don't be too jealous, but after we finished our finals we had six days without any active work to do. so we decided to take a little trip down to florida to visit the world's greatest theme park. no, not disney world. the new wizarding world of harry potter. i'll admit i was skeptical about harry potter world--but i thought that we absolutely needed to make it there while living in north carolina. and this weekend seemed like the one where we would have the most time for the foreseeable future . . . all in all, we went on a pretty last-minute drive down to orlando!
we drove down on wednesday, went to universal studios (a.k.a. HP world) on thursday and epcot on friday, and then drove back on saturday to take off to utah on monday. i'll just tell you--harry potter world was excellent. i felt like i was really in hogsmeade and hogwarts--drinking butterbeer, visiting the three broomsticks, buying stuff at zonkos and honeydukes and ollivanders, wandering through hogwarts castle (and going on the three HP roller coasters). for a harry potterophile like myself, it was pretty dang great.
oh yeah, and epcot was pretty good too.
wanna see some pictures?
tommy greeting hagrid's hut.
two proud (but cheap) gryffindors. we took pictures of the robes, but didn't buy them. (they were $100 each!)
voldemort's wand--look out!
we ate at the rainforest cafe that night as well.
andddd, EPCOT!
although we had to miss my dear cousins bennett and jazz's wedding (because of flights being purchased, etc.) and i would have rather been celebrating with family, this was a pretty good substitute.
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