Universal day 2 – Islands of adventure

Day 2 started out great we had breakfast at the hotel and decided to leave a little earlier than the day before to make sure we got to ride The Hulk!

We walked into the park and saw Hulk only had a 15 minute wait, so we headed straight there. Lar wasn’t y’all enough and Bree was worried about her neck 😉 so she didn’t go. I happily stayed with them, I probably would have ridden if the kiddos hadn’t needed me! 😜

I introduced them to my favorite part about universal, Starbucks!

Right there next to Hulk was Storm Force, Bree and Larsen really wanted to ride so we did it!

Off to our next stop, Forbidden journey!! So we walked around the park bypassing toon town, King Kong, and Jurassic Park! Our goal was to hit those later. Today was well thought out!

Alan got a few pics before their 3D journey began…little did they know this ride was super exciting it flipped them over, on their backs, back, forward! The kids loved it and it was indoors with air conditioning!

I sat outside and roasted! Thankfully I found a small spot of shade! While I sat I watched a small roller coaster next to us and thought when they get off I’m doing that one!! And I did!! In the front row!!! I was excited to ride something with them!

We almost took up the whole train! Ry was brave and rode all by herself!

We were hot, hungry and tired so I decided a pick me up was needed! A cupcake!!! We ALL shared one!

It was so good and exactly what we needed to continue on! We headed through Poseidon’s kingdom to Cat in the hat world!

Larsen wanted to hear them read the book so they walked on that ride and then over to One Fish Two fish!

Only three wanted to ride it so they did!

By this time it was already in the 90’s with high humidity! So a water ride was in order!

Bluto’s Bilge Ray ride!

You will get soaked they said…they did not lie! Thankfully we were able to store our shoes and socks in a dry place and enjoy the roller coaster type ride it was awesome! Never done a river ride so exciting!

And just like they promised, we were soaked! 💦

After this ride we were starving, soaked and hungry so we decided to head to City Walk for lunch then home for a little R&R.

The kids enjoyed some down time at the hotel and then we cooked dinner before we headed back for round two!

Unfortunately as we were waking into the park it started to sprinkle…it wasn’t long before it was pouring and booming! Thunder and lightning and a torrential downpour!

We ran into the first store which thankfully was huge and started shopping around. We looked and shopped for almost an hour and it was still raining. On the map we could see two of the rides we wanted to ride were indoor and continuing to run during the storm so we decided maybe we should just suck it up, and get wet as we headed toward the ride.

Jason has to rest his leg while shopping, he actually saw the building we were in get struck by lightning while he sat!

And that’s just what they did! I however again hung at Starbucks covered from the rain watching everyone run trying not to slip or get wet…which was impossible!

Spider-Man! Larsen was very excited to have made it to this ride. Jason however couldn’t keep up and his poor leg was swollen and not doing well so he came back and hung out at Starbucks until we were ready to leave the park.

I managed to find a poncho Alan had thrown in my bag and headed to meet them after they finished Spider-Man but while I was walking the lightning over hulk was awesome! I was so glad to get a pic! They were all already wet so they wanted to head back to forbidden journey. It was also running in the rain…because it was on the other side of the park. By the time we got there it was a 5 minute wait and the rain had stopped!