I was feeling icky when we woke up Wednesday morning, likely from all the sugary snacks and drinks we had the day before. I told my husband that I wanted a real breakfast, so we headed down to the The Kitchen. For what is on this buffet, we felt that it was extremely over priced. The food was good, but there just wasn't enough to justify a $65 bill (and that was after I pointed out that Scarlett was only two).
My husband was also running low on cigarettes. He didn't want to pay $16 for a pack, that wasn't even his brand, at The Rock Shop. I had read that we could walk from Portofino Bay to a Walgreens so we started walking in the direction of Portofino. This is another gorgeous resort, but I think that the distance away from the parks makes it a little less desirable (at least for us) than HRH or RPR. We walked around to the far side of the resort and found the service entrance. From there, it was a short walk to a 7-11. I saw a McDonalds close by and wished I'd waited to get breakfast there. We also saw the Walgreens I had read about.
We headed back to City Walk and started the day in Islands of Adventure. This was our coldest day yet and all of the big rides were closed in the morning due to the weather. Rip Ride Rocket never did open.
We rerode Spiderman since it had broken down with my husband and Maddy earlier in the week. This time, it broke down with me and Maddy, but they did get a good ride. What is with this one?
We revisited Seuss Landing and rode everything there again.
We started walking towards Hogsmeade, but decided to heck out Poseidon's Fury. A nice park guest took our picture.
We didn't quite make last call so we ended up waiting a full twenty minutes in a dark hall. This attraction is severely dated and some parts of it scared Scarlett, but the rest of us actually liked it. Walking trough the water tunnel is the coolest part.
We found a smoking area kind of behind Poseidon's fury. This was a strange area, I don't know if the building here is vacant or if it is part of Poseidon's fury, but it was all roped off. I pulled up the app and discovered that The Hulk was running again so we crossed back through Seuss Landing to get back to it.
Madilyn walked through the line with me this time, but she freaked out at the last possible moment. The ride attendant let her walk across the ride vehicle to wait in rider swap. Jamie had another turn after me and said he liked it better knowing what to expect.
I rode Dr. Doom by myself because no one else wanted to get on it. I didn't realize that it goes up hard and drops you more softly instead of the other way around. This makes it tamer than I originally thought.
We walked around by Reign of Kong to get to Hogsmeade. The bridge was less crowded today, but the area in front of the castle was packed.
As you can see, Scarlett was out cold by this point. Hagrid's ride was actually up and running, but we hated to get her out of the stroller to go through the line. Jamie did manage to take her out without waking her while we rode the Hogwarts Express back to the Studios. I actually bought three park hoppers in part so we could ride this, but on a budget trip I would be perfectly okay with missing it. I am glad we got to do it, though. With so many days, I think we would have been okay being stuck in just one park for the day.
We took turns riding Transformers, with one adult staying outside with Scarlet in her stroller.
We headed out of the park and into City Walk, taking a few pictures as we went.
Somebody finally woke up.
It was starting to sprinkle, but not very hard. We went into the Universal Store at City Walk where Madilyn picked out a Slytherin shirt. You will see her wear it on our last day.
We walked over to Bubba Gump Shrimp to ask about their wait times. They were able to seat us right away.