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Universal's Island of Adventures.--What We Did

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We were all set, we had a plan, first things first, Harry Potter. So, as soon as we entered the park we walked straight to: The Wizarding world of Harry Potter - Hogsmeade. We took few pictures during this walk and went straight to the HP & the Forbidden Journey ride. we knew Avi wasn't going to be able to ride it and since it was only us three we decided to do the "single rider" line. The good thing about it is that you don't have to wait so long, but the bad thing is that we didn't get to "tour the castle," instead we took a short cut.  Pablo and I didn't mind so much since we had already been there, but this was Avi's first time so I asked if we could do the tour while Pablo was on the ride (instead of waiting in the child swap room) and they let us. Even though we did it backwards, it was pretty cool. We did a total of 30 minutes in this ride, from entrance to exit.  Once we got out we decided to ride on Flight of the Hi...

Epcot is about countries and stamps.

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The first thing we did as we walked through the gates was hop on the "future" ride. I got paired up with Avi and I read the questions to her and she chose the answers, she let me choose some of them so the future we got was a mixture of both of us. From there we headed towards the seas with Nemo & friends, but on our way I decided to stop by for a picture with Baymax. It was a longish wait time but we made up for it by talking to the people in front of us who gave us recommendations on what rides to do ASAP! We did the Nemo/aquarium ride & then went to the turtle talk show. As expected it was pretty funny, and Avi added to it: We then headed over towards the lake and bumped into Daisy. We waited in line while some of us went across the street to buy an autograph book from the gift shop (best $13 dollars spent), and then got her signature and took pictures with her. Mexico The first country on the left side  we got on the three amigos ride, an...

What Theme Parks to Visit in Orlando, FL.

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Back in January we took a road trip from Charlotte to Orlando. The last time we had been in Orlando (January 2010) Pablo and I were able to go to the Universal Studios Resort and everyone else (including 1 y/o Avi just enjoyed doing "free" activities around Orlando. This time the whole family was planning on spending a couple of days in the theme parks, Disney included. (Backstory: Pablo is the baby of the family and that makes me the baby of his family too, haha) While discussing what we would be doing during this trip the "older adults" decided four nonstop days of theme parks was too much for them (and their kids). So they opted for going to the theme parks three out of the four days in Orlando. They needed to have a rest day. Going to Orlando - Choosing a Theme Park Walt Disney World: Four options, which park shall we choose? It that tough a choice since we all new what we wanted. something fun yet not to stressful -as if! We opted for Magi...

Austria and Prague for Three, Please

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It's my second time linking up with Wanderful Wednesday , and am excited to start sharing more about our recen trip to Austria and the Czech Republic. We had been planing the trip for a while. Dany (my brother in law) was coming to Baden-Baden for work and since this guy loves his beer, we decided Prague was a must and since Vienna had been high on our list we took advantage of the trip and visit this lovely city. We started looking into transportation options in March and Pablo found a good deal on Eurowings where it would cost 125 euros for the 4 of us to get from Vienna to Hamburg (on Apr 12) and booked it. A week after we booked it Dany let us know that his work trip had been postponed. :/ We checked online, and there wasn't anything we could do. Changing the flight date cost around 300 euros, so no thanks. We lost that money. We waited and let him know that the best week for them to come in May was May 9-12, as every other week in May has at least one public hol...