Hogsmeade

After lunch, we pretty much spent our time roaming around Hogsmeade. The place's so charming, I wouldn't mind living here. Really. I think they pretty much have almost all the stores that are in the books and they all decorated prettily too. Here's the last set of the photos.

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Of course on of the things that you should probably do when you're in Hogsmeade is to try the famous Butterbeer. I'm always curious to know how this drink would taste, and it was goood. First thing first though, although it's called Butterbeer, it's a non-alcoholic drinks. They have two kinds of Butterbeer—cold or frozen. The cold Butterbeer was served with ice and the frozen Butterbeer was served just like a slush drink with froth on top. The taste? It tasted like cream soda and butterscotch and it wasn't bad at all. I liked the frozen Butterbeer better than the cold one and I even got seconds (I blame it on the hot weather :p).

Also, we met Ollivander (or at least the Ollivander who was on shift at the time) of the Ollivanders—Makers of Fine Wands. Watched him do his things where he helped an audience to picked her perfect wand. The experience was pretty cool.

And this wraps up my Universal Studio adventure.  Next up for my travel series will be the Disneyworld adventure. And so the theme parks hopping will continue :) Stay tuned. 

Three Broomsticks

For lunch, we went to Three Broomsticks. This rustic tavern serves pretty good food I may say. We ordered their Spareribs Platter, Fish and Chips, and Rotisserie Smoked Chicken Platter and they were all good. And oh, loved the interior of the place. 

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The Wizarding World of Harry Potter

Continuing with our Universal Studio adventure, this was probably my favorite part of the trip, visiting the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. YAY! I'm a big fan of the Harry Potter series and practically grew up waiting for each book to come out. So I'm totally psyched being able to visit this part of the park. I think they really did a great job making the set and there were so many details to look at. And it's kind of fascinating too to see how they interpret all the things and places from the book and how they're different from what I've imaged in my head all these time.

We started with riding the rides and then kinda just roamed around the area sight-seeing the shops. Anyway, I have plenty of photos so I'm breaking the posts down to three parts. So here's the first set of the photos :)

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To be continued to part two...

Universal's Islands of Adventure

For our day two of our theme parks hopping, we continued exploring Universal Studios by visiting the Islands of Adventure park. The weather was gorgeous, blue sky, warmer temperature. Combined that with the colors on Seuss Landing, this was one of my favorite spot during the trip. Seuss Landing is sooo colorful. Makes you happy just by being in that place :) 

Then, we went to the Marvel Super Hero Island where they have the more crazier rides. I hate heights, so I didn't really go on much of the rides. But my sisters, they're more into those stuff and rode some crazy ones. I don't know how they do it. 

Universal Studios Florida

The day after we arrived in Orlando, we visited Universal Studios Florida. The weather was pretty cold, but not that cold, compared to the snow storm that was happening in the east coast. But it was definitely colder than the usual weather. Since we went after the New Year celebration, the Christmas decorations were still up on the theme parks. I totally loved the feel of the holiday season. Lining up for rides during holiday season was another thing tho. Since school was still out, the park was pretty crowded and you had to wait at least 1 hour for rides. The Despicable Me ride was the craziest, I think the wait time was 4 hours or so. We kinda skipped the long waits rides and opted for the shorter one and just explored the parks with the time we had.