The rest of Saturday we just let the boys relax and Dennis and Amy were exhausted, naturally, from working then driving 24 hours straight - with a puking kid half the way. They love AW so much and for the first time AW is running away from his soccer ball because they want to play with it and AW more than he does. Never thought I'd see the day! Then we watched the first 2 Harry Potters, because I haven't seen any of them and they were appalled.
Sunday we headed over to New Smyrna beach and had a blast! We built the most awesome sand castle and luckily the weather was wonderful and didn't rain on us. The boys (the big ones and little ones) wanted to go bowling on Sunday night but the girls we're exhausted and knew Monday was going to be along day at Universal. Cameron said he wanted Kyle to pay for bowling, "So Angela can save her money and not have to spend it." Too cute.
Monday was Harry Potter day! I woke up Christian and Cameron and asked them if they were excited and Christian said, "yeah! who wouldn't be?" haha. Once we all had breakfast, some coffee, put our sunscreen on and loaded the back packs with food, capri suns, medicine, extra clothes, and water, we were ready to go. Experiencing Universal with kids is a completely different experience. From 9 AM to 5 PM we did Harry Potter and Jurassic Park at Islands of Adventure( maybe 1/8th of the park). But we had so much fun and nothing beats the look on their faces when they saw HP. Kyle and I stood in the line to get into HP while they rode the Spiderman ride. Not surprisingly, recently diagnosed with car-sickness-Christian - wasn't a big fan of the 3-d moving cart spiderman ride! It was about an hour wait to get into HP. Once we were in the lines continued to grow. We were able to ride the new Forbidden Journey ride which is really cool and different than any other ride I've ever been on. We waited about 50 minutes for that ride too. While I was waiting in the child swap room with Cameron some girl puked in the trash can right next to us. That wasn't so fun. But they were playing the 1st HP in the room so at least we got to watch some of that.
The lines for the Olivanders wand shop and the Dervish and Banges stores were hours long. They really wanted to get a wand, but they are going back on Wednesday and Friday so Dennis promised they would go then! We bought some butterbeer and luckily didn't have to wait for it, but it was really good and not too expensive . We bought 4 drinks for $10.00, however if you want it in the souvenir cup it's $10.00 for each.
Here with our with our butter beer mustaches! and Cameron is holding his chocolate frog in the bag (in his mouth).
It was definitely an exhausting day, but worth it! Other than someone stealing my camera from my bag it was a wonderful day. Today when I left for work Christian told me I would have the "cleanest and sparkelest house" when I got home! I told him he was the best best house guest we have ever had. And Amy said once he was down cleaning my house he said, "Now this is a vacation." Just the cutest and sweetest things. I wish they never had to leave. Not to mention, my husband is really cute with kids ;-)
They are visiting one of the world's largest McDonald's today and then are meeting me at my work when I get off. Then we'll probably watch a couple more HP movies tonight!
Hope everyone is having a wonderful week and getting ready for the 4th of July!
Love,
A and K
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