I woke up at 6:30 a.m. dressed up and packed all my stuff. Then we had a good breakfast at the hotel and everyone ate as much as they could because in the Universals food is really expensive! We left the hotel at 7:50 a.m. and had a 20 min drive to the Universals where we paid 30$ just for parking and everybody (reduced price for students) a little more than 100$ for their tickets. But it was worth it!
While I was walking by this huge buildings I was reaally overwhelmed and it is impressive how much work is behind every building. After a short meeting with our teachers we had 10 hours time to get our way through this big space! 🙂 First Ana, Annemarie and I went to the Diagon Alley. It was so impressive to just jump into the world from Harry Potter because all stores and also the dragon on the roof top of Gringotts became alive. We walked through many stores and everything seemed as in the movies and it was so impressive to me how good the things became reality out of the literature.
Our first Ride was in the Gringotts bank where we first walked through the whole building and it looked exactly as in the movies! Then Ana got a shocking Email from the hotel- I had forgot my passport there (I didn’t even wanted to bring it with me but before the outlet mmall yesterday I put it out because I realised I had it with me…) . So I called our teacher and she told me that everything is alright and that we will get it later on the way home. I honestly felt bad because everyone had to drive an extra route because of me but on the other hand I’m very glad that they found the passport this early and my teachers weren’t angry! So we went on the Gringotts Ride and that was so much fun and the technology behind every hologram was fantastic! 🙂
After that we went to London Kings Cross Station and took the Harry Potter Express to Hogsmead as in the movies it was really impressive and it looked exactly the same!
At Hogsmead we walked through the village and it looked with the snow on the roof tops really magical and the Hogwarts castle + walking through it + the ride inside – crazy fantasic! ✨✨ We walked through the Island of Adventure part and then took the Hogwarts Express back to the other part of the Universals.
There Annemarie, Ana and I did the Fast and Firous and the Transfomers Ride. Both were rides from series I’m not so familiar with but that was not a big problem and I enjoyed both rides 🙂
We met Mr. Costa and Mrs. Kaindl and Mrs. Kaindl and I wanted to ride the biggest red rollercoaster there but as we waited the attraction was interrupted by the weather (too much wind) and so Annemarie and I walked a little bit around and got something to eat (the „Brezn“ in the US can not be compared to the German, especially Bavarian ones! ). And we took the Revenge of the Mummy Ride which was soooo much fun! First we thought it wasn’t a rollercoaster so we were really surprised when our wagon suddenly fall backwards and then had a lot of high speed and good curves – all in the dark 🌑! 🙂
With Mr. Costa and Mrs. Kaindl we rode the Hogwarts Express back to the Islands of Adventure where we stood in line for 95 min to get on the Hagrids Ride – my personal favorite of all rides, it was soooo much fun, magical, fantastic and really worth it! ✨
Our last ride was the Spiderman Ride and as an end of such an overwhelmingly wonderful day it was perfect! 🙂 ✨✨✨
So we had to say goodbye to the Universals and left it at 6 p.m. 🙂 On the way to the hotel I felt bad because everyone was stopped by me but my teachers said that’s alright and so I got my passport in one minute at the reception and was so happy about it! 🌸
After that we drove home and had a break at PandaExpress where I got great noodles, greens and Orange Chicken (for what PandaExpress is famous for) for dinner and it was delicious! 🙂 I ended up in a conversation with my teacher about politics all over the world and the US in general which was very interesting!
Sarah and Piper picked me up at DA and welcomed me so sweet and drove me home! Then I just went straight into bed (I write this article one day later)! 🙂
It was such an amazing day and the Universals showed me how important having fantasy is. Because it sourrunds us in our allday life but we don’t notice it as in the Universals because it is not what we see in real life but it is what we can imagine and we have so many ways to it – books, series, movies… The list goes on and on – what for a wonderful day! ✨:)
