that you were whisked onto Hagrids!
This is an amazing photo….. I hope you have this hanging up in your home. Even the guy in front is smiling at you
Brenda
Most are so loud, nearly screaming, drawing attention to themselves. Often you can’t remove yourself from the general area, nothing I want to experience as I find it stressful.
What really gets me is when they have kids in tow, standing there mutely while (usually mommie dearest) is trying to create enough attention to wear down the TM (or CM). Sometimes the kids look visibly distressed, other times seem to be enjoying it. Reminds me of the nature programs where the kids are being taught to hunt
I get it, emotions can flare out of control when people have spent so much $, they are hot, tired & things just aren’t going their way. However, I also think more guests should be trespassed for verbally abusing staff…at the very least, given a time out to cool down.
I love reading your report! I finally got caught up!
I can’t tell you how much Andi and I love Strong Waters it is a favorite now for us!!
We had the best meal and drinks there in early February!
We took the convention path that you talk about in your reports. I was telling Andi how you say it reminds you of the hotel in the Shining
We got a little turned around but soon we were in Sapphire!
How amazing to get a front of the line pass on Hagrid’s ride. I really enjoy this ride even for a ride chicken haha
It is always sad on the last day and no matter how long you stay it comes before you know it!
I love all the pictures!
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Velocicoaster is beyond my coastering capabilities, but I do love seeing everyone having such a great time.
It is turning into a very special last day!!
Things like this are what make visits so special! We never go expecting anything, but I can tell you I never forget when a TM goes out of their way to make my day amazing.
, and a cruise all on the horizon.
Things like this are what make visits so special! We never go expecting anything, but I can tell you I never forget when a TM goes out of their way to make my day amazing.
Thank you for sharing your amazing trip report! I have loved living vicariously through it and reminiscing about our trip since some of the dates overlapped.
When is your next trip? Not sure if you've shared and I have missed it. We won't be doing UO this year, but we have other plans - Disney next month, a summer camping/theme park trip - not in Florida
We are going to Cedar Point in Ohio... It's part of Cedar Fair. They have several parks all over the country. I have been to others, but this will be my and my boys first time there. My husband hasn't been since he was a teenager. The campground is so close you can actually see the rollercoasters!
If the campground is one I’m thinking of across the bay, there a little lighthouse you used to be able to climb the windinding staircase
Indeed but, puzzling it’s been wasted space/dormant for so long.
Almost as tho it’s just waiting for a new storyline wink wink, I wish
Oh, feel free to stretchhhhhh it outMore to come......not long to go now I promise!!!!
"It's hard to muck up chicken tenders". I LMAO on this oneWe were still on quite a high from getting on Hagrid`s as we left Hogsmeade, but we weren`t quite ready to leave the park yet, so we ambled round behind The Mystic Fountain where the infamous Sindbad show used to be held.
The area behind it hosts the line for Hagrid`s at peak times and they have blocked off one of the ways in to see what is behind the fountain, and this at one point was the main entrance to Sindbad show which closed a few years ago now in 2018.
It is like a secret world back there, highly themed and usually very quite on any given day, except for the biggest bugbear for us in the parks, there is a smoking area which if there are folks smoking, it`s not so nice to wander. Yes, I admit to being incredibly anti smoking and would ban it from all public places, never going to happen of course, but we avoid smokers wherever possible if we can.
Today we are the only ones around here, there is also a little doggy area which we have never seen used anytime we`re back here, but usually it`s incredibly peaceful.
This is another building I think would make a fabulous little hotel to have a special suite of room you can`t buy, but are offered randomly, a little like the Castle Suite in MK.
It`s another area that has so many details in the buildings and facades, you really could be transported to another world and time, exactly what the Sindbad show encompassed. We did like that show but a little like Poseidon, we didn`t watch it often enough.
The picture below was from 2021 when you could walk in the former entrance that was wide open. It was very odd seeing the former theatre not quite stripped of everything yet, but definitely a shadow of it`s former glory.
Love this walkway below, it must be the nicest walkway to any bathrooms I have ever seen!
I did pop in to splash some cold water on my face, it was boiling hot now and the humidity was through the roof so a few seconds in the cool would be welcome, these bathrooms back here are never usually too busy either at certain times, today it was deserted apart from the usual cleaning lady.
I must say, I`ve never came across a dirty bathroom in all our visits to Universal, they are always immaculate and well kept, not something I can say in this country as so many are not in the best condition.
We bought a bottle of water and wandered around Fire Eaters Grill which is a very nice counter service, but no indoor seating which is one of the reasons we never eat there, our last time eating there was the Orlando Informer event and we did enjoy it even though it`s hard to muck up chicken tenders!
Again, as an outdoor eating area it is incredibly themed and colourful, it is very pretty but usually it`s just too hot for us to eat during the day outside, we are definitely fans of aircon while we eat.
More to come......not long to go now I promise!!!!
"It's hard to muck up chicken tenders". I LMAO on this one
I love watching the Great British Bake Off, and one time Paul said that they had to make brownies. He said it is a basic recipe and if you mess that up you are in trouble"
Well, I thought I would make brownies from scratch. Afterall, I used to make them all the time when the kids were little. I think I said , "Any idiot can make brownies". No Problem! Well, they turned out very wet in the middle but ok on the sides. Fine, I thought. I'll just put it back in the oven for a while. I took it out in 10 minutes and the same thing. It was gross! So, I kept putting it back in the oven to bake more. I ended up baking the darn thing over 1 1/2 hours!!! past the baking time and it still was not done in the middle! We gave them to my teenage grandson who will eat anything, and he tried to bake them for a while again! I don't know what happened.
Roger and I get a big laugh out of this. I learned never to say "Brownies are so easy anybody can make them".
Famous last words.
As long as any potential overlay would amount to more than putting lipstick on aYou never know, you might just get your wish.......
, I’m all in
Okay You are ON! It's the great chicken tender cookoff !! I;ll do the chicken tenders if YOU do the brownies. After all anyone can make brownies
That is so funny!!!! lol......yes, don`t you hate when folks say you can`t go wrong with a dish....and you go very wrong with it!!! 1 1/2 hours?????
I wonder where you went wrong!
I think my worst kitchen experience was once I was baking a ginger cake and it kept rising....and rising.....and rising.....I had to keep slicing whole sections off the top or it would be against the top of the Aga.....lol......in the end, it went in the trash, it was not going to be saved!
I admit I`m not the best baker, my cakes are never light and fluffy the way one of my best friends cakes are, she has the magic touch, mine are just average I think. But my flourless chocolate cake, ooey gooey chocolate cookies and butter shortbread are unbeatable.....even if I say so myself......lol......
And yes, a 5 year old can cook chicken tenders and do it properly, no excuses from any food outlet getting them wrong, kids food should still be decent
. FYI the brownies were from a Box!!! All I had to do was put the eggs, water, and oil in and bake. And yes, I did bake another 1 1/2 hours, and Gary (grandson) baked them again!!! He finally took a spoon and ate them. Nothing stops a teenage boy from eating! I try to tell myself that Betty Crocker screwed up the box of Brownies, and I'm going with that
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Realize Epic project costs are first and foremost, they still need some sort of sit down entertainment show. Long as it’s not in the realm of F&F or Fallon
Okay You are ON! It's the great chicken tender cookoff !! I;ll do the chicken tenders if YOU do the brownies. After all anyone can make brownies
Oh and I completely agree, it must have been a dodgy box, had to be 
