We got to Universal early and it is a good thing because the walk from the parking lot to the front gate was about a mile. We were in line with a bunch of others as they prepared to open the gate. We realized when we got there that we had forgotten about the early entry for resort guests. So on our Universal app, it said that the Hagrid line was already 150 minutes. We did not believe it and we raced with a bunch of others to the line. We ended up waiting for about 75 minutes, but it was well worth the wait. One of the coolest rides I have ever been on.
We were going to go to the Velocicoaster next, but we were not wanting to wait in another long line right away, so we decided to go on the Jurassic Work ride and then just continued on around the loop that the park was arranged in, hitting rides as we came to them. We didn't know anything about the King Kong ride, but the line had a lot of cool things that I'm assuming are from the movie.
There was only one ride that Camden could not go on in the park, the Incredible Hulk Roller Coaster. So I stayed with him while the others rode on the ride. They had to go through metal detectors, so Danny had to bring his phone to us after they had gotten in line. As a result, we timed the line wrong and they got off way before we expected them to be done. We rode this spinning ride and then went over to seuss land to see what we could ride there. I knew that was my plan, but I forgot to tell the others since I thought Danny would have his phone. So they were looking all over for us while we rode the carousel and went through a maze. We learned after this, to be better about communicating our plans.
We had a late lunch in this BBQ place. The food was good, but we were also pretty hungry by the time we started eating.
We brought a few of the magical Harry Potter wands along with us. We spent some time casting spells and were disappointed to find that only a few of the windows were actually functional.
We almost walked right on to the Harry Potter ride, thanks to the single rider line.
The kids wanted to ride it again, but Danny and I chose to sit and rest instead since the ride made our adult stomach's slightly sick.
Universal loves their 3D rides. I think this was for the King Kong ride.
We finally made it on the Velocicoaster after dark. Alyssa had gotten to ride it with Ashley earlier, so she opted to sit out with our stuff so that we could all ride it. She had a lot of time to walk around the park and take pictures.
We opted for the single rider line because the girls said it took them 30-40 minutes at about the same place it was at when we got in the line. Unfortunately, the ride broke down 3 times while we were waiting. I think it took us an hour and a half to 2 hours to get on the ride. But it was a super fun ride, so we were glad that we got to go on it. We just wish we had found a place to put the backpack so Alyssa could have ridden with us instead of being lonely waiting for us.
We finished the night off with Hagrid's motorcycle ride. The kids (and adults) were exhausted after such a long day and over 20000 steps. We got back to the house around 9:45pm and most of the Knudsen's (who had arrived around 7pm) were already asleep. We got to bed as quickly as possible since we had another early start planned for the next morning.
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