We had grand plans of getting into the Islands of Adventure park early today but since yesterday was such a long travel day we decided to sleep in and get some rest instead.
We left our room around 10 or so and took the water taxi over to the main part of the park.
It was 80 degrees at 10 am this morning. We started in Islands of Adventure and decided we would just walk around, check out the park and take pictures. Tomorrow we are going to go back and ride some of the water rides. We’ll leave our cameras so we don’t have to worry about them getting wet.
According to my pedometer we walked about 7 miles in what turned out to be 90 degrees and very humid. We worked our way around to the new Harry Potter section. They did a great job making it look like the movies. The first ride we did was Harry Potter and The Forbidden Journey. It’s a 3D ride set in the Hogwarts Castle and holy cow does it ever move. You really feel like you are flying and right there in the middle of everything. You fly past a dragon and can actually feel the heat from the fire it breaths at you. It was a very cool ride that I think we’ll do again. 🙂
We rode the Hogwarts Express from Islands of Adventure over to Universal Studios. Once in Universal Studios they have created Diagon Alley and what a job they did. The even put in Nocturn Alley and it was nice and dark.
Hogwarts Express
Diagon Alley
Nocturn Alley
We walked a lot of miles today and our feet and legs are sore. Tomorrow we go back and do the Jurassic Park ride, the Dudley Do Right log ride and the Escape from Gringotts ride. I think after that we are going to go back and do the Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey ride.