Hello? Anyone there? I'm still here.
Boy, it's been about three weeks since I posted anything. Last I hollered over here, it was to announce a trip we were making to Miami and Orlando, to check some beaches out and to drink Butterbeer. Something came up during the trip that took away my interest in books and reading but I think it's all finally returning back.
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| Poor little thing - it must be tired of its boring job of posing in photos. |
The Universal Studios was even more fun. Some of the rides were downright madness - we did the Hulk roller coaster ride at least two times. It's been a long time since I sat in a real loopy winding crazy roller coaster and so this was a lot of fun. The Harry Potter section in the park - which is the main reason we went there - was really very well put together. I loved how we could walk into Honeydukes and get Chocolate frogs, Bertie Botts' Every Flavor Beans, Peppermint Toads, Fudge Flies, and many many more. It was hard choosing what to get but I eventually picked the Chocolate Frog and got the Helga Hufflepuff card. (Harry Potter readers will get the reference.) Can you guess how very much like an excited schoolgirl I was inside there? The poor darling husband indulged my fancies as well. The main Harry Potter ride wasn't that big a deal for the amount of hype this place gets but I still thought it was quite charming. You could actually pretend that you're sitting on a broom and having the ride of your non-Muggle life. Butterbeer, on the other hand, was just a soda drink mixed with a faint sweet tasty hint of something frothy on top. I thought the drink was consistent with the way it was described in the books, but there was still a part of me that wished it wasn't soda (which I don't drink).
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| Chocolate Frog |
I can't wait to get back to blogging and catching up with whatever I missed.
11 comments:
Your trip sounds like so much fun! I don't think I could have shown such restraint - I would have bought everything in Honeydukes!
Sounds like you had a great break! Love the photo with the gator - do they feel like snakes?
What a great break you had! Hope to see more posts by you in the coming week!
They are leveling a very popular concert venue to put in a Harry Potty world at our Universal and I think it's a little too late for anyone to appreciate it. The books are done. The movies are over and they haven't even broken ground yet. I am already over it.
Sounds like you had a good time though.
Yay! Welcome back! Sounds grand.
And I'm so disappointed about butterbeer.
I have seen some amazing recipes on Pinterest for it.
We should make some!
If the prices weren't jaw-dropping, I would probably have bought more. In the end, I settled for something I can display on my shelves for a good long time.
I guess so - a snake's skin looks smooth to me - this one was more leathery than smooth.
I can't wait to resume blogging.
It was certainly fun. I think the Harry Potter people are trying to target crazy fans like me. While I won't go to Harry Potter parties or follow along with Pottermore religiously, I definitely go gaga over some other aspects of this culture. I don't know how the concert sounds though. I think I will probably give that a pass.
It shouldn't be too hard to make it. I hope you have success trying it!
My husband was quick to point out that I didn't quite understand what you said. That you meant they were tearing down a concert venue whereas I thought they were putting up a Harry Potter concert venue. Gosh - how ridiculous that sounds now. So much for trying to reply to comments via phone - apparently I don't read properly. LOL. Tearing down a concert venue for Harry Potter sounds terrible though!
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