Epic East Coast - Day 22

Jonathan

The first ride we went on was Transformers, and we got to ride in a Transformer car, but it wasn't actually a Transformer.  The Woody Woodpecker rollercoaster was very short and we got to go on it lots of times.  The Curious George area was fun as you got to spray water at targets with cannons and cause buckets of water to fall on people!

Evan

Well, it's me again and today we went to Universal Studios. We started by looking at how long the line was for Minion Mayhem. But that line was 80 minutes of wait time. So we went to the Transformers ride which was awesome! Then we went to the Curious George play area. Then we went to The Woody Woodpecker rollercoaster.

Jason

I survived and even managed to spend more money on stuff than I needed to.  We weren't very quick out of the gate this morning, and Orlando traffic was miserable, which meant it was 9:30am before we arrived in the park.  Sandra wanted the older boys to go on the Minions ride right away, but the wait time was already too long, so I took them to the Transformers ride while Sandra took Bradley to a kids area.  The Transformers ride had a longer line than the number outside showed, and it was kind of fun, but not really that interesting - basically the car moves around while large screens show Transformers in front of you.  Evan and Alex loved it, but Jonathan got terrified halfway through and covered his eyes for the rest of the ride.

We then joined Sandra and Bradley and ran through a Woody Woodpecker rollercoaster five times (no lines!).  For lunch, we ate at Krusty Burger, which allowed me to have a ribwich, which was good, but decidedly not canon.  We then went over to the Harry Potter themed part of the park, which was very, very busy.  I did manage to try Butterbeer (not a fan) before we took the Hogwarts Express to the other park, where the crowds and heat got even worse.  You couldn't see anything but people, which meant that it was not fun or interesting.  We rode a bit of bigger roller coaster and then headed to the Dr. Seuss area, where it rained.  That shut things down outside, but allowed us to go through the Cat in the Hat ride three times.

The rest of the rides in the second park were on the extreme side and we ended up with some upset kids, as Sandra and I were unwilling to go on the rides, especially with the kids barely big enough to ride them.  We did get to meet Spiderman, which impressed Bradley.  It was then getting late, so we headed back to the first park, ran through the Woody Woodpecker rollercoaster a few times and then headed out.

We fed the kids a phenomenal supper of chips and crackers before getting everyone into bed.  Tomorrow we head out to Key West for the actual vacation part of our vacation.