Here's a quick recap of where we are:
Still living in Evansville, IN. Ethan is 8 and just finished 3rd grade. Kate is 3 and will be starting pre-school in 2 months. Scott is hanging at home with the kids and works a Sunday afternoon shift on WABX. Nothing's really changed with me!
We just got back from a week in Orlando. We stayed at the Hard Rock Hotel at Universal Studios. It was nice and had a lot of perks, but the room was just okay. The highlight of the trip was getting to be among the first people to visit the Wizarding World of Harry Potter!
Ethan and I are huge HP fans (especially me), and it was super awesome getting to walk through Hogsmeade and Hogwarts. We ate breakfast at The Three Broomsticks, got to taste pumpkin juice, Butterbeer, chocolate frogs and Bertie Botts' Every Flavor Beans. It was so crazy...especially since the Hogsmeade rooftops were covered with glittering snow...and it was 90 degrees out!
We got to visit the Owl Post, Ollivanders' Wand Shop (slightly disappointing theatrics) and Dervish and Banges. *It was funny to see Zonko's Joke Shop and Dervish and Banges show up on our bank account statements online!* I got tons of souvenirs, as a true nerd would...but did not get a house robe, like tons of the other fans did-not gonna sport a cloak in 90 degree heat-thank you!
The big highlight of the WWofHP was the Forbidden Journey ride inside Hogwarts...it was pretty incredible-a mix of motion simulation, big screen movie magic and animatronics. It was pretty cool!
Well, that's about all the patience I have for this sitting...I promise to be back on top of this blog, for the one reader it has! lol!!!
