Blissikins' Boo To You CBR Trip Oct. 2015! **Actual TR post AK** Aug. 2017

Loving your report. I'm going to Universal for the first time this year and I can't wait to see all the Potter stuff. I've done the London studio tour which was fantastic!
Welcome along! :) The HP stuff is breathtaking, it's completely immersive, especially Diagon Alley. The detail is incredible, even down to the packaging in the shops, just beautiful. I did the studio tour too and loved it, I want to go in winter though so that I can see the Christmas set-up! Universal is MUCH cheaper as far as merchandise is concerned!
 
AGAIN this dang thing will not let me post!!! WHY!!!

Did you say it was CHEAPER then Disney?!?!

Oh and i just LOVE LOVE all the pictures! I NEED TO GO HERE!
 
AGAIN this dang thing will not let me post!!! WHY!!!

Did you say it was CHEAPER then Disney?!?!

Oh and i just LOVE LOVE all the pictures! I NEED TO GO HERE!

:( What is this thing it has for not letting you post?! :( Sort it, DISboards!

We found it to be cheaper (than when we bought everything OOP at WDW) food/drink-wise, the refillable mugs at US saved us a fortune! There are drink stations all over the parks, and your mug has a chip in it like WDW resort mugs, but only valid for the day of purchase. I believe you can pay more for a longer stay, but as we didn't know which days we would be there we didn't bother and shared a refillable mug. I think they were about $9.99, so if you work it out in WDW drinks for a whole day for two people (and we hydrate a LOT, I'm a magnet for heatstroke), you save a fair bit there. Merchandise, some bits are cheaper than Disney, others not. The HP merchandise is certainly WAY cheaper than it is here in the UK, for example I paid £24.99 for a T-shirt at the HP Studio Tour in London, whereas at Universal the same one was $21.95. Wands too, they pretty much just swap the $ for a £ so we end up paying a lot more. That's why we spend like lunatics when we are in the States!! :rotfl2:That's true for most items though, we hit up Walgreens like crazy people at least once a trip (why pay £6 for an EOS lip balm when you can pay under $3?! Ibuprofen and cold and flu remedies are way cheaper/better too, so we stock up on those too). This is why we can't afford to go every year, haha!

Thank you! I could have stayed there all day with my camera getting all the little details, it's fabulous.

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Just a little life update...
This is an update of mixed emotions. You see, we will most probably have to postpone our hoped-for 2017 10th wedding anniversary trip/possible vow renewal. :earseek::earseek::earseek:

Why is that mixed emotions, you ask? Why is it not accompanied by the customary anguished wails and much rending of garments? Well…


We are moving house!! :jumping1: I will spare you all the drama, but I am not fond of our current place. Too small, not the nicest area, etc, etc. It was never bought as a "forever home", put it that way. My parents are down-sizing to a ground-floor flat, so we are buying their house (which is also my childhood home)! :bounce: We gain two rooms, two fenced-in gardens, a shower (I'm so excited to get a shower again, believe it or not we have managed for 9 years with just a bath and a rubber shower attachment), plus it's a much nicer area so all of our insurance premiums will get cheaper too!

We might still get to Disney next year, but at the moment plans are on hold until we finish the move, hopefully over the summer. Then again, we could always just tag a little extra onto the new mortgage for "renovations" ;) Or that was my idea anyway! Good job I keep a responsible adult around….:rotfl:
 
What is this thing it has for not letting you post?! :( Sort it, DISboards!

Got me. Today it's fine!

I think they were about $9.99,

That's not bad!

This is why we can't afford to go every year, haha!

I can totally understand this!!!

We are moving house!!

THIS IS THE BEST NEWS!

(which is also my childhood home)!

EVEN BETTER NEWS!!!! YAY FOR YOU!!! SO happy!

Then again, we could always just tag a little extra onto the new mortgage for "renovations"

I would... but i am not that responsible..
 


