Last month, my amazing Pampered Chef consultant sister took me on her annual incentive trip to Coronado. We also decided to take an early side-trip to Hollywood and Anaheim to go to Universal Studios and Disney California Adventure!
We arrived in San Diego on Thursday and drove up Anaheim.
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| Road trip! |
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| We're not in Alaska anymore! |
After we arrived in Anaheim, we walked over to Downtown Disney, shopped, and had dinner.
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| Mickey and Minnie hedges at Disneyland Hotel |
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| Me and Donald! |
Friday we drove up to Hollywood to go to Universal Studios Hollywood - mainly to go to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter!
After we entered the park, we headed straight to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter!
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| Flight of the Hippogrif |
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| Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey |
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| Gringotts' ATM |
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| Three Broomsticks and Honeydukes |
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| Inside of Honeydukes |
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| Hogsmeade |
After The Wizarding World, we headed to the home of the Simpsons - Springfield - for lunch.
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| We had lunch at Krusty Burger - it was really good! |
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| Later in the day we rode The Simpsons Ride |
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| Themsed Simpsons' bathrooms |
After lunch, we headed out on the Studio Tour/Ride of the company's studio lots.
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| Universal "city" |
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| Picture cars |
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| Flooding of a Mexican village |
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| Flooding of a subway tunnel |
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| Jaws' Amityville |
After the Studio Tour, we needed a frozen butterbeer. It was in the low 90s, and SO.HOT!
Then we headed down to the Lower Lot, to check out the other rides.
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| View of the studio lots |
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Jurassic Park had misting fans in the long lines.
We got SOAKED on the ride, but dried off very quickly since it was so hot. |
We checked out some shops in the Lower Lot after the Jurassic Park ride.
Then we headed back up to the Upper Lot and ran into Alex the Lion and King Julian from Madagascar!
Then we rode the Despicable Me/Minion Mayhem ride.
Before we left the park, we headed back to The Wizarding World for some shopping.
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| Same DNA. Different (Hogwarts) House. |
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| Inside of Three Broomsticks |
On the way out of the park, we hit up some shops for souvenirs.
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| It's so fluffy!!!!!! |
Outside of the park was Universal's CityWalk, which included VooDoo Doughnuts and Margaritaville - we hit up both.
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| Themed parking garages! |
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| Beautiful drive out of Universal Studios Hollywood |
After dinner, we drove back down to Anaheim, to get some sleep for the
next day at Disney!
