Family Vacation Wrap Up

Wow, am I a slacker.  I did really well getting the first part of vacation posted and then apparently took a blogging vacation.  Now over a month later, a quick wrap up of our Orlando Vacation.

Just inside the gates, were some fun animals for the kids to climb 

Getting ready to start our adventures, we found an overlook that showed us the different places we could go in Universal's Island of Adventure

Our first stop was a big hit with the kids-Seuss Landing

We explored around "If I Ran the Zoo" where we found this strange little animal crawling around

Here Graeme and Jadyn found the water zone

Bouncing along

Picture with Joe

More water fun

Riding the Caro-Seuss-el

Liam sat amongst the Truffula Trees

The kids took off to ride a fish

The great thing about adventures in February, we didn't have to wait to ride the rides or to jump right back on and ride them again.  

While Mike took Jadyn and Graeme on the Trolley Train Ride, Liam and I went over to meet the Grinch.  He told us his heart was still 2 sizes too small!

We still aren't sure if they were along for the ride or were being picked up by the cops :-)

As we walked around, Graeme and Jadyn enjoyed random photo ops

We then arrived at the one really busy area of the park, the new Wizarding World of Harry Potter.  We didn't explore here very much and the rides here were busy, so we walked through and just looked around.

The castle

Next we explored Jurassic Park.  This area had a lot of fun places for the kids to play.

They could look through the eyes of a stegosaurus.

They could check out the dinosaur egg hatchery

Next was Toon Lagoon.  The kids really enjoyed Popeye's ship where they could slide, explore and climb.

Once again, Liam and I explored while the big kids played.  

He got to meet Popeye and Olive Oil.

I took Jadyn's picture here to send to her parents, loved her facial expression!

Next we journeyed through the Marvel Heroes area

As we finished our circuit of Universal's Island of Adventures, the kids found some ducks to feed the last of our popcorn.  Graeme chased them and Jadyn even tried to feed one of them by hand.  They were pretty fun to watch.

The rest of our vacation, Mike had his conference.  The kids and I hung out around the hotel and ended up playing in the fountain at Downtown Disney each day.  We had a great time!