Wednesday: The One With the Clogger and a Very Special Train Pt III

When I left off, we were heading to a dark and shadowy place…No elephant graveyards here though. Just a few (singing!) shrunken heads, and a very weird CM. I don't know if there was a reason he'd been picked to work Knockturn Alley, but he fitted in perfectly, if you know what I mean. He suddenly approached John out of a dark corner (and it is horribly dark down there, as my crappy photos will testify!), started out in some kind of creepy character-ish spiel about wizard shopping and dark magic (which obviously, he didn't understand, not being a fan of the books), and then went on to talk about his T-shirt and ask him where he bought it, because he'd seen other people wearing it and wanted one, and was a big Street Fighter fan. OK then! I mean, it's a pretty cool shirt:

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But are you a wizard or not, sir? #Are you a maaaaaaaan…Or are you a Muggle? (are you a Muggle…)# Make up your mind! OK, so the song doesn't make much sense. But we left our new "friend" and headed deeper into

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Knockturn Alley!

It really is creepily dark, especially after all that glorious bright Florida sunshine!

Inside Borgin and Burkes
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Kinda wish I'd gone back and bought this shirt! One problem with the darkness though is that it continued into the shops! Not ideal when you're trying to see if you want to buy something!

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I'm sure I took a video in Diagon Alley too, but I can't seem to find it! I'll have to go back through the files and see if I can find the rest of my Universal videos.

Soon we'd had enough shade and set off for the station. Of course, we had to take another leisurely stroll through Diagon Alley on the way!

I even made a new friend!
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Looks like he got re-captured…
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and moved to Magical Menagerie!

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Flourish & Blotts

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Olivander's

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Madam Malkin's (with Hermione's Yule Ball dress in the upstairs window…They sell them in the gift shop!!!).

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Farewell my love!

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Off to Kings Cross!
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We joked that it's such an authentic replication that there's even a Tube strike going on outside!
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HEDWIG!!

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There she goes!

I don't want to give away too much about the train ride, I'm sure if you're desperate to find out someone will have put it on Youtube!! But they do have signs (and conductors!) everywhere asking you to preserve the magic and not film the journey, so we didn't. It was a wonderful experience though, we rode with a Chinese family with three little girls and Grandma in tow, who all loved it! It was nice to ride with someone who was as excited as I was about the train ride to Hogwarts! The girls had robes and wands, they were adorable!

Next time: Hogsmead and Hogwarts!
 
Do you believe you can get all the cool stuff done in US in one day?

We certainly could…Then again we don't really do many of the "in demand" rides (Rip, Ride, Rock-It, Hulk, etc) which have the really long queues.

On our first trip, we spent a day at Universal Studios (where Shrek, Minions, Men In Black, The Mummy, Diagon Alley (though that wasn't there then), streets of America, Blues Brothers and Beetlejuice shows, etc are), and a day at Universal Studios Islands Of Adventure next door (Hogsmeade, Hogwarts, Seuss Landing, Marvel Island, Toon Lagoon, Jurassic Park, the most wonderful Christmas shop, etc). We got there pretty early and left at closing time, and we fitted in everything that we wanted to do, however that didn't include the bigger rides which normally have equally big wait times!

There is a FP option at Universal but you have to pay extra for it. A one person, one day, one ride per attraction park-hopper Express Pass is $39.99. Also NONE of the Harry Potter rides were included on it, so Gringott's, Forbidden Journey, Hogwarts Express etc you still have to queue for. We didn't bother, and still got on everything that we wanted to ride.

If you just wanted the HP stuff and to fill in whatever else you had time for afterwards, you could definitely do that in a day but you would need a park-hopper ticket as it's now in both parks and you have to show your park hopper to ride the Hogwarts Express.

If we had to do it all in a day, I would start off at US in the morning, do Diagon Alley and Gringotts ride, Hogwarts Express over to US:IoA, Forbidden Journey, Hogsmeade, and then either stroll back through IoA (which is my favourite of the two parks), or take a quick tour of IoA and then walk back to US to do the Minions ride, Simpsons, etc. I think your kids would definitely like Toon Lagoon, and Marvel Island, probably the adventure-themed bit too, there's a stunt show which is fun, and the usual rapids, log flumes, etc. I think Seuss Landing is fun too, I guess it might be a little young for the kids? The rides probably are. But I like it just for the look of the place, it's really whimsical to walk through!
 


I love seeing all that HP stuff...I saw it a few years ago when it was just the one area...now there is so much more...must go back!! That shirt you wanted looked really awesome...maybe you can order it online!!! I just love all the detail of those areas.
 
I love seeing all that HP stuff...I saw it a few years ago when it was just the one area...now there is so much more...must go back!! That shirt you wanted looked really awesome...maybe you can order it online!!! I just love all the detail of those areas.
Oh you must go back! :) It's worth a trip for Diagon Alley alone!

