“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”- Dumbledore to Harry, Book 7, "Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows"
If you know me well enough, then you know my secret, I am a HUGE Harry Potter Fan. My love of this boy wizards' amazing 7 book story started last year when my mother in law gave me her collection of Harry Potter Books.. Before then I had seen all the movies, but after watching the 6th movie (the Half blood prince) - it left me a little confused and with a lot of unanswered questions, so I started reading.
The Harry Potter series was the first complete series of books I had EVER read cover to cover,(& in under 3 months!). This for ME is a big accomplishment in itself, because I hate to read. I get bored very easily. After reading the books, I felt like I had accomplished something.
About halfway through the 6th book, I found out that something *magical* (out of this world is more to the point.) was getting ready to happen at Universal Studios in Orlando. A few of our close friends had told us that Universal was going to be building and opening the first and only Harry Potter Theme Park in 2010... Im sure you can imagine my excitement building. For months, and months I had been waiting to see when it would open, how much tickets would cost, etc etc - because being 2 hours away from orlando, why wouldnt I go!?
(my 25th birthday cake made by the lovely Natasha Glover, she is AMAZING!)
Well, months passed, still nothing, but my hubby came home from drill one weekend with an early 25th bday present for me -he gave me an annual pass to universal/islands of adventure. I was thrilled! This meant I could go, but when? Finally after months of waiting Universal made the big announcement, that the grand opening would be June 18th, 2010 (ehem, that's THIS friday by the way...)
(standing outside universal, I found the one and only sign they had up for the park,
and of course I had to get a picture with it.)
Chris & I at Universal, standing under Hogwarts
(this is as close as we could get, since at the time everything had big huge fences around it so we couldnt see in.) -
He doesnt want to admit hes just as excited as I am, but I know he is.
So this Thursday, after months of waiting we are planning on heading to Orlando for 3 days - and on Friday standing amongst probably a few thousand people waiting to get in to experience Hogwarts in all its glory - things that make this even more exciting:
- its in celebration of Chris & I's 4 yr anniversary, and our 25th bdays,
- They announced on the news that yes, all the stars will be there.
- and lastly, I get to act like im 12 again :) (not a hard thing for me to do by the way.)
(be prepared for a 12 page post after I get back, a bazillion facebook updates, and too many photos to count.)
:)
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