Florida trip

I rarely remember things, and I am very good at forgetting things. So I decided to scribble down the rest of the memories that is still intact inside my head since I came back from the Florida trip. I was very hesitant when my BIL and sis first proposed the idea. They pushed me and made me to agree for the trip. I am thankful to them for pushing me, otherwise I would have a missed a life time opportunity.

 

We spent a total of four days. Normally it seems people plan for more than a week at this place. It was because of my official constraint we had to plan for just 4days. The first and last day we enjoyed Universal studios’ Islands of Adventure.

 

The minute we entered the parking lot, I was astounded by the way how organized things were. The parking lot easily accommodate more than 10k cars. And the place where the parking lot entry fee was collected was never jammed. There was no more than 5min wait, yet 100s of cars were inching towards the parking lot. We had to walk for 15mins from the parking lot before we can actually step inside the park.

WOW!!! was the first word that echoed loud inside my head. From a distance all I could see was the place was swarmed by heads, heads of various color style, and yet I never felt congested. The entry point where the park entry tickets were validated had a huge tower(the above pic). From then on the adventure began

The entire island was divided into various themes based on Universal's movie production. We covered Harry Potter, Lost continent, Seuss Landing and Marvel Super hero Island. Our first thing was to complete the Harry potter thing, since that is the newly added attraction about which the kids were excited.

The entire place was constructed with the harry potter theme. The castle, Hogwarts express and the staff at this area were typically dressed like the people in the Harry potter movie.

           

The buildings were very much as described in the book and portrayed in the movie, and I was happy to capture one such picture with sun playing a good part behind the castle tower.

    

We took off with a roller coaster ride Dragon Challenge, based on the Harry Potter story. It was an amazing thrilling ride, where you are pushed to your limits, it loops nearly twice at high speed and it makes you energized. The ride was awesome. The next thing we checked was forbidden Journey. The ride was themed to be inside the Hogwarts castle.

           

It was a great experience than just a ride. The ride transforms you into a Moghul riding behind Harry. You get to see dragons, spiders, dementors with some great graphics in-between. We did this ride 3 times and it was fun and exciting all the three times.

 

Just after we finished this, another medium level roller coaster welcomed us. it was called Flight of Hippogriff. This had no great turn or twists when compared to the previous two, but it was refreshing and energizing.

From Harry’s land, we moved to lost continent. There was not anything thrilling as the previous land, but it had a very good Broadway kind of a show – Sindbad's eighth voyage. It was a live performance  and it was awesome. We then did another small show kind of thing, Poseidon’s fury which involved real fire/water/air effects with a 3D animation. It was a good experience. From there we moved to Seuss landing. The place was more of the sweet little kids, everything gentle and yet involved fun. We happened to catch a Broadway show at this place, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and it was really awesome.

                         

I always saw the merry go-round from a distance. This time, even though my sis told it was for kids, I just went on the ride just for fun. It was good.

The final day, we were tired and did very little but some of the important stuff. We went on a ride HULK. True to its name, it was incredible.

The incredible Hulk

 

 

The wait time was 120mins for the ride, we waited and it was worth all the wait. From the same island, we did Doctor Doom’s Fearfall. It was a shoot out straight towards the sky for 15 Technorati Tags: 0 feet and then u fall down in the force of gravity. The view at that height was breath taking. I really loved it.

Overall it was one lifetime experience and unforgettable memories……That is all from the Island’s front. More to come from Disney