I did debate ordering it, but if it's like Disney the shipping is stupidly expensive for single/small items ($60+, regardless of what you order, plus when it arrives in the UK there is an automatic £8 handling fee and 20% tax added…I don't mind that much shipping for a large order like my Christmas one, but for a T-shirt, a bit excessive!). I have a friend who has a place in Orlando (jealous!!), so I will ask them if they are going to Universal on their trip next month.
 
GAH! I have no idea what i am going to do!!!

I think really the only sensible, responsible thing to do is for you to take a girlie trip there, like an exploratory research mission, perhaps with a couple of Disney-loving girl friends, and check it out for yourself. Before you subject the family to it, you know. Take one for the team. ;) Then if it's suitable you can go back with the family in tow. :)

:car:
 
I think really the only sensible, responsible thing to do is for you to take a girlie trip there, like an exploratory research mission, perhaps with a couple of Disney-loving girl friends, and check it out for yourself. Before you subject the family to it, you know. Take one for the team. ;) Then if it's suitable you can go back with the family in tow. :)

:car:


I love the way you think
 
I hope everyone had a lovely Easter (or just a lovely long weekend,if you don't celebrate)!!

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(I can't believe how much he's grown already!!)

We were busy as usual, family lunch on Easter Sunday with John's family, home to see a friend of mine and then out to a hockey game in the evening. More work on my parents' house on Monday after a short shift at work. I SO enjoyed having almost 3 full days off work though! That almost never happens, I rarely get two days off together, let alone three!

Wednesday: The One With the Clogger and a Very Special Train Pt IV

When I left off we were just about to disembark the Hogwarts Express and head for Hogsmeade. I love the Harry Potter sections of the park so much. It really is completely immersive.

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Florida sun and…snow?! So weird!

We took a stroll through Hogsmeade but decided that we needed a drink before we did any more exploring. To The Three Broomsticks!!

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Makes me laugh every time. Shepherd's Pie with beef? Do wizard shepherds look after cows rather than sheep?!

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LOVE the inside of this place. It's detail like this that makes me sad that Springfield is really just one massive cafeteria seating area, when it could have been Moe's Tavern, Krusty Burger, etc.

There was only one drink option for me…
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FROZEN BUTTERBEER!! It gets no better than this. Yum! John finds it way too sweet and sickly, but I love the taste.

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John had a frozen lemonade instead. Muggle.

LIFE HACK: Take a sip of Butterbeer AND Frozen Lemonade at the SAME TIME. Tastes like the most delicious lemon meringue pie. When Universal market that in some wizardy split goblet with a double straw, I want 50% of the profits for putting my tooth enamel on the line making the discovery and carrying out extensive testing.

Where's the best place to go when you are full to the brim with super-sweet sugary fluids?

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Why, on a Forbidden Journey of course!! Nothing helps the Butterbeer go down like being thrown around at speed in the dark.

We did take a slow stroll through Hogsmeade to give ourselves a little time to digest, but the shops were SO busy! Is wizard Christmas at a different time to ours? Was everyone getting their robes ready for Halloween? Or did everyone else do what we did and make a beeline for Hogsmeade to avoid the scary clowns at HHN? Whatever the reason, it was NOT a pleasant place to shop, so we gave up and headed straight to school.

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As we got closer to the gates, I figured the sign must be broken. a 10min wait time? But the place was packed!! We had nothing else planned and it's a nice queuing area through the school, so we thought we'd give it a try, despite John's misgivings that they had probably just forgotten to add one of the "0"s on at the end!

We left our baggage in a locker and headed for the queue…which wasn't there! We walked straight through! In fact there was so little of a queue that when I stopped to admire the scenery we barely had to wave anyone past in front of us. We didn't hit a proper queue of people until we were in the corridor right before you board the ride vehicles. We were there maybe 5mins. Awesome!! Forbidden Journey is a mix of coaster track, screens (Soarin' style, where you are practically in the screen), and animatronics. It's not my favourite ride, but it's definitely top 10! Of course when we touched back down again we had to peruse the wares in the gift shop. I have an annoying holiday shopping style of looking at things for the first 7-10 days, and then spending the rest of the trip flying around trying to find the things I wanted to buy. John eventually dragged me out of the gift shop, and we decided it was time for a nice slow wander back to the front of the park…

In all the excitement of tidying and packing to move I have LOST my trip journal! Wouldn't you just know it! The first time I take a journal and actually make notes, and now I can't find it! Ugh! I'm so cross! I shall try and find it before my next update. Otherwise it might be quite a short update!!
 
