Since we were at Uni not too long after Nebo and Smidgy, lets see how I can rip this chapter to shreds.
Now that I had these teeth pulled, I also quit shaving, figuring, even though i just shaved off my moustache, what's the use, I'm still going to look like a moron anyway.
And she now wants to see what I look like with a goatee, you know, hair on my chinny chin chin, since I also barely have any hair on my shinny shin shin. (thanks a lot, Mike, you started this)
ME?! I started this? Man I didn't even have my day in court and I'm already guilty by association. But I have to object, I do believe it was you that started this whole thing when you shaved off your moustache.
I merely went off of what you started. Here's my proof.
And Smidgy's not too happy with me,,, right before my tooth surgery,, I took my face off.
She doesn't like me without my face,, especially the one that's left with no hair on it..Sorry,,, I didn't want this stupid bushy thing in the way for the surgeon. I start out going for the Sam Elliott look, and end up like Wilfred Brimley. not good,, so I made it go aaway.
Smidgy and Lady H have something in common then. I usually grow a beard in winter and shave it off as it gets warmer. I have to give advanced notice of when I plan to shave it off so it's not much of a shock.
And it's already itching!)
And that's the exact reason I shave it off. Also, just curious. Are you growing the moustache and goatee? Or just the goatee? I don't think I've ever seen one without the other.
and then for dinner at Jimmie's Buffet, Margaritaville style.
This a must for us when we go.
Oh, but before you enter into the CityWalk area,, you have to go past a checkpoint to make sure you aren't bringing in any alcohol, as if somebody would do that.
How did you know Lady H and I did that? Oh I know. It's because you taught us.
Right before we rounded the bend to meet "checkpoint Chairlie' Smidgy slugged down the rest of her Fuzzy Cup drink.
And I wasn't in the mood to slug anything down just yet.
Smidgy glared at me,, "She's just going to take it away from you"
"We'll see".
After going through Diane's pack,, the girl asks me what's in my coffee cup.
"You just answered your own question" I told her.
She laughed, nodded her head to go on, and Smidgy glared even harder.
I'll have to remember this for next time. I do enjoy some Kahula in my coffee though. So technically I wouldn't be lying.
And once again,,, The Hollywood Rip, Ride, Rocket. Or is it Rock it?
Rockit actually. Not the best coaster at Uni, but not bad. D'Sis and I only rode this one 4 times. Or was it 5? If she's still around, JagQT may be able to tell me. She counted how many times we went on each coaster.
Back to Island's of Adventure.
That was fast. Not surprising though. With all the improvements going on at the moment, I felt like there wasn't much to see on the Uni side. Did you get the same impression? I can hardly wait until its all done though.
It was just getting dark, and our first stop on the way to Potterville was to see the new and improved Spideyman.
Well, less than a ten minute wait,, no point in even using our front of line privelages. As for them making it new and improved? Well, they did, and yes, they did that too.
Only it's not as good!
At least to me,, but she agreed with me as well.
And I'll agree with you to.
The new digital images are sharper, more detailed,,, the sound improved as well, the simulation tied in even tighter to what's happending on screen.
But the OMG factor isn't quite as it used to be.
Especially what used to be the heart stopping fall at the end,,, now it so clear it, it's too cartoony,,, not scary like it was. The feeling of falling 40 stories just isn't there anymore. And for me,, no,, I'm not seeing 3-D like I used to see before,,, but again,, even Diane was;n't quaking like she used to do at the end of it. Oh, itj's still good, it just lost that little something extra that it had.
I really don't remember what it was like the first time we went. We rode it twice just to see if we missed the wow factor the first time, but nope. It was fun, but won't be a must the next trip.
Now I can hardly wait for Transformers though. If it's as good in Orlando, as it is in Hollywood, it blows spiderman away IMO. Of course if you are reading our time dragging, lengthy TR, you'll know we loved this ride.
Continuing on, we passed by Dudley Do=Right's Ripsaw Falls, and apparently I took a short video,,, not sure why,,, maybe after I load it and watch it I'll know.
But we weren't going to ride this now befor dinner, not in the mood to sit in an air conditioned restaurant in November in soaked clothes.
And soaked you will be. Good call on this one. Best to hit all the water rides right away.
