Let's be honest, the real reason we saved for two years for a Florida pilgrimage has everything to do with MAGIC! The kids finally got to experience Harry Potter's universe!
Aunt Misty turned all the kids - even babies - into death eaters right from the get-go - in hopes that the crowds would part before us.
Mind your head on the night bus!
We rode the Hogwart's Express from Diagonally to Hogsmeade and back again!
We let our wands choose us! In fact, June had the honor of participating in the wand selection ceremony. Choose the wrong wand and all hell breaks loose in Ollivander's. Luckily the right wand selected June! It was just like Harry's own first day in Diagonally! Jaws hit the ground all day!
We tried our best to enter the Ministry of Magic, and we ran into this familiar owl!
We rode the Dueling Dragons (dizzy, dizzy, dizzy!) Escape from Gringott's Bank, and my favorite - Harry's Hogwart's Adventure! Winnie loved Hagrid's coaster. I think she road it continuously until we made her get off!
Who can say no to Cornish pasties and fish and chips in the Three Broomsticks?
And Butterbeer was better than they ever imagined!
You can't visit Harry Potter World without putting your new wand to good use and casting spells all over town!
Make it rain, Evil-K!!!
Okay, to be fair, there are other rides to visit in Universal Studios. The kids had a ball taking the plunge on the Jurassic Park water ride. Klive also really enjoyed Spiderman's wild ride. The Johnson's and Papa rode the big, giant roller coasters while the rest of us wusses watched some movies set to fireworks and sat for a reenactment of Water World. As you can see, we loved it all so much, we ook next to no pictures of anything but the wizarding world.
I finally got brave enough to ride The Mummy - it was a pleasant, thrilling surprise! These two are such hams! This is what they do everywhere we go!
But nothing beats the magical world of HP! They are already dying to go back!
