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Monday 17 August 2015

Isle of Adventures

An early start this morning as we wanted to be at Universal as near to rope drop as we could. We made good time and were parked and heading to City Walk before 9.30am.

We had popped into IoA earlier this trip, but this time wanted to ride as many of the attractions as we could.



Miss B and Miss H started with the Hulk as it had a standby time of 10 minutes.

Next up was Jurassic Park. It's a standing joke at home that this is on the telly on some channel every week and we watch it on a Sunday. Miss B decided to sit this one out. It's a great ride that kicks off with the gates opening to the title music. A great story and scenery leading up to the inevitable drop. Everyone is now a certainty to be soaked and Mrs J wore her poncho with pride.

Suffice to say that Miss H and I were a little damp. Not to be perturbed by this Miss H and I headed off to do the two remaining water rides Ripsaw Falls and Bilge Rat Barges.

We have to be honest and say that for these we donned our ponchos. We knew we would get soaked anyway but the ponchos would provide some protection... Miss H and I squelched round the park and even 9 hours later we still hasn't dried out, but how we laughed....

Next up was Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey. The standby time was 30 minutes so we decided to queue up and experience the full ride. As we came off we requeued as single riders which took about 10 minutes.

Next up was a family fave Spiderman en route to lunch.

In all our previous visits we have managed to miss the restaurant in the Simpsons land. We corrected that omission today and went to Krusty Burger for lunch.

After lunch we managed the Simpsons, Gringotts and the Mummy before calling it a day and heading back to the villa for a swim.

There was a bit of a mix up with the queues at Gringotts and we somehow managed to end up in the Express Pass queue which meant we only had a wait of 15 minutes. We took this as Karma for our 3 hour wait last year.

We popped out for a lovely meal at Miller's Ale House and am writing this at the villa with a cold beer in hand. This is the life...

Pop back tomorrow for a further update.