Disney Vacation '16: Some Ride Pictures

A few more ride pictures. I don't think all of them were working, though. I never saw any for Harry Potter or King Kong, which would have been classics. 

Disney Vacation '16: When Dinosaurs Attack!

I love ride pictures. The expressions on everyone's face is just priceless. 

This is also pretty spectacular. 

Not quite at good, but still good effort.

Disney Vacation '16: Jurassic Park

Who doesn't love dinosaurs?! Nick really wanted his picture taken in front of the gates and in front of the main building. Inside were lots of fun things to do with the dinosaurs and dino eggs. 

Disney Vacation '16: Mary's Magical Birthday Magic Show

The exit of the Harry Potter 4D ride is a gift shop (obviously) and while we were in there, a worker guy noticed our t-shirts and asked if we wanted a magical birthday magic demonstration. It was pretty cute. 

Disney Vacation '16: Hogwarts!

Yay for Hogwarts! It is definitely a very cool place. Don't let the fake snow fool you, though. It was really hot. The 'big kids' rode the Harry Potter 4D ride. Ben rode it at least 3 times. Nick wasn't tall enough, but he was more than happy with the hippogriff ride, which is a shorter version of the Mine Ride at Cedar Point. We had lunch at the 3 Broomsticks and checked the place out a bit. We escaped without purchasing any ($48!!) magic wands, thankfully!

Disney Vacation '16: Seuss Land

Nick had a little bit of a rough start to the day once we got the ticket thing handled. He suffers from a sever case of hangy and is a terrible person who miraculously changes the second you give him food. Snickers commercials have nothing on him. While he was feeding the monster, Ben and I checked out the impressive Seuss Land at Universal. It was pretty fun. Ben thought at first it was for babies, but then he got into it. They had a carousel of crazy Seuss animals and a little water pad area. And we even got to see Thing 1 and Thing 2! By then Nick had transformed back into himself again and had fun, too!

Disney Vacation '16: Scenes around Universal

The boys wanted some pictures around the park on various random things. 

Disney Vacation '16: Mary's Magical Birthday

Mary's (Grandma's) Magical Birthday was spent at Universal Studios Islands of Adventure. We were 'those people' with matching shirts! It was a really fun day. After a ticket snafu when we go there, we were repaid for our time lost with some fast passes (came in handy later). We spent Grandma's birthday hanging out in Seuss land, Hogwarts, Jurassic Park and with some Avengers!

Disney Vacation '16: The Day With No Pictures

It would appear that no pictures were taken on the Tuesday of our trip (at least by me). We hung out around the house, played in the pool and had a down day. Tuesday night we had a nice dinner at the Columbia Restaurant in Celebration to celebrate Grandma's birthday.

Disney Vacation '16: A Little Star Wars Party Crashing

Hollywood Studios has a special Star Wars dessert party thing every night that includes special seating for the Star Wars fire works show. We were still hanging out in the Star Wars building due to the torential downpour, so we a little bit crashed the party. We saw more storm troopers, one of those little hooded things and had a light saber fight with a Disney guy. The boys LOVED it. And because Disney knows their audience so well, they had a whole room full of Star Wars video games on every imaginable platform - iPad, Infinity, PlayStation... The fireworks were cancelled due to the storm (strike 2 for seeing fireworks at Disney). But it was a legitimate cancellation. We were yards away from getting hit by lightening while were on the shuttle back to the car!