At the Ritz Carlton, we got a room on the 37th floor and they have this corner in the room where the window meets so you can overlook the city with nothing but glass. It had a great view. The room had a really old-school charm and sophistication. The bed was large and one of the most comfortable one I've been on. The washroom was 1/3 the size of the room with a bathtub, separate shower and toilet. They have a turn down service where someone comes to remove all the decorative pillows on your bed, pull down the corners of the cover, put bottles of water on the bedside table, fill the ice bucket and refill all the tea and coffee packets. It was really nice. We did a video of a tour of the room :)
Universal Studios
We spent the first day walking around the park and going on various rides. It was super hot and there's not much shade so Neil had to get this cape-like towel to put over his shoulders and head. Almost everyone in the park was sporting one of these in various characters. Neil had a spiderman one. It was great because it's a towel you can use to wipe your sweat. The bad thing about theme parks are the lines. There are lines everywhere for everything and you really need to pick and choose what you want to do or you'll spend 60% (20% walking around) of your time just lining up. We only did a few rides including Back to the Future, Spiderman, Jaws and watched a musical show about monsters. Most of the narrative in these rides were in Japanese so it was quite funny since we couldn't understand at all. While in the BTTF ride, Neil hit his head several times while in the Delorean. Good thing the musical was in English so we could understand it. With the heat we were quite exhausted so we picked up some dumplings and takoyaki and brought it back to the hotel. Then we relaxed for the rest of the night because the next we're going to be early to see the Harry Potter theme park.
Wizarding World of Harry Potter
I still remember how excited I was when I heard that a HP theme park was opening in Orlando. I wanted so bad to go there but never had the time and money. Then I found out they had one in Osaka (opened last year) I had to go! I've been waiting for this day for a very long time. We got there bright and early so we could line up and get our entrance tickets. We arrived at about 9:30am and lined up for about half an hour and finally got a ticket to enter at 10:40am. We sat down at a cafe had a small bite and waited to enter. Since we were quite early there wasn't that many people, which was awesome. The path into the theme park was everything I hoped for. The decor inside was amazing. It looked soooo good. We went to have some food right away because it was definitely going to get busy later. My first taste of the iced butter beer was magical! It was so creamy, caramel-y and delicious! I was just so enamored the whole day. To make our experience even more special we both got a wizard/witch robe. Neil with his Sythlerian and I with Hufflepuff. We got our fill of seeing everything but there was only a few rides in there. And each ride had very long line ups. We decided on the ride that takes us into Hogwarts Castle. We lined up for 3 hours! But even so, the ride was super awesome so it was at least worth it. But by then we were both exhausted and didn't want to be stuck in anymore lineups. We headed. I know that it would look really amazing at night but unfortunately we're too tired, so we headed home. We had some Bubba Gump before getting back to the hotel. It was everything I wanted and more!
This trip will go down in history as one of the best :) A trip that changed our lives!
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