I solemnly swear I am up to no good -- Visit to HP World!

I will admit that I began to love the tales of Harry Potter late in life.  My sister and ESPECIALLY my brother were pretty into them when they were kids, and me being the cool older sister obviously I thought they were lame.  That was my feeling until seeing the first movie.  Sorry, Katie and Cory.  Then, for nearly 8 months I listed to each book on CD during my commutes to work.  

When the Wizarding World of Harry Potter opened at Universal Studios, it was immediately placed on my list of places to visit.  John, Andrew and I went to Orlando last week, and I'm telling you - if you like Harry Potter, you must go.  It's awesome.  It's authentic.  I really feel like I've been to Hogwarts and Hogsmeade.  

Come on down to Hogsmeade, gonna have ourselves a time.

I must say, this was awesome and a let down.  Awesome, because it was butterbeer
and had great flavor.  A disappointment because it lacked booze.  Oh well, haha.

I'm a slytherin and Andrew is a gryffindor! (sp? lol)

I'm more of a lover than a fighter.

Hogsmeade was full of awesome window displays such as this.

OK, so basically I saw this woman awkwardly taking a photo and
instead of getting John and Andrew's attention, I just took a snap.
I'm evil, I know.

Mmmm, Butterbeer snack in The Three Broomsticks.

Inside The Three Broomsticks.

Window display of wands at Ollivander's.  I was going to buy Snape's
wand since he's my fave, but his wand killed Dumbledore, also a fave,
sooooooooooo......

You know you're humming the theme music in your head.

Inside Hogwats the paintings were chatting it up.

The sorting hat was perched inside the castle.

Honeyduke's candy store was sweet (pun intended).

I hope you enjoyed this little sneak peek of Harry Potter World.  It's good stuff, as you can tell.  As I end this blog post, I will leave one of my favorite Harry Potter YouTube videos: