Trip Report Will it ever stop raining? Our June 2017 trip

Hi, all!! I've finally had a chance to start going through my photos and thought I would get started on my trip report! For those of you not familiar, here is my pre-trip report:
Adventure is out there...June 2017
If you don't want to read the PTR, here is a brief synopsis before I get started:
Who: Me (Amy), DH (Brian), DS Logan (14), DD Lily (12), and DS Owen (9)
When: June 2-17, 2017
Where: Universal Studios (Hard Rock Hotel), Disney (Art of Animation), and SeaWorld

For those of you who followed along with the live portion of my PTR, I apologize that some of the photos will be the same. I'm too lazy to go back and remember which ones I used!

I experienced one of the longest days of my life on Friday, June 2!! We left Dayton, Ohio before 5am.

Neither one of us drinks coffee, but we definitely needed some caffeine to start our morning! We stopped for the best Coke in the world!!

McDonald's!!
We had a little delay in Cincinnati because I-75 was closed both directions and we had to take a little detour.
We waved @LisaBelle and @21stamps and any other Cinci friends as we finally drove over the bridge and entered Kentucky!

We made sure to get past Lexington before morning rush hour, and stopped in Richmond for breakfast.

The kids had never had Chick fil A for breakfast, so we had to correct that!

 

[12in12]

All the best to Brian, I hope he recovers soon! I liked the pictures of the character breakfast, I love Minions and wouldn't mind meeting one.

 

[TheMouseFan]

Who knew you you could do character meals at universal too!
Wishing Brian a speedy recovery. And maybe we will be seeing another pre trip report soon!

They offer a couple at dinner and a couple at breakfast, but they are only offered on certain days of the week.
Probably no PTR anytime soon. I would love for it to happen, but we have so much going on right now! We went into this trip knowing it would probably be the last for awhile!

 

[TheMouseFan]

All the best to Brian, I hope he recovers soon! I liked the pictures of the character breakfast, I love Minions and wouldn't mind meeting one.

Thanks, he's doing well so far! It was a very enjoyable experience!

 

[mousefreak]

Just now catching up with your TR. I've been looking forward to it. "Barely on speaking terms". Lol

 

[TheMouseFan]

Just now catching up with your TR. I've been looking forward to it. "Barely on speaking terms". Lol

Thanks for reading! Well, the words that were spoken weren't very nice!

 

[blreinsel]

The character breakfast looks fun! It is somewhat odd to me that they include Simpsons characters at that type of meal considering that most of the audience at character meals are kids... who really shouldn't be watching The Simpsons.

 

[TheMouseFan]

The character breakfast looks fun! It is somewhat odd to me that they include Simpsons characters at that type of meal considering that most of the audience at character meals are kids... who really shouldn't be watching The Simpsons.

Yeah, I thought that was kind of funny too! I was surprised when I saw them walk through the door because all of the pics I had seen and reviews I had read showed and talked about the Despicable Me characters (Minion, Gru, Agnes,etc) and the Hop characters. Oh well, it was fun!

 

[MerMom1981]

I'm over here, just waiting for Pandora and Bon Voyage pictures... Don't mind me.

I never thought I'd want to visit Uni, but you've got me reconsidering my position..

Glad to hear that Brian is recovering well!

 

[TheMouseFan]

I'm over here, just waiting for Pandora and Bon Voyage pictures... Don't mind me.

I never thought I'd want to visit Uni, but you've got me reconsidering my position..

Glad to hear that Brian is recovering well!

Pandora is relatively soon. Bon Voyage was the second to last day, so you may be waiting awhile!
I think everyone should try Uni at least once. I'm sure we'll be back at some point.

 

[TheMouseFan]

Monday, June 5
Today was our last day at Universal. You can check out via email, so we were up early, had the car loaded, and checked out in time to head to IOA for early entry.
Had to get one more pic of the fountain!

Then we made the walk over and in to IOA for the last time.





They route you through Seuss Landing on early entry days.



Then through The Lost Continent.

 

[TheMouseFan]

We spent the early entry time playing with Owen's interactive wand, riding Flight of Hippogriff, and just wandering around Hogsmeade.










This is the patio where we ate our Three Broomsticks lunch the first day:

 

[TheMouseFan]

Then we continued on through Jurassic Park.








Entrance to Jurassic River Adventure since I didn't take a pic the day before:

 

[TheMouseFan]

Owen decided he wanted to ride Pteranodon Flyers. He was the only one short enough, and he could only take one other taller person on with him, so he and Lily rode. Brian, Logan, and I explored the area. It is a really nice little place!








I wanted to go on just to see what the views were like, but the line was getting too long for the others to want to wait for us!

 

[amjt660]

Thank you for the pics of the flyers
We have never been on because no one in my family ever made the height required
So your pics are the first I have ever seen of the ride or queue

Max

 

[TheMouseFan]

We had a specific destination in mind, but Owen wanted to stop at Kong on the way. No one objected, so we jumped in line.


Then through Toon Lagoon.




I didn't crop these appropriately, and I'm too lazy to fix them right now! You get the idea!!

 

[TheMouseFan]

More Toon Lagoon:



Then on to Marvel Super Hero Island:






Then it was time to ride Spidey:

 

[TheMouseFan]

Logan and Lily decided they wanted to ride Dr. Doom's Fear Fall, so I took them on that while Brian took Owen to meet Spidey.



Then we made our way to Hulk for one last ride.



It was just before 11:00 when we exited, so we discussed what we wanted to do for lunch. Brian had really enjoyed our fish and chips at Three Broomsticks, and Lily really wanted to go back to Diagon Alley, so we decided to try Leaky Cauldron. We walked to the front of IOA, and used the side entrance by Blue Man Group to get in to Universal Studios.

 

[TheMouseFan]

We again got several orders of fish and chips to share. I was the only one to get a Butterbeer this time though!







It was good, just not as good as Three Broomsticks! I think part of it was the atmosphere. I don't like that they told you where to sit and you were right on top of the people beside you!

 

[TheMouseFan]

Thank you for the pics of the flyers
We have never been on because no one in my family ever made the height required
So your pics are the first I have ever seen of the ride or queue

Max

I understand that they restrict it because the ride is so short, but I think it would be a popular ride if they made an adult version of it! However, I like anything that will take me high enough to get a different perspective on the surrounding area!!

 

[TheMouseFan]

Back out into Diagon Alley:


The kids wanted to go in to Ollivanders to watch the little show.


It was cute, but definitely not something I will be doing again!
Then Lily wanted to pick out another wand, so Brian took her to do that while I got lots more pics!