Oh No! you lost your notes!!! I hope your pictures jog your mind a wee bit!!!

I am going to get over to U.S. one of these years!!! Everyone's reports are just AMAZING!!! I cannot wait to ride everything and take it all in!!! I WANT BUTTERBEER!!!
 
Wednesday: The One With the Clogger and a Very Special Train Pt V

When you leave Hogwarts you are straight into that dark, leafy, shadowy place full of scary beasts…The Forbidden Forest!

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Meh…Close enough. Still full of scary beasts (and that's just the tour groups!).

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ESCAPE!! Not quite. I was so sad to have missed this particular meet-and-greet at the raptor petting zoo. For those of you who haven't seen it, this is what it's like (not my video, obviously, because we missed it!!).


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I'm excited to see what they do with the King Kong ride…The press releases so far make it look very exciting!

From Jurassic Park, you head to Toon Lagoon! I love Toon Lagoon, just for the fun look of the place!

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MARMADUKE!!:rotfl2:

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Ripsaw Falls



Into Marvel Island...one of John's favourites. I love the shops there, even though I could never get half of the stuff home on the plane! It's like comic-con!

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Well I work in a music shop, I had to take a photo of the Avengers guitar, of course!

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I'm not sure why there aren't more photos of Seuss Landing, that's one of my favourite parts of the park. I'm guessing my battery was on its last legs! I did manage to save some juice for the Christmas shop though. I LOVE Christmas decorations!

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And WHY, pray tell, is this not available in my size, Universal Studios?!

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I really wish I had gone back and bought this actually. It's a Wonderful Life is one of John's favourite Christmas films. Next time! Disney and Universal should do a cheaper option on their cushions for foreign visitors…Pay less and just get the cushion cover, not the pad inside. I could have bought so many of the Disney ones, but they would never have fitted in the case, whereas the covers I could have just folded up with my clothes.

By the time we got to City Walk I was starting to get tired. I had to stop for a quick photo of Margaritaville though!

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Whenever I see that I get the song stuck in my head!

Once we survived the trek back to the car (and oh my goodness, is it a trek at the end of the day when your feet are sore! Even to the VIP parking!) we decided to stock up on essentials for the next day's road trip. To Walmart!! It was today that John decided to buy us a 36 pack of bottled water. To drag all the way back to the room. From the car…which is parked a considerable distance away from the room. Uh-huh. Have I mentioned he doesn't drink water? He does not drink water (don't ask, I've tried. How he isn't permanently dehydrated is beyond me). We also got Mountain Dew, Arizona tea, cookies, crisps, sweets, and all the other healthy essentials, aka "Stuff you can't buy in England". Well that's not technically true, you can get it, but it's stupidly expensive. For example those giant cans of Arizona iced tea, that have "99c" printed right there on the can? £3.99-4.50 ($5.60-6.35) each back home. Up to £3 for a 330ml can of Mountain Dew. When we drink it, we drink it out of champagne glasses.

I got a Subway and John got some other snacks for dinner, I got told off by the Subway guy for saying "Gherkins" instead of "Pickles", and we were on our way back to our home-away-from-home to eat, shower and sleep.

Up Next: Meteor Showers and Lightning!!

 
Oh No! you lost your notes!!! I hope your pictures jog your mind a wee bit!!!

I am going to get over to U.S. one of these years!!! Everyone's reports are just AMAZING!!! I cannot wait to ride everything and take it all in!!! I WANT BUTTERBEER!!!

Fortunately between the two of us we have a pretty good memory! Still no sign of the notebook though! :( I'm sure it'll turn up when we eventually unpack!

There's another day of Universal to come to tempt you yet! :)
 
how dare you not say Pickles...

I love this report!!!

IF i can save up enough for next year we are defiantly going to U.S. We were going to go.. BUT the car took all my MONEY!

We must get here!!!


