It was another sunny day today so we went to Islands of Adventure!
Andrew, Christie and I then walked over to 'Doctor Doom' which is one of those long columns that shoots you up and then drops you. It was good, but not as exciting as we hoped! At least the queue was only 20 minutes.
Somebody then came up with the fun idea to go on the river rapids. You know, because the people walking around were obviously soaked because of the log flume - not the rapids. Obviously! Needless to say, we got water pouring in from the sides, buckets dumped on our heads and waterfalls cascading onto us. My leggings turned into liquid cotton, and it was a blessing that my sheer top went dark instead of transparent! I did get it all on film though and it was funny when people unexpectedly got soaked.
After spending a good half an hour wringing out our clothes in the toilets we (and our water trail) decided to plod on to Hogsmeade.
After spending a good half an hour wringing out our clothes in the toilets we (and our water trail) decided to plod on to Hogsmeade.
Hogsmeade is absolutely gorgeous! they made everything look SO real and even Hogwarts looked incredible.
Even though our clothes were starting to dry out, we were all still a bit chilly so a warm drink from the three broomsticks was perfect. I don't like tea or coffee so I had a hot butterbeer instead which basically tasted like steamed milk with very sweet caramel syrup in it!
Things had quietened down by now so we thought that we would give the Hogwarts ride a go. Bear in mind - we had no idea that this is basically the BEST ride in the whole theme park. It was a short queue and we were like, okay yeah another ride simulator, this might be good.
Oh my! It was an absolutely incredible ride. It mixed between the screen and real scenarios and you literally got stuck working out if it was real or not. I found myself ducking and moving my legs out the way of fake objects. The key is to not look up behind you because the edge of the screen is slightly visible and if you don't do that, it makes it more real. We all know it's fake - there's no point disturbing the magic of it to prove so!
The park was closing now, so we slowly headed towards the exit after a 10 minute chill; passing through Suessland on the way. It was so colourful and I got a gorgeous view of the park over the lake at night. Beautiful!
Even though our clothes were starting to dry out, we were all still a bit chilly so a warm drink from the three broomsticks was perfect. I don't like tea or coffee so I had a hot butterbeer instead which basically tasted like steamed milk with very sweet caramel syrup in it!
Things had quietened down by now so we thought that we would give the Hogwarts ride a go. Bear in mind - we had no idea that this is basically the BEST ride in the whole theme park. It was a short queue and we were like, okay yeah another ride simulator, this might be good.
Oh my! It was an absolutely incredible ride. It mixed between the screen and real scenarios and you literally got stuck working out if it was real or not. I found myself ducking and moving my legs out the way of fake objects. The key is to not look up behind you because the edge of the screen is slightly visible and if you don't do that, it makes it more real. We all know it's fake - there's no point disturbing the magic of it to prove so!
The park was closing now, so we slowly headed towards the exit after a 10 minute chill; passing through Suessland on the way. It was so colourful and I got a gorgeous view of the park over the lake at night. Beautiful!
Thankyou so much for reading! I hope you enjoyed it and have any of you been on the Hogwarts ride? What's your favourite ride in Islands of Adventure?
Click here for day 2 of Florida if you missed it! Universal Studios, Flying Cows and Applebees!
I now have day 4 up aswell, if you want to click here for that!
I now have day 4 up aswell, if you want to click here for that!
R.C. xx
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