Chuck:
OK, I'll have to say Chantal has influenced me greatly when it comes to roller coasters. We road five times today, although we could have ridden more. We rode "Dragon's Challenge" at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter three times, two of those in the front seats. It's one of those coasters on which your feet dangle into space, and on top of that, in the front seats it feels as though you are flying as you have nothing in front of you except... well nothing. When you finish climbing over a hundred feet up you suddenly drop, and spin, and twist, all at the same time. As the saying goes "what a rush."
We also went on the Incredible Hulk Coaster, in the front row, which is one of the funnest (is that a word) roller coasters I've ever been on. We started the day off, early, by getting early admission (a perk for being a guest at The Hard Rock Hotel) into Universal's Islands of Adventure Park, where Harry Potter World, as we like to call it, is. We headed through the village of Hogsmeade, which includes all of the cool shops from the Potter saga like Honeyduke's, Zonko's, and The Three Broomsticks to Hogwarts Castle to ride "Harry Potter The Forbidden Journey", a truly magical experience that would thrill any fan of the Potter series. To complete the day we had dinner at Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville where we, Chantal and I anyway, had a couple great Margaritas and scrumptious dinner while watching Jimmy Buffet perform on big screens and people on stilts leading the diners in song and yours truly in dancing with a giant salt shaker and embarrassing at least one of my daughters to no end. That's why we are calling this vacation "epic" I guess.
Chantal:
Highlights for me included dancing and playing the air guitar in the elevator in my socks...alone :) Also going roller coaster crazy with dad today. Margaritaville was awesome. Gotta love some good music, yummy margaritas and delicious ribs! Harry Potter World is so cool! Can't wait to try a butter beer tomorrow!
Awesome!
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