I love seeing the HP stuff, it looks so real.
I do think that the HP books are better suited for older kids say around 10 or maybe 9. Each book gets darker & scarier as Harry ages, the first chapter of the last book in the series almost put me off finishing it! The vision of that was almost too much for me. I did finally read it & I thoroughly loved those books.
You are right. I think they were written for preteens, but as the series goes on, they seem to age with the kids who started reading them at a preteen age.
Just found your report and am enjoying it! couple questions if you don't mind...I was there opening day at WWohP and perhaps this is why I remember very little - sheer madness!
Last time I did not ride FJ but DH and DD did. I went thru the que with them and then went to child swap area. Am I given a ticket or the ability to ride if I do choose? I have a bad hip/low back and always wait for the verdict from DH on a ride. He claims I could handle it, DD says no! So if I go to the child swap area can I then ride the ride if the verdict comes back to go for it?
Also, assuming I opt NOT to chance FJ, go to the child swap area and wait - can I have our backpack wtih us since I will not be riding or must I check this at the locker?
I bet it was madness!
I'm not sure what kind of hip and back problems you have, but Skip has had the same hip replaced twice, once in Oct of 2009 and then again in Dec of 2010. He rode it with no problems. I have back problems too. I'm basically sore all the time. I didn't have any more problems with this ride than others.
I think you would have no problem going into the childswap line, as long as you have a child to hang with you. If not, then I'm not sure they will let you. But I am sure you can take the backpack in that line and swap it when you do ride.
Do you ride space Mountain, or rockin rollarcoaster? If you can do those, you can surely do FJ. Those are much harder on my back.
We would shout it across the pool deck.
Luckily the kid had a sense of humor and we were teens so it was hilarious. It would be Hey NUSS P. NUSS
That is so funny. Though if I was Mr. P. Nuss, I would ask to have my shirt redone.
Again, please forgive my HP ignorance.... but what is butter beer and what does it taste like?
The rides, are they like scene from the movies?
It's like a butterscotch cream soda type of a drink. You can have it frozen, which is like a slush or cold. It has a lot of foam on the top too. I liked the foam. It's very sweet though. I tried a cold one the next day and it was much better to me. Less sweet.
They sell it at several carts or in the Hogs head, but at the hogs head the line is not bad at all if any. AND you get 10% off with AAA. Most of the cart type places don't offer that discount.
Butter Beer tastes like a buttscotch Cream soda. It can be served frozen or just cold, either way, it's amazing and worth the $$ but a lot of calories, especially with the cream topping!
The rides and que are just like to movie! It's amazing!!
No, no calories at all. There are no calories while on vacation....you didn't know that?
Thats great your going to have your pictures published!
I'm loving all the Harry Potter pictures. We didn't do the wand shop because of the line so I'm glad I got to see your pictures of the inside. That was a long wait.
I didn't know about the triple AAA discount on he butterbeer. We didn't get the frozen one we got the regular one with whip cream. We shared one and it was very sweet. River loved it when we got one the first day. He kept saying he wanted another one. We got another one on our 2nd day there and it was SO HOT that day that the heat and the sweetness really got to him and he felt so sick he actually laid down on the hot pavement! I was afraid he was going to have a heat stroke!
I think Forbidden Journey has the best queue ever! I loved it and we had a 45min. wait. But it was ok because we kept moving.
I liked the regular one much better. I had read about AAA on a couple of TR's and then Barb told me it again. She told me show it everywhere, the worst they could say was no. I think we only forgot to show it once when we ate, and that was because Skip paid when I was in the bathroom.....I should've lef the card with him, but I wasn't thinking. It always feels good to get a little discount.....even if it isn't much.
The FJ queue is really cool. I was amazed how fast you keep moving for the most part. They did a really good job with it.
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Good to know!
