Ok so here we are on day 7, you will notice the title for this entry is a very simple 'Day 7 - US/IOA' when really it should be
'Oh my gosh, Ruth is finally going to the Wizarding World of Harry freaking Potter. Eeeeeeep!
I'm a big big Potter fan and as soon as I heard they were building WWoHP I knew I needed to go. So I was very excited to be going and even more excited because we had early entry.
So that morning all 8 of us were up very very early ready to get a taxi to IOA. We entered IOA at7am and recieved a Gryffindor badge each. I was really pleased with my badge much to the amusement of others. I like to think that if Hogwarts was real and should I have gone school there that I would be in Gryffindor (though the likelyhood is that I would actually be in Hufflepuff

)
We headed off for our complimentary breakfast at the Three Broomsticks. Breakfast was okay, nothing special. James wasn't overly impressed because he doesn't 'do' toast or porridge. However I was fine because I love a good round of toast. After breakfast we took time to chill and take photos.
After we were finished taking in our surroundings we headed over to Forbidden Journey. I was dying to go on this even though the way it was described to me made me very nervous. We rode it and it was fun, I did like it - well most of it. I jumped when a dementor popped up and I wasn't overly keen on going on my back, but it wouldn't put me off doing it again.
Next up was time for me to get myself a wand! It was on my to do list so I made us all queue up outside Ollivanders for the show. I will admit it, I was a little sad not to be picked
Both me and Mum came out with wands. Mum brought the Harry Potter wand and I brought the Holly wand. I didn't want somebody elses wand. I also decided it had a phoenix feather in the middle.... yes I took it all waaay to seriously.
After we had finished buying wands and what not we decided to head to US because there were more rides over there that we would all go on (and also Jaws

was there)
Of course along the way we took a few more pictures.
Me & the train. Dad was well impressed that it actually was a train
Aiming the wand at an all to willing MIL
If this wand was real my Dad would be very dangerous LOL.
We made it over to US and I wanted to go straight to Jaws but I was stopped in my tracks. Boo! We were going to ride things in the order we went past them (I just wanted to go see my lil Sharky friend).
We were about to go on Shrek 4D but we spotted the Simpsons lurking around. My Dads a big fan of Homer and say's he's go the right idea. So we stopped from some pics with our fave family.
Ettys & Simpsons (I'll let you guess which ones are which

) Oh and excuse that man on the left, he just would not get out my way no matter where I stood!
The Simpsons were fun to meet, Bart and Lisa kept fighting and Homer... well he was just being Homer.
We finally got on Shrek 4D, followed by Twister.
We were getting closer to my Jaws (I am obsessed with the film/ride.... absoultely gutted that it's gone. I may have shed a little tear...


)
But before that glorious moment when me and the shark were reunited we came past the Mummy. I actually love this ride, it's ace. My Dad, Mum and FIL stayed behind. we gave our belonging to them (along with my hat that had my Just Married badge on). When we come off the ride we found my Mum and FIL sat on the floor next to each other. It looked like they were just married and they had no idea.
We were going to do Jaws next (eek!) but then it started to hammer it down with rain. So instead of that we did Disaster. James was disapointed with it because he said it wasn't all that much different than before the refurb, only the pre-show had changed. I wasn't all that fussed to be honest.
By time we got off the rain had died down so we headed for Jaws. I am pretty sure someone must not like me up there because when we got there a ride attendant told us Jaws was down. Pfft!
We decided at this point to go eat. I am bad at taking photos of food and I can't really remember what I ate, probably chicken.
Everywhere I look there was Jaws.
We finished eating and Jaws was still down. We decided to temporarily skip past Men In Black to go on the Simpsons. Not matter how many times I go on this I still think it's ace. All 8 of us rode it and all 8 really liked it. I think my Dad enjoyed queuing up for it almost as much as the ride.
The rain had started again when we got off the Simpsons so we ran for MIB. I like this ride, it makes me laugh because I'm so bad at aiming. Also it was another ride all 8 of us would enioy.
We decided to try Jaws again and to my excitement it was up and going again!
I loved the queue for this, I loved watching the little tellys. I also loved the little nods to the film.
Trying to pretend I'm not all that excited.
poor Jaws
Right erm yeah! We came off the ride and I wish I'd have known then that it was going to close down.
Next up was E.T. I actually don't like the film and I find the ride hilariously weird. The best bit is where you come off the ride and E.T says your name. He can't say 'Verity' so poor SIL got some bizarre version of her name, very funny.
As we walked these guys were leaving.
We were all getting hungry and we had decided earlier in the day that we would eat at the Hard Rock Cafe. Before we reached HRC me, James, my Sister & SIL rode the Mummy again whilst my Dad, Mum, FIL & MIL headed off for the Make up show (which they some how managed to miss

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We all met up and went into HRC. It was one of the best meals of our trip, I had the salmon and it was amazing.
By this time it was about 9pm and everyone was getting tired so we decided to head back to POP. As we headed back in the taxi it started to rain again but this time it didn't stop.
We went to bed that night fearing the worst for our MK shoot. Our alarms were set for 4.30am and our fingers were crossed for good news in the morning.
Next up: Photo shoot is in danger.
ETA: I have just realised that I used the word Jaws 10 times (well 11 now). I have issues.