2013 Holiday Day 11 - Universal Studios & Disneys Animal Kingdom

Master B wanted to go and do some of the rides again at Universal. We only had the car for this morning, so we thought we may as well use it before it had to be returned.

After being parked in the cool interior of the multi-storey it was back to the roof and the hot Florida sun again... Why? It's pointless... Anyway, we cracked on over to Despicable Me and there was a queue already, even though the park had only just opened. It was quoted 20 minutes, and it probably was that, but it was a bit boring to queue. There was a fun quiz going on on TV monitors spread aroumd, but you couldn't hear the sound. Anyway, it was as good the second time - and didn't break down!

Master B and Mrs B rode Transformers again whilst I checked out Starbucks. There only a 5 minute queue. We then went to Men In Black where a rather silly man wouldn't let Mrs B on without taking off her camera bag that was strapped securely round her waist. She gave him a few words of advice about what he could do with said camera bag, before we quit the ride. Master B and I went back without camera bags whilst Mrs B soaked up the Florida sunshine (it was another warm day).

We then quit the park to take the car back. Those nice people at Alamo dropped us off at...

Disney Animal Kingdom

...where we went to Camp Minnie Mickey to have a photo with Donald in his safari gear (irony is Mickey & Minnie have moved out!). We then legged it back to the main entrance to go to the Rainforest Cafe as we were starving! We got seated quite quickly (unfortunately next to a waterfall that was rather noisy) before ordering a hot dog for Master B (with some crisps), Mrs B had fried shrimp with slaw and fries and I had pot roast with mashed potato. We had some desserts; Mrs B went for cheesecake and I had a chocolate cake. We washed it down with soda. It was OK. The food was nothing special, but it wasn't horrible either.

Mrs B and Master B then joined the Wilderness Explorers club. You get a book of different challenges that earn you badges in different parts of the park. It's good fun. You get to walk around, talk to some of the experts and look for hidden codes and signs. I was happy following them around, holding the jumpers and watching the world go by as they did their challenges. We also stopped at The Boneyard which is a huge dinosaur-themed playground for kids. It was huge!

I think we must have spent a good couple of hours doing this as it was quite late when we finally left the park.

It was chill out and TV back at the villa before bed!