Sunday, March 17, 2013

A Pirate's Adventure - Phoenix Symphony

I'm so glad we heard about this event (right at the last minute) and snatched a pair of tickets. It was a symphony themed around PIRATES! It was even better than I imagined, with great music PLUS pirate actors causing mischief on stage. The little kid pirates started stealing instruments during a song and then the pirate captain revealed he was an AMAZING singer and did a number with the symphony. Plus, almost every kid there was dressed as a pirate. LOVED IT!





Monday, March 4, 2013

Goodbye!

Time to board the Hogwarts Express and head back to reality!

Dr Seuss

There was an area themed like Dr. Seuss with some fun stuff to look at.

Winner!

Stasik is good at winning penguins with basketballs :)



Mythos

Supposedly the best theme park restaurant. It was a cool atlantis cavern theme and a good value!







Jurassic Park

This is before we got soaked on the front row of the Jurassic Park ride! Thankfully it was warm today.





Beauxbatons and Durmstrang!

They performed then we posed with them :)



Hogsmeade Shops

The wizarding town!











Dragon Ride

The theming of the dragon flight roller coaster was the TriWizard Tournament. Fun roller coaster with an above average line (but not as good as the line for the main HP ride)







Wandseller!

Cool costumes of course on the employees. And an alive book that moves!



Glimpses inside Hogwarts

All the HP fans can recognize these bits I'm sure! There was a neat bit where Ron, Harry, and Hermione are telling us their plan to get us flying and Ron messes up a spell that makes it snow on the line. The snow is bubbles! We're in herbology class there :)











Hog's Head

Grabbed a butterbeer in the Hog's Head pub and sat in the Three Broomsticks to drink it. (They're attached in fake hogsmeade) the drink is a cream soda type fizzy drink with butterscotch foam on top!





Universal Studios

Arriving at Universal! Gotta get to Hogsmeade! :) I drug us straight back to Harry Potter's area without a second glimpse of anything else haha!





Art of Animation

Some poses in front of our resort on our last full day!







Fantasmic!

Great show to finish off our Disney adventure! They have an entire theater just for Fantasmic at Hollywood Studios! Flash back from my youth when I first saw this show at Disneyland :)









Nighttime at Magic Kingdom

A last few pictures before heading out! Brrrrr cold but pretty!