Talk about a weekend full of all things Harry Potter !!! We had a great time this past weekend. It all started off on Friday night, Tiffany tipped us off about an awesome harry potter festival leading up to the release of the final Harry Potter book, The Deathly Hallows, at midnight. It was a bit of a drive to get to the small town hosting it, but it was worth it. They blocked off 3 block downtown and turned all of their shops into different stores from Diagon Alley, Hogsmeade, King's Cross platform 9 & 3/4, Hogwarts, and the even had a Knight bus roaming the streets. My favorite was the sweet 
shop where us muggles all got to taste butterbeer, dragon snot, blood pops, chocolate frogs, bertie botts every flavour beans, and more. The butterbeer was my favorite. People got all dressed up as their favorite characters; my favorites were Hagrid and Dobby. If they were having a costume contest those two would have won for sure. The kids all got to play a ton of fun games where they had to answer trivia questions, perform spells, get sorted, and more. riley's favorite challenge was a little game called "pin the tail on dudders." she did so good that the nice ladies running the booth gave her a great prize of a harry potter party box filled with all kinds of goodies: suckers, harry potter glasses, stickers, a key chain, and more. abbi and elli also won a ton of great prizes, and can you believe it was all free?? we had to pay for food and some trinkets of course, but the festival, the knight bus, and all of the game booths and prizes were free! Some cooler stores were more expensive though, such as ollivander's wand makers and the pet shop, where we bought riley her own little Hedwig. We had to buy her an owl of her own 
because they actually had real owls there as well and she was just so excited to see them. Anyway we had a blast and we got home just in time to put riley to sleep, relax for a bit, and then tiffany, gabe, elli, and i headed off to the midnight ball at border's to pick up our books. it was insane and that is a whole other blog, but needless to say we ended up leaving border's at 1am for wal-mart where we got our books with a free poster, a free bookmark, no muss, and no fuss!! i was never a big wal-mart girl, but after that night i have been converted. of course i devoured the final book, it was amazing!! i laughed and cried and cheered, as i am sure all potter fans did. but alas, you will find no spoilers here . . . david has been sucked in and is currently reading book 5, so i don't want to ruin anything for him. riley was so sick of me reading on saturday that when i was only a few chapters aw
ay from being done, she started in with a repetitive round of "book go bye bye, book go bye bye." So I bribed her with cookies and Boog, and went about my merry way. I am sad for the series to be over and will miss the excitement of awaiting the next book, but at least there are still two movies to go. In the meantime I am tempted to bide my time and start back again 
with the "The boy wh
o lived." Mischief Managed!!
shop where us muggles all got to taste butterbeer, dragon snot, blood pops, chocolate frogs, bertie botts every flavour beans, and more. The butterbeer was my favorite. People got all dressed up as their favorite characters; my favorites were Hagrid and Dobby. If they were having a costume contest those two would have won for sure. The kids all got to play a ton of fun games where they had to answer trivia questions, perform spells, get sorted, and more. riley's favorite challenge was a little game called "pin the tail on dudders." she did so good that the nice ladies running the booth gave her a great prize of a harry potter party box filled with all kinds of goodies: suckers, harry potter glasses, stickers, a key chain, and more. abbi and elli also won a ton of great prizes, and can you believe it was all free?? we had to pay for food and some trinkets of course, but the festival, the knight bus, and all of the game booths and prizes were free! Some cooler stores were more expensive though, such as ollivander's wand makers and the pet shop, where we bought riley her own little Hedwig. We had to buy her an owl of her own 
because they actually had real owls there as well and she was just so excited to see them. Anyway we had a blast and we got home just in time to put riley to sleep, relax for a bit, and then tiffany, gabe, elli, and i headed off to the midnight ball at border's to pick up our books. it was insane and that is a whole other blog, but needless to say we ended up leaving border's at 1am for wal-mart where we got our books with a free poster, a free bookmark, no muss, and no fuss!! i was never a big wal-mart girl, but after that night i have been converted. of course i devoured the final book, it was amazing!! i laughed and cried and cheered, as i am sure all potter fans did. but alas, you will find no spoilers here . . . david has been sucked in and is currently reading book 5, so i don't want to ruin anything for him. riley was so sick of me reading on saturday that when i was only a few chapters aw
ay from being done, she started in with a repetitive round of "book go bye bye, book go bye bye." So I bribed her with cookies and Boog, and went about my merry way. I am sad for the series to be over and will miss the excitement of awaiting the next book, but at least there are still two movies to go. In the meantime I am tempted to bide my time and start back again 
with the "The boy wh
o lived." Mischief Managed!!
2 comments:
How Cool! Sounds like a blast!
Love it, love it, love it! Wish I could have joined at what looks like was an amazing festival. Can't wait to hear what David thinks about book 5 and will look forward to catching up with you more about the book...after read a 2nd time! miss you much.
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