August 29: One Fish, Two Fish, Butter Beer is This Day's Wish

One of the nicest perks of staying on the Universal Resort is that we can enter the parks an hour before the general public has access. This morning, we awoke a bit earlier than we had been to take advantage of that opportunity. We returned to Islands of Adventure, specifically to do the Harry Potter Wand Shop experience; which was a 2-hour wait on our first day at the parks. Today, it was still 45 minutes, but we decided to wait. The experience has about 20 people enter the wand shop. There, the shop keeper selects one child from the audience for whom to find the right wand within the shop. The experience involves some unique special effects to recreate a scene right out of the Harry Potter films. After the wand attraction, we stopped in the street to purchase a Butterbeer. One word: awesome! The park's version is like a caramel/butterscotch Slurpee. I can only imagine the sugar content in one of these things. From there, we ventured back to the side of the park we had not yet visited and Seuss Landing. This was the first time my wife and I rode The High in the Sky Seuss Trolley Train, The Cat and the Hat, the Caro-Seuss-el and the One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish rides. And, it just happened to be my son's favorite attraction in the park! Which, of course, made the experience for my wife and I that much more fulfilling.