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Old 01-23-2011, 05:30 PM   #166
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Glad you were able to ride Forbidden Journey!!! Great pictures from inside the castle. It's almost like you were really at Hogwarts!!
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What a relief I am sooo glad you got to ride! It would have been awful had you not! That ride sounds awesome already!!!! I am not a huge Harry Potter fan & I would love that! Your pictures are great! That line being only about half an hour is wonderful!
I have ridden loads of coaster type rides and this one is definitely the best I have been on!

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Yay!!1 I'm glad you guys got to ride the ride!! I'm not a big fan of US/IOA (we did it about 5 years ago b/c DSS wanted to see Spiderman & really wasn't impressed), but I am so excited about WWoHP! thanks for sharing the pics from inside the castle!
It was impressive in the amount of detail they put in on the castle. Other than this area and the Jurassic area, we really didn't think much of the rest of the park.

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I hate blisters. I hope the crocs helped you the rest of your time there.
We are dying to go to the WWOHP. I called my oldest DD over to look at your pics and she got all mad! We will get there one day I told her.
I am so glad the ride came back up, that would have been devastating.
I hope you do get to go one day, it really is an immersive experience. Although after half a day, we were ready to go. So just a day trip, in my opinion, is more than enough time.

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So glad you finally got to ride it! for all the pictures and explanations of the queue!
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SO glad you got to ride the Forbidden Journey!!! It sounds like so much fun! We can't go to WWOHP this trip, but hopefully next time
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Wow! That looks incredibly cool!!!

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Thanks to all, it was a really incredible experience for us and I was so glad that we had the chance to do it!
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After the ride, we decided it was time to eat something. We went to the Three Broomsticks for lunch and got Cornish Pasties with a salad to share.

And of course Butterbeers! I love the Butterbeer mustache lol.

I have got to say, I loved this drink. I know someone posted an adult version of it and I tried it and it is pretty darn close (yummmm) but I wish I could figure out how to make a similar drink without the alcohol so Scottie can have it again too.
Feeling pleasantly full we decide to take in the Hogwarts Frog Choir.


They were cute, but I wish they had a few more performers in the choir, it would've made it so much more realistic. Next up were the Durmstrang students with their pole routine, we loved it!


Then the Beaux Baton ladies twirling their ribbons, they were very fluid and graceful.


After this Scottie had decided what he wanted to buy with his money, so we went back to Honeydukes where he bought a chocolate frog and a chocolate wand, and I bought him a cauldron cake for his birthday!

Then it was back to the wand cart outside Filch's (there was NO way we were attempting to enter Ollivander's, it had been packed from the time we arrived that morning!!) where Scottie bought his new Dumbledore wand!
Scottie wanted to try a bite of his frog, and was pleased to see that it came with a real collectible card. He got Rowena Ravenclaw. Oh, and those frogs? They are solid and so thick they're hard to bite into lol.

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The chocolate frog looks so yummy. Anything chocolate is yummy to me. Can't wait to hear more.
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You guys sure look like you are having a wonderful time in the wizarding world!! That cauldron cake looks I just have one question! What the heck is a cornish pasty?? Gosh, I wish we were stopping at USF!


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Just got all caught up!! Sounds like you guys had an amazing trip!

The cauldron cake looks yummy! YAY for the Forbidden Journey opening up!! .

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What a wonderful day!! Is the butterbeer like root beer?
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