Ryan recently attended a conference that happened to be at one of the Universal hotels. We couldn't pass up the opportunity to tag along so off we went!
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| We ended up driving to Raleigh for a direct flight with Southwest. It was so nice to not deal with any connections. |
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| We made it to our hotel! |
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| First order of business- ice cream |
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| It was freezing when we left NC that morning. The boys couldn't believe that they got to go swimming by the afternoon! |
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| I decided to sit this day out. |
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| Meanwhile back home Nene was on duty. |
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| I was impressed she was brave enough to venture to Target. A and K have talked about Target every since. |
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| In addition to a Moana toy set apparently Kate begged to buy some lemons. |
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| We did a low key dinner at the hotel that night. |
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| Harrison- "did you know I like really really like this bread and butter?" |
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| The room even had a kid hang out area and we had the whole place to ourselves. It was great because the boys could run around and act crazy. |
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| We stopped by the hotel gift shop and tested out Harry Potter's wand. In typical fashion when we got to the restaurant that night we realized Harrison had no shoes on. |
The next morning we had early access to Island of Adventures because we were at the hotel so we took the short walk over bright and early.
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| First stop- Harry Pottery World. |
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| The highlight for James was buying a chocolate frog and seeing which card he got. |
Next up was Seuss Landing. This was a huge hit with both boys.
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| I couldn't believe it but James was tall enough to ride a lot by himself. He is growing up! |
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| Nice hair Em... |
From there we went to the Marvel area.
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| We saw an arcade which of course we ended up doing. |
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| Harrison won 250 tickets here! James was so ticked and jealous. |
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| Five minutes later James won the jackpot and got 750 tickets! This was by far our biggest loot ever at these places. |
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| Lots and lots of tickets |
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| One of Harrison's prizes lol. |
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| Afterwards we bumped into Captain America |
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| I took a picture of James in front of the Hulk roller coaster- one of Ryan and I's favorite memories with David and Greer many years ago! |
Ryan left and headed back to the conference while the boys and I kept exploring.
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| They loved these water guns that you could spray people on the ride below |
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| In the Jurassic park area we went on a huge playground. |
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| Back home these two were getting picked up from preschool and getting lots of extra attention. |
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| We waited a long time for this ride which was way up high. It was fun but James had to ride by himself and I admit I was a little paranoid he would either freak out or slide off! |
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| It was time for a break so Dippin Dots it was. I am not a huge ice cream fan but James in particular would always choose ice cream as his dessert of choice. |
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| 5 minutes later... |
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| We walked back through Seuss Landing on our way to the hotel and bumped into the Grinch. |
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| We also found a neat playground. |
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| We finally got back to the hotel and got to meet Gru. |
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| Best of all we got to meet up with Daddy again! |
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