I still think Disney is fighting to get Marvel back.. They own it now.. I am kinda hoping they do. It would be nice to have a TS with Marvel characters?!?!
 
how dare you not say Pickles...
I know…I will insist ordering my sandwiches in a foreign language! That guy was so funny, and John was teasing me about having a guy in every Subway, because there is a guy at the Subway near where we live who I have the longest chats with when I am ordering sandwiches as we like the same films, etc.

I love this report!!!
Thank you!!! I love yours too.

IF i can save up enough for next year we are defiantly going to U.S. We were going to go.. BUT the car took all my MONEY!

We must get here!!!
How do cars know just when to go wrong?! Typical!


I still think Disney is fighting to get Marvel back.. They own it now.. I am kinda hoping they do. It would be nice to have a TS with Marvel characters?!?!
I would LOVE TS with Marvel characters!! I'm sure there's still a M&G with Cap at US, I know you can still meet Spiderman, Dr Doom, etc near their rides. Where the Wolverine M&G spot is (helloooo Hugh-Jackman-alike…hopefully!) I never have found. I'd even take the yellow lycra outfit over the vest-jeans-leather-jacket combo to be honest. :( I'm guessing they couldn't find anyone suitable to fill the role yet. I don't know if Disney would devote the space to creating something on such a grand scale as Marvel Island, it does have that cartoon city vibe, and the characters on all the buildings look wonderful. If they could do something for Marvel like they are doing for Avatar, that would surpass Marvel Island I think. It would go really well at DHS as well!
 

Thursday: The One With Meteors and Lightning Pt.I

Thursday was one of the days that I was most excited about on our trip. We were going to TAMPA! Yes, that’s right, no parks for us today but I was still so excited. Again, if you’re only here for pure unadulterated Disney, you might get bored with today’s updates (but I hope not)!


We were going to my first NHL game!! I have admit, I’m not particularly a Lightning fan...But it was the closest option, and with it being the season opener, we decided to go for the first game available on our trip. At home we watch EIHL British ice hockey, but it’s nowhere near the standard of NHL hockey, though some ex-NHLers do come over and during the last lock-out Tom Sestito signed for us for a while. Still, it’s not the same as seeing an NHL game!


It was another beautiful morning (of course!) even though we had a late start and reservations at 12:30pm, we were too hungry to wait until lunch! We went to Center Town for a quick breakfast. I had the French Toast with bacon and some apple juice, and John had a chocolate muffin and hot chocolate. Whilst he finished his drink, I went outside to phone my Nana and Grandpa. Last trip we were on a different phone package and were able to phone home every other day which was nice. This time we called parents and grandparents once a week each. They were surprised at how early it was in Florida, we just ate breakfast and they had finished lunch. We talked for a few minutes whilst I wandered around taking photographs. It really was such a beautiful day!


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[SPOILER ALERT] This was as close as we ever got to the pool. Still never been swimming in Florida. I just never seem to have the time!!

Even though we had big evening plans in Tampa, we couldn’t go a whole day without a little bit of Disney, and we had a very important reservation. We left the car parked at Center Town and took the bus to Disney Springs. I had tried to book T-Rex for our first night and couldn’t get a reservation before 9:30pm. I was really disappointed as I had tried to go to T-Rex the first night of our last trip (before I knew that you needed reservations for such things) and we hadn’t been able to go that night, now we weren’t going to get to eat there on the first night of this trip either, unless we waited until 9:30pm! I made the reservation anyway, if it was the best I could get, I’d take it. Well fortunately I decided to cancel that one and book at Planet Hollywood for our arrival day, because otherwise I would have had to waste our T-Rex reservation when I was so ill! I guess it just goes to show that sometimes you just have to believe that if you are meant to be somewhere, you will be there, even if it goes against the plans you have...someone/something out there obviously has a better one for you!


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We did have some MM shots from this bridge too...but they are AWFUL! The guy could have got great shots of us looking out over the water, or looking at each other, but he insisted on posing us face-on with the sun RIGHT in our faces! We’re squinting and my eyes are watering, and the PP guy is saying “Lovely! You guys look so happy! Great shots!” Um...no. We look in pain. So you can see the views without our scrunched-up squinty faces ruining them!


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We were over an hour early for our reservation, so we spent the morning browsing, and checking out all the new places that had sprung up since we were last there! I don’t think there’s a single shop at Disney Springs that I can’t waste time in if necessary. This was the first of the “I forgot to go to Basin!” days. There were many of those days. In fact, I sat down on the plane on the way home and realised that, yes, I forgot to go to Basin (White). Oh well. I still hold out hope that one day we will get to share a home with Basin White for a few days at least!

