I Now, I must know...what part of Indiana are you from??? I am in Greencastle.
We aren't too far from you! We're near Indy.
Picking up where I left off at IOA. O and I were hanging out in the Discovery Center when DH and the older kids found us. We walked back so that I could ride Jurassic Park River Adventure. K decided to sit with O and let DH ride with us. After that we headed to Thunder Falls Terrace to eat. The food was really good here. Most of us got the rotisserie chicken dinners. The only complaint is that they don't have kids size drinks (and drinks are not included with the kids meal) so the kids wound up with HUGE drinks each.
After lunch we decided we'd hit the rest of the water rides since it was starting to get warm.
Word of warning. Universal likes to get you wet on their water rides. Not wet. Soaked.
Dudley Do Right first for me and the older 3 kids. See the ponchos? Worthless. We were wet enough from the ride, and then we got to the back where DH let Owen shoot streams of water at us from the cannons on the bridge. If you look closely, you can see R and I ducking for cover
Just a tad wet
Next up, David and the older 3 on Popeye. O was not tall enough to ride it, so we walked around the bridges to watch. I have a great picture of DH and K having taken off their t-shirts and were literally wringing the water out of them, but they threatened to post an embarrassing picture of me if I posted a picture of them without shirts.
After that we let the kids run around on Me Ship, Olive. R & O loved being able to squirt water on the people riding the Popeye ride.
The view from the top
After that the boys went to ride Dueling Dragons on both sides (like 5 times each since there was no wait!) while I took R and O to Suess Landing.
I was so sick of rhyming sentences when we left there! The kids loved playing in the playground and the carousel was fun. We rode the carousel 3 times without getting off (except to switch characters!)
The Cat in the Hat ride was fun, and the turns are surprising!
The wait time for the Trolley ride was way off. It said 10 minutes, and as we were getting close to the front, they made the announcement that the wait was now 40 minutes from the back of the line. We still had to wait almost 30 minutes to ride
Dh called and said they were going to go ride Hulk again since we were in line for the trolley.
Since there were 3 of us, I let R & O ride together and I got to sit by some unknown man in front of them. This was not good because when the kids got in, they both pulled their restraints way too tight. The lady loosened O's, but not R's and she kept saying she couldn't breathe. I couldn't turn around to see O because I was wedged in. O loved it, but R didn't like it, and I'm sure it's because of how tightly she was stuck in there.
After the trolley we stopped to see Cat in the Hat and Guy from Green Eggs and Ham. As we were leaving later we saw Thing 1 & 2 and Sam I Am, but the lines were long and we had to hurry to meet the boys.
On the way out we stopped for One Fish, Two Fish. If you follow the rhyme you don't really get that wet. I'm surprised, because R & O were piloting and we didn't get wet at all, except for where we sat in water. R took a bunch of pictures with our waterproof disposable camera, but they aren't developed yet.
After that it was time to meet the big boys over by Hulk. J & K were in the arcade, so I took O over to meet the XMen. He was totally not impressed and wouldn't talk to them at all, and in the picture, I'm holding him and he's trying to get down. We skipped Captain America because he had the longest character line we had seen the entire day.
Since we had done most of the big things in IOA, we decided to hop over to Universal so that I could ride Simpsons since everyone else had ridden it the day I was sick.
The wait for Simpsons was 30 minutes, and O was not being cooperative, so we decided to skip it since we had half a day the next day to finish up our must-do's at US/IOA. We did stop for a character meeting. O was not into it
We walked on around and I got to ride MIB. O was too short, so DH sent me on ahead and they got a drink and people watched. It seemed to have put O in a better mood. The ride was fun, but it's hard to decide what to shoot at. Just about the time you get the hang of it, it spins you off course!
We walked past Jaws, but decided against it since R had hated it the last time, and O was not in a good mood. We thought it would be one we'd go back for on Tuesday, but we didn't make it back around. DH sent me to ride Mummy with K and J, and R, our not so brave soul, decided to ride it with me (even though after she rode it Saturday she swore she'd never ride it again!) I LOVED IT! So much fun. You really don't know where you are going next.
While we were riding, O and DH went for some photo ops
By this time, everyone was hungry, so we decided to go Hard Rock (coupon +
AAA discount!) On the way out we stopped to listen to the Blues Brothers for a minute. Honestly, the lady who sang before them was way better than they were!
Hard Rock was okay. They take your picture when you walk in, and then bring it around later. It comes with a 5X7, 2 wallets, keychain and a magent for $20 (cheaper than WDW's pictures!) We had a great waitress who was singing all the song with me (K and J were hiding) Even with the discount and coupon it was still pretty expensive. One nice thing that was because it's so loud in there, no one noticed O being obnoxious because he was so tired
As we were leaving I said "we have to get a picture of the Hard Rock sign" Too bad it didn't say Hard Rock!
Once we got back to the villa, DH took everyone swimming while I started packing
The next day was our check out day
you poor thing. it's bad when the mom gets sick. So glad you decided to go to MNSSHP wit hthe older kids, for all the reasons you mentioned. Seems the DH never mind staying at home & resting 
guess we run them ragged at Disney. All your pics from the party and MK are great! Looking forward to some beach pics 
. We might have to schedule that in next time. You do need a do over trip, it sucks when the budget doens't cooperate 
Mom's just aren't allowed to get sick--the world could just fall apart if she does. Hope things improve a bit.
Keep the reports coming!
. Thomas keeps asking "why doesn't Mickey or Donald ect, talk??" He would love to see Spiderman. Ialso heard Curius George is there and Kaylee loves the DR. Suess characters. Hopefully I can fit it in one of these trips.
And sometimes you just need a good cry....and a hug.
