trip while DS napped on Hubs. When it was time to swap the sleeping little I made for a shady place and sat on a bench to relax. Some characters that I'm assuming were from the Mummy came by our way and one of the men on stilts made everyone laugh when he stood above an oblivious teenage girl who was looking at souvenirs at a near by cart. When she turned to see an abnormally tall and crazily dressed man hanging above her shoulder she let out a shriek that had could be heard from very far away. It was hilarious
We did the MIB ride with DD and then did lunch at Krusty Burger and tried a Flaming Moe.
The kids were excited to play in the Curious George area so we went there next and played until the park closed and we were unceremoniously kicked out. No Disney hospitality here
It was only 6p or so AND HOT so we checked out the pool at the resort. It was a nice pool which included a sandy beach and a boat with water canons and fun splash area. Unfortunately there was an obnoxious kid spraying people in the main pool from the kid's play area (the cool boat thing) and it was all I could do to not encourage Hub's desire to take the other canon directly to that little jerk's face. Hey, I have kids and 'kids will be kids' as they say but this one was a jerk. He was spraying people he didnt know which included really little ones swimming with their families. I couldn't tell who he was there with or who he belonged to but they were either not there or also jerks who didn't care that their brat was ruining other families' pool time. This was after an afternoon full of dodging teenagers all over the park (there were LOTS of school trips there) and trying to help my kids avoid getting beaned in the head in the ball pit at the Curious George park where the older kids had moved in and were picking off younger ones with ball cannons from the level above. Apparently the theme of this day was other people's obnoxious brats making me think not nice thoughts about kids. Ok. Rant over.
After that there was a Hawaiian style torch lighting ceremony with a hula dancer. DD was completely enthralled and after the fire dancer was finished she bombarded him with questions about how he did that without getting burned
This is DD trying out the hula dance
I had ordered a ridiculously over-priced pina colada which I found AFTER I purchased it that couldn't be removed from the bar area so I tried to pound it as fast as possible so we could get back to the room for bed time. BRAIN FREEZE! Luckily (or maybe unluckily
) it wasn't very strong so there was no ill effect from drinking it so fast. Off to our room we went where the kids fell asleep watching 'Say Yes to the Dress' (LOL!! there was nothing else on so they chose that) while I relaxed in bed crushing some candies and Hubs went down to the bar where he refilled our souvenir glass from the pina colada and had a drink in solitude. Ah... 
)so we booked it for WWoHP to try and beat some of the lines. We got right in line for the Wand Choosing at Olivander's which would be a first for all of us and is very popular. It. was. AWESOME. The WWoHP is the only place in any other non-Disney park that I have found that obsessive attention to detail that just makes every little thing feel magical (thank you J.K. Rowling for being such a stickler in this park's creation!!).
I had no idea this play area existed and I am so glad Hubs suggested it. It was just as fun for me as for the kids! DS clung to me nervously while we explored the cool, dark caves and again when we climbed the rope bridges but on our second trip through he did most of it with the help of his big sis!
I was trying to find our way back to our stroller for a drink of water but we ended up passing the McGrew Zoo where DS saw other little kids playing in a water area and so we HAD to go in. It was HOT by that point so I took his shorts and shoes off and let him romp and play in the water while I put my feet in as well. Once Hubs and DD caught up to us I suggested to Hubs that maybe we could use that last ticket for a Disney park that evening (Hubs had added it on when purchasing our tickets because it was one of those buy a week and get an extra day for $10/ person things). He had mentioned it on our last day at MK when I was feeling sad about leaving and we had done just about everything we wanted to do at Universal and had some day left. 
Of course. The first hot day up here and the AC is in desperate need of a recharge. We stopped for dinner in Portsmouth NH on our way and then continued home from there. The kids were happy to see the cats and we were happy to sleep in our own beds 
I'm kind of sad it's done though so lets talk about Disney some more 
Hubs and I have been talking about replacing it with a new model and from we can see that issue has been fixed.
