Friday 28 December 2012

Orlando: Day 7

This was one of the days I was looking forward to the most as we were going to Universal Studios : Islands of Adventure, where the highly acclaimed Wizarding World of Harry Potter was. It also seemed more exciting than Universal Studios Florida, its sister theme park, at least to me :P
The weather always looks so depressing in the morning

The entrance, with the words 'The Adventure Begins'
Of course, the moment we went in we made a beeline for the WW of Harry Potter ( WWHP for short) as it was obviously the most popular and would eventually have the most crowds, even though it was practically on the other side of the park.
The entrance.. looks so real doesn't it? 


Honeydukes!! One of the best places in hogsmeade <3

They were 'selling' Hermione's yule ball dress!!

The houses are covered with fake 'snow'

Le grande castle!!!!
We immediately queued up for the main ride in WWHP, The Forbidden Journey. The walk through the castle itself was amazing, with the most fantastic details.

House system! It was really dark so I had no choice but to use flash --> pics look more horrible than usual :P


Mom and I outside the headmaster's room ;)

The sorting hat!
There were many other rooms throughout our mini 'tour' of the castle but I was too amazed to take pictures ( plus I would hold up the queue if I stopped to do so) The ride was awesome!! Satisfying for any potter fan with enough thrills :)

Wands that they were selling outside!


More pics of the castle when the sky got clearer


How I wish this sign was real :')

Butterbeer!!! :) One of the things we wanted to try coming here.

Bro and I posing by the cart

We got this too!! Didn't taste as pumpkin-ish as I would've liked due to the fact that it isn't pure pumpkin juice ( it has apple juice concentrate). In fact it tasted rather weird :P But the bottle is cute!

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Guy making the butterbeer

AT LAST! *goggly eyes*
How does butterbeer taste like? Well..like a cream soda with caramel cream on top. Really good :)

Another butterbeer cart
They were selling the monster book in one of the stores!!

CLASSIFIED: Highly dangerous

When you can't buy em' robes, take a pic with them :P Griffindor for the win!!

My brother on the other hand, fancies Slytherin

Went back to honeydukes and bought the Bertie Bott's every favour beans, which i had long fancied.

Chocolate frog!!

HUGE BOX

these are the flavours! Tried the rotten egg one and instantly regretted it. 'They aren't kidding when they say every flavour'

Found this in the connecting joke shop hahaha

Hogwart's Express!

Nice picture spot :)

Watched this show! Awesome stunts and very exciting :)

This is Poseidon's city! Unfortunately the show was closed ): Still looks nice nonetheless.

Then we hopped on over to Dr Seuss's area! This was super colourful and whimsical, and really made you feel like you were in the middle of one of Dr Seuss's crazy books! :P

We managed to take a picture with the Grinch! Who is really mean haha.

Some other cute Seuss's characters!

Even the Cat in the Hat himself! :D

And our aunt got us popcorn in a souvenir bucket, which means it's refillable for 89 cents! :)


We had lunch at the discovery centre in Jurassic Park.

And we sat this ride called 'Dudley's Ripsaw falls' where we got absolutely SOAKED. And we went twice cos the first time my dad stayed to look after our stuff so we accompanied him the 2nd time round since the queue was super short anyway. It was super fun!!! Other than the getting wet part.. We spent the entire ride anticipating the STEEP drop at the end and the effects in the ride didn't help our nervousness either, which added greatly to the fun/fear factor :)

One of the shops! Look at that mega-ass sandwich :P
This area is sort of the 'comic book' area, where everything looks right out of a comic book! Awesome realistic architecture as well :)

Oh Popeye!! We sat his ride and got even more soaked...( we also went twice for this one) When I'm soaked I don't like to take pics so no pics for this one! :P

All that playing has made us very hungry....

This was the last stop for us as none of us felt like doing much after getting soaked to the bone in the cold, so we decided to come back on the last day in Orlando instead and finish playing this theme park!











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