Fun in Florida part 1

After having beautiful weather in Arizona, we were looking forward to the same in Orlando.  But, were we ever surprised!  It was kind of rainy when we arrived.  A shuttle took us to our hotel near Universal, The  Four Points by Sheraton.  It was a lovely hotel and we were on the 9th floor - 901 was our room number.  We had a terrific breakfast buffet each morning that was included.

Monday morning we took the shuttle bus to Universal Orlando.  Janine was our driver for most of the days.  In our rides to the parks, we met several very nice families.  This family was from Brazil:

We were looking forward the most to going to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.  It was quite the place.
http://www.universalorlando.com/harrypotter/   You can go to this link and see more of it.

They did an awesome job of creating Hogsmead and Hogwarts.

 

 We walked all around the village.  It was so cold!!  Record cold temperatures for Florida.  It was in the 20s!  We went into the Three Broomsticks to have some Butterbeer and hot chocolate and to warm up a little. 

 The view of Hogwarts was so neat!

You really feel like you enter the world of Harry Potter as you walk through the village and then enter Hogwarts.  We walked through the classrooms, past Dumbledores office, through the photo gallery where the pictures were talking and on past the Sorting Hat.  Then we were on the ride where we flew after Harry in quite an adventure!

 After walking around and being so cold, we went into one of the stores and I bought a Gryffindor scarf.  It really helped to feel a little warmer.  

While I looked around at things and waited, Paul went on a couple of rides (I think he went on all the roller coasters that were at the parks - but I'm not interested).  One was Flight of the Hippogriff.  

He also went on the Dragon Challenge.  While he was gone, I looked and purchased a Harry Potter Wand.

We weren't disappointed in Harry Potter World.  It was so interesting to see everything in real life.

Next we were off to Jurassic Park.

We saw dinosaurs that seemed pretty real.

We went on to the Lost Continent where we saw the Mystic Fountain and toured the remains of Poseidon's ancient temple.  

While in the lost continent, we went to Mythos restaurant for lunch and to warm up.  It was a beautiful place and was listed at the top dining place in all the parks in America.  

After lunch, Paul went on the Dragon Challenge roller coaster.

  It doesn't look fun to me.  

While in line he was able to see the car from Harry Potter.

We continued on to Seuss Landing.  It was very clever and fun to see.  

Their makeup looked so real!!

 Quite a carousel!