I realize I am about three weeks behind in posting this, but that's actually pretty good for me. After the stress of life and trying to find a job, and then getting jobs and having to decline them, Josh and I decided we needed a vacation. So we flew to Orlando, FL for 5 days over Labor Day weekend and it was incredible! We got to go to Disney World, and Universal Studios Islands of Adventure. My feet have never hurt so bad after spending days standing in lines and walking around HUGE theme parks but it was totally worth it :). Florida is extremely humid so basically in every picture we are either sweaty or our hair looks funny. I didn't even bother trying to straighten my hair or put my bangs down because I knew as soon as we walked out of our hotel room the result would be disastrous.
Here is the resort that we stayed at. It was so nice! We got our own villa which is a fancy word for apartment. My only complaint was that the neighbors decided that it would be cool to throw "kegger parties" every night. It made me realize what an old person I have become. Kinda sad.... there was once a time in my life when I would have probably gone and joined them.... ok probably not but the younger me definitely wouldn't have been as annoyed and angry as the older me was about it lol.
We spent one of our days in Orlando enjoying all the fun activities the resort had to offer. Josh ended up beating me at miniature-golf (barely).
Islands of Adventure was so cool! Possibly even more cool than Disney World (except the lines were much longer). They actually had a Harry Potter land! I was so excited! They had recreated everything exactly as you see it in the movies. We got to go inside Hogwarts (way awesome), visit the different shops in Hogsmeade, and of course, have a true wizard dinner at the Boars Head Pub where I got to have real butterbeer!!! I've always wondered what it tasted like and I can attest to you that it was sooo yummy :).
Another awesome part of that park was Jurassic Park land. As you can tell, it was pretty realistic and just like the movie. It was like wandering around in the real Jurassic Park! They had a really fun water ride that we went on over and over. Right before the T-Rex eats you, the boat you are in suddenly drops off the edge of a waterfall and you literally can't even scream because it catches you so off guard!!
They also had a pretty cool dinosaur museum where, again, everything was just like the movie. FYI, those eggs had dinosaurs inside them and while we were there we watched one of them hatch! Of course they were robots, but still, pretty cool! Right after this picture was taken, one of the eggs started moving and it freaked me out and I jumped and dropped it.....That happened on our honeymoon too while I was holding a sea cucumber.... classic Ashly moment I guess :).
So all in all, it was a really great trip and we would recommend it to anyone! Next time we go down there we plan on going inside the EPCOT Center and going to the other Universal Studios park. It was just too much to do in one week! Hope this wasn't too long of a blog. Trust me, there was a lot more where that came from!
