Doing Universal - Hogwarts With Adele

 Today was a day of escape to Universal Studios and Islands of Adventures with Adele.  First order of business:  To Islands to visit "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter".  Both Adele and I bought annual passes, so we decided that this visit would be relaxing and we would only do several attractions.  Harry Potter was our primary goal!

 Meeting up with some friends.

 It was a bit warm in the sun, but a beautiful day at the parks.

Entering Hogsmeade.  Our timing was great.  The wait time on the "Forbidden Journey" ride was only 15 minutes!  As we walked onto the ride, Adele pointed out the rows and rows and rows of waiting line queues that they had to walk through on their first visit. The ride was AMAZING!!!

 See!  Florida does have a winter season!

Heading to Hogwarts.

Shops along the way.

Headed to Hog's Head for some butterbeer!

Frozen Butterbeer for breakfast!

Mmmm

Got butterbeer moustache?

Cleaning out the mug.

 This beats the mall!

Now off to Hogwarts!

Impressive!  Nothing like my high school.

The sorting hat.

Adele finds some pink in Honeydukes Sweetshop.

A kid in a candy store!




Eavesdropping . . .

Lunch at Margaritaville.  Coconut shrimp!

Yes . . . it was good!

 Adele loves her shrimp!

Volcano eruption . . .

 After a relaxing lunch, we headed over to the Universal Studios park.

Met up with my Minion friend.

 Adele had a nice chat with Lucy.

I'm tall enough to ride!














This ride was so much fun!  We enjoyed hearing the other people in our car laughing!

 We stopped in this place for a cool refreshing drink.  It was fun the way you selected your soda from the self serve machine.

Just in time for the Beetlejuice Revue.

 Back to the Future again . . .

A what?

 Come to Adele . . . !

It was an amazing day!  Looking forward to many more visits this year!

View as I was driving across Tampa Bay on my way home.  I love it here!!!