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Kissy kissy Miss Piggy! :) My favourite Muppet couple, before Denise the sty-wrecker got in on the action. I know it got some bad reviews from parents expecting it to be like Sesame St, but I really enjoy the new Muppets series!


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We checked in at T-Rex and had about a 20min wait for our table. The dinos were BUSY that day!


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The woman who checked in before us was in a party of 10. The hostess said that at least one person had to wait inside, so that they could be called. This woman didn’t want to wait inside. “But my kids are playing over there! My husband is sat on that bench right [in the opposite direction] over there smoking his cigarette before we eat! My family are looking at the water! (??) I don’t want to go inside...It’s too nice out to be inside! I love being in the sun!” I guess maybe she was from Alaska or something? The sun was a huge novelty, apparently. As was the water. Well, we want to eat lady, and frankly the sun was getting on my lightly-broiled nerves, so stop holding up the check-in line so we can go inside. The sweet breathy whisper of the air-con was calling my name! After much huffing and puffing, she decided that she knew better and she would wait outside because she would hear them calling her name. Well, you know how that ended already. No sooner had we joined the lovely cool air-conditioned line than the dino-wrangler came out “Party of 10 explorers? Do I have a party of 10 in the name of [Mrs Knows-Better]? Table for [Mrs Knows-Better]’s family of 10 explorers!” Turns out she couldn’t hear them outside. DW called for them a few more times, then went back to get the details for the next family. As we were following our waitress in 20mins later, we heard her giving the inside host a mouthful because they had been waiting nearly 25mins and no-one had bothered to call them, they’d been right outside so they would have heard anyone calling their name, etc... I’m sorry, I’m the kind of person that finds that kind of thing funny. Not for the poor host, obviously. But I think it’s the 15+yrs of retail, it warms my little heart to see customer karma in action.


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Last time we ate at T-Rex we were seated in the bar, which was beautiful. I loved the ice bar and its changing colours, the huge fish tanks, and the “fossils” in the adjacent tabletops. We also didn’t realise that we were allowed to wander around the other areas of the restaurant, so we hadn’t seen any of the other dining areas! I was really excited when the CM lead us through the bar, towards the ice cave! I was actually surprised that it wasn’t colder in there than the rest of the restaurant. Sometimes I get a bit too involved in the magic! I thought maybe we would be in there, I hoped we would be as it’s so beautiful, with the ice, and the colours, I loved it, but we went right through the cave to the seating area behind. It was so dark, but we were nice and close to the ice cave (I just love how the colours change!). The ceiling in there is all huge plants and flowers, it really does make you feel like a tiny little human in a big dino world! Our server was very friendly, she was joking with John that they still had photos up in the kitchen of him hiding under the table during his first meteor shower on our last trip!


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Hey neighbour!


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Apparently we were in the “Sequoia Room”. Who knew?!


I had a Very-Cherry Limeade, John had the Strawberry-Asaurus Lemonade (of course, we had to get the flashing souvenir glasses!

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Which, of course, are still unused in our kitchen...Why do we pay extra for these things?! I’m sure my nephew will love using one when he visits I guess), and we perused the menu. This was purely for John’s benefit, not mine. I always know what I’m having at T-Rex. There is only one option. If you have been reading along, you also already know what I’m having…


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The Pork-Asaurus Sandwich!!


That thing is so good, I love it. John had the Bronto Burger, I think. I can’t remember. I was too busy with my delicious Pork-Asaurus. It was a lot bigger than I remember from last time, either that or they were feeling more generous today! I had to eat some of the meat out of it first, it was so stuffed it would never have fit in my mouth otherwise! As usual we had also picked our desserts and, as usual, by the time we’d finished our entrees we had no room for anything else! I don’t know why I was surprised, as we do that pretty regularly at home too where the portions are decidedly smaller. Our server kindly washed out our sticky glasses for us and put them in a bag, and after we paid the bill we wandered around for a while, looking at the dinos and taking photographs before a steady walk back to the bus stop to head back to CBR and collect the car.


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We were so lucky with the buses 99% of the time we had less than a 10min wait, and this case was no exception. In no time we were piling into the car, Sat-Nav ready to go, and on our way to TAMPA!!
 

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