The sun is setting fast now, we keep on walking back to Hogwarts. And see the sign now:
Forbidden Journey; 60 minutes.
or was it JoeBiden's Journey; 60 years?
I didn't think the wait times still go that high. I guess that's what I get for thinking.
I could not possibly even descibe the route we took.
The best I can say was it was long;
Down a dimly lit long hallway, down a flight of stairs;
another long hallway, past the bones of Peter Petigrew;
This is Hogwarts version of Magic Kingdom's "Utilidors", for employees only. (or for Buzz who's ute was just used as a door.)
A couple of bends in the road,,, and now he stops at an elevator and pushes some buttons, we are going back up now.
For not beginning to be able to describe the route you took, that seems like a pretty detailed description to me.
Another long hallway and finally we end up in a room with about 6 other people, just off to the side of the loading area.
And I kept wondering how did these other idiots get here?
Well since you were right there with the idiots, does that mean you're an......?
I need a t-shirt the same color as a cardboard box, and on the front and back , "FRAGILE" in huge letters.
Hmm. I thought a t-shirt saying "BEWARE" or "WARNING" would be more appropriate.
Then the most surprising thing happened to me on the ride:
after this morning I couldn't wait to ride it at night when I can see better, I just knew it would be an incredible ride,, and see better I did!
And I was kind of unimpressed now.
To use the phrase so many others use in descriptions:
Meh
The ride vehicle and all it's movements was totally impressive,,, but the matching up with the movie screens around you seemed like hit or miss. I also thought the screens were still grainy looking,,, everything stilll mostly at night, and dark, with Harry somewhere constantly shouting, "C'mon, let's go,, look out, bloody hell!"
Oh, it's still a good ride,,,
Too bad you only found it meh. Definitely my favorite ride at Uni.
We all have our opinions, but mine matters more because I can still see better than you can.
Alright, alright. Kidding of course. No need to get hostile.
One thing though,, the whole area looks really cool at night, well done there.
Whoops. I guess I should've waited until you were completely done with this portion before posting all the pics then. Sorry about that.
One thing I wanted to do but forgot about, was to look for a restroom to see if Moaning Myrtle was peaking into the urinals. I thought that would be a nice touch, to have her image show up in a mirror,,, or a soundtrack playing of her flirting with everybody.
Can you imagine how many men would be missing the urinals if they had her appearing in the mirrors? It's bad enough you can hear her in there. It would be fun if they would've rigged up one of the toilets to splash water when she goes diving in.
Time to go eat, I'm hungry.
For once, no wait really at Margaritaville, got seated right smack dab in front of the stage with a white guy with a guitar singing to us.
Were you sitting outside by chance?
Singing.
The whole time.
Did I mention we were right in front of him?
I could have untied his shoes.
Maybe you should've. Then he would've stopped singing.
Now, I know I haven't kept up with music much lately, but how can somebody sing for an hour,,, and I only really recognized one song?
If its the same guy while we were there, at least you recognized one song. I didn't recognize any.
And the song I did know, I didn't like; "Good times Charlie's got the Blues" Maybe I'm stupid,, but for some reason I kind of expected to hear something by a guy named Jimmy Buffet.
If you sit inside, you'll get a lot of Jimmy Buffet music.
We split an order of the Volcano Nachos,,, and believe me,,, that's all youneed to do in here.
"I don't know, where I'm a gonna go when the volcano blows."
Mmmm. Those are good, and you're right: enough for 3 people. We actually got a free appetizer on our last trip and that's what we ordered. We'll have to get our volcano nacho fix when we go to Vegas in April. That and our 100 oz. Margarita.
It was still kind of early, so made a drink in our DISNEY refillable mugs and took a walk around the lobby/grounds/pool area. Tomorrow we are going to start out by the pool when we wake up,, no rush to anything just take it as it comes.
As the way a vacation should be.
Darn. Work is starting to get in the way. I'll comment more later.
While at the parks, if you try to compare one to the other, then you'll find you won't have a good time. Especially if you're a WDW faithful. You'll be looking for every little negative thing you can find. I've read a lot of threads on here where people say they didn't have a good time at Uni because Disney does this better than Uni, or you would never see Disney doing that. Gotta keep an open mind. 
