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[Keladry84]

I know you're from KS but so am I and I love it out here #sorrynotsorry

Technically I'm from Nebraska There's days I love it too, but I actually wish it was more to come back and visit rather than live. My ideal place to live would be Berlin Germany . Nice to see another Kansan!

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Technically I'm from Nebraska There's days I love it too, but I actually wish it was more to come back and visit rather than live. My ideal place to live would be Berlin Germany . Nice to see another Kansan!

I know off topic but the weekend before last I wanted to do something different for my birthday so I had us do a mini day trip to the Flint Hills (hadn't been there in a hot minute) taking the scenic byway and stopping off along the way. There's something about walking in the prairie with cattle and bison (though they were too far back in the pens for us to see as it was a much longer walk than we wanted) and beautiful colors of the prairie exploring a nearly 150yr old one room schoolhouse to bring some fresh air. I live in the suburbs and while we have some farms here and there still along the road nothing like going out seeing the prairie land, I find it so peaceful. That said with all the international travel we've been doing lately there are many different places that have such amazing beauty that's for sure even if KS is my home there are many places to visit and explore!

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Back to Universal, our now TM friend checked out a bit of Helios after his training and said it was a beautiful hotel and great views of the park. I can't quite tell if this photos below is of the sun being blocked by Helios or just the clouds, it's probably just the clouds



I know I've seen photos of the fountains and watched a snippet of some nighttime stuff but the fountain looks quite large from this point of view, I'm loving it (and it's making me miss Bellagio fountains *sigh* )

 

[jrsharp21]

Today was our EU preview day. Got to Sapphire Falls around 8:15am. No one checking in at all. Checked in and they had a room ready for us. The guy at the front desk ask if we were driving or taking the bus. He suggested to drive as the bus takes too long right now. So we unloaded the car and drove over. When we got to EU it was not really raining, but by the time we got through the gate and made our way into Super Nintendo World, it was pouring. Went to Donky Kong, and it was delayed. So we started walking back and jumped on Yoshi. Bad move, it started raining harder and we got absolutely soaked. Next we stood in line for Mario Kart to just get out of the rain. 70 minute later and we finally got on. That’s how we started our day.

To keep it brief, it rained a good part of the morning and early afternoon. Many of the rides were not operating. At one point there was only two rides going, Mario Kart and Frankenstein. Battle at the Ministry was already scheduled to be closed, but Werewolf also ended up being closed all day. The park was pretty much empty all day because of the rain. This allowed us to explore and walk around freely. When the rain stopped and rides came back up, we kep being in the right spot at right time and pretty much walked on them. I will say that Stardust Racers may be one of my favorite coasters ever. That was awesome.

We ended up leaving at 4:30pm and rode everything that was open in the park. We will definitely be back in January to try to get on Battle at the Ministry.