I have learned much from you about WDW over the years. We are pretty good at it now, but I find your insights fascinating especially since your kids are older than mine and I get great ideas from how you do it for future visits.

We were down in April this year and went to Universal for the first time. Mostly for the HP stuff, which was great. I was really surprised how awesome the Hogwarts Express was. All I knew was it was a train between the two parks and all I could picture was looking out the window at the backlots between two Florida theme parks. Boy was I surprised. It was so cool we actually rode it twice.

I really liked Islands of Adventure, Universal not so much, but it was a good time and I found the theming in both parks impressive even outside of HP. The Seuss land was a big hit with my seven year old and the Simpsons/Springfield area tickled me to death. We only spent one day bc we went to Legoland and three WDW parks on that trip so it was a full week. I would really love to go back and ride some of the big roller coasters like the Hulk, which was closed when we were down, but the twin dragons in Hogsmeade was a great ride and I LOVED the theming in the line.