Early on the second day, we decided to do the major Harry Potter ride, called Harry Potter's Hidden Journey. I think it is the best ride I've ever been on. First you walk up to Hogwarts and then walk all through the castle. We walked past Dumbledore's office where Dumbledore talked to us. Now I know it was a holographic projection, but it was done so well that it really, truly looked like a real person standing there talking to us. And as we walked through lots of corridors, of the course the portraits all talked to each other and to us. We even walked past the sorting hat and the portrait of the fat lady that is the entrance to the Griffindor common room. (If you don't know what I'm talking about, then read the Harry Potter books.) At one point Harry, Hermione, and Ron told us that we needed to hurry out to the quiddich pitch. Eventually, we arrived at the great hall where all the candles were suspended from the ceiling and that's where we got into the seats for the ride. They really lock you down in the seats (good thing, too because we got tossed around during the ride), and before we knew it, Hermione cast a spell on us and the floor dropped out from under our feet and we started flying. Then Harry showed up on his broom and we followed him, soaring over Hogwarts and then we dipped down onto the quiddich pitch and started playing quiddich with Harry and the team. Amazing!!! Then, of course, the dementors showed up and Harry told us to make a run for it by following him and we were off on a crazy ride through the forbidden forest (met up with a bunch of spiders and got spider spit in our face) then did a wild turn through the whomping willow and back onto the quiddich pitch where we had to dodge dragons. Eventually we made our way back to Hogwarts, zooming through the corridors, and received a wild reception by Dumbledore and all the Hogwarts students who all told us how brave we were.
The ride is not really a roller coaster and it doesn't do the high velocity G-force stuff that roller coasters do, but nevertheless, it is a wild and very jerky ride. We were tossed right and left and tilted up and down. I admit that I closed my eyes for a few seconds a couple of times. But wow what a thrill. And it really felt like I was on a Firebolt playing quiddich. BEST RIDE EVER.
For the rest of the day we did almost all the rest of the rides and shows in Island of Adventure. Very fun. By the end of the day we were very tired puppies (hey, it's not easy having this much fun!) so we needed some more of our favorite Jimmy Buffett medicine.
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