lvcourtneyy
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Nov 24, 2012
It's Best to Do it at a Bit of a Run
After our empty street photoshoot, we decided we were digested enough to take on Rip, Ride, Rock It.
Of course, we couldn't resist more photos on our way there.
I feel like this store is always teeming with people so it was awesome to see it so empty.
We stopped inside to mark another tree off on our scavenger hunt.
As you can see, it was hard to find room to make our way down the street.
We survived our ride with a lot of screaming. Side note: Have you heard about how they've put up signs in Japan on rides asking people not to scream to prevent the spread of Covid? I get the concept behind it but I feel like sometimes you can't help it!
The last ride we wanted to take on before taking the Hogwarts Express to IOA was the Mummy!
For the event, they had shortcuts open to hop between the two parks. So, if you wanted, you could exit on the side of the courtyard in front of Rip, Ride, Rock It and walk over to IOA where you'd come out in Seuss Landing. I thought it was a brilliant idea but we wanted to ride the Hogwarts Express without long lines so we didn't take advantage.
The little park across from the Mummy was all decked out for Christmas and looked gorgeous.
The lights on the tree were twinkling and our little hearts grew 3 sizes.
We got to the Mummy and found a bunch of people hanging around outside but almost no one in line. Perhaps they were non-riders waiting for their parties? They don't know what they're missing!
I love the queue area of this ride but it's so dark and hard to capture pictures of. I took this terrible one to send to my friend Stephanie because she loves the Mummy and has 4 sphinx cats lol.
Also, just in case you forgot who was hosting the event while you were in line:
We had a fun ride but would've enjoyed it more if I HAD GOTTEN MY CUP OF COFFEE
Then, we made our way back to Diagon Alley. We had one specific treat in mind before boarding our train.
This was more people than we'd seen all night combined!
As we made our way to our destination, we passed a cart encouraging us to take bottles of water. Not only is water good for hydration, but I love the themed bottles!
If you didn't guess already, free butterbeer was our goal!
If anyone is going to Universal anytime soon and wants to find a way to ship me some, I'd love you forever.
Even though everything was free for the event, the TMs were ringing them up on the register for inventory purposes I imagine.
A shocking $$ amount of butterbeer at this register alone!
With butterbeer in hand, we made our way to King's Cross station.
I took advantage of the low crowds to show Kimberly the effect of going through platform 9 3/4.
And of course, a boomerang of it cause that's what the kids do these days.
After our empty street photoshoot, we decided we were digested enough to take on Rip, Ride, Rock It.
Of course, we couldn't resist more photos on our way there.
I feel like this store is always teeming with people so it was awesome to see it so empty.
We stopped inside to mark another tree off on our scavenger hunt.
As you can see, it was hard to find room to make our way down the street.
We survived our ride with a lot of screaming. Side note: Have you heard about how they've put up signs in Japan on rides asking people not to scream to prevent the spread of Covid? I get the concept behind it but I feel like sometimes you can't help it!
The last ride we wanted to take on before taking the Hogwarts Express to IOA was the Mummy!
For the event, they had shortcuts open to hop between the two parks. So, if you wanted, you could exit on the side of the courtyard in front of Rip, Ride, Rock It and walk over to IOA where you'd come out in Seuss Landing. I thought it was a brilliant idea but we wanted to ride the Hogwarts Express without long lines so we didn't take advantage.
The little park across from the Mummy was all decked out for Christmas and looked gorgeous.
The lights on the tree were twinkling and our little hearts grew 3 sizes.
We got to the Mummy and found a bunch of people hanging around outside but almost no one in line. Perhaps they were non-riders waiting for their parties? They don't know what they're missing!
I love the queue area of this ride but it's so dark and hard to capture pictures of. I took this terrible one to send to my friend Stephanie because she loves the Mummy and has 4 sphinx cats lol.
Also, just in case you forgot who was hosting the event while you were in line:
We had a fun ride but would've enjoyed it more if I HAD GOTTEN MY CUP OF COFFEE
Then, we made our way back to Diagon Alley. We had one specific treat in mind before boarding our train.
This was more people than we'd seen all night combined!
As we made our way to our destination, we passed a cart encouraging us to take bottles of water. Not only is water good for hydration, but I love the themed bottles!
If you didn't guess already, free butterbeer was our goal!
If anyone is going to Universal anytime soon and wants to find a way to ship me some, I'd love you forever.
Even though everything was free for the event, the TMs were ringing them up on the register for inventory purposes I imagine.
A shocking $$ amount of butterbeer at this register alone!
With butterbeer in hand, we made our way to King's Cross station.
I took advantage of the low crowds to show Kimberly the effect of going through platform 9 3/4.
And of course, a boomerang of it cause that's what the kids do these days.