Back home, Maurader's, activity days, art, face masks, HP Symphony, and Liam's track meet

Here is something Adeline drew at art class this past week. 

Evelyn spent her own money on her own Maurader's Map. It was pretty cool and she was VERY excited to get it. 

Adeline opening her birthday card from the padres. 

Finishing HP book #3. 

Making "easter" bread at activity days. 

Her Harry Potter art project from art class. 

Evelyn got some fun face masks at Young Women's so one morning she tried them out. 

We went to the Utah Symphony Family Series Harry Potter music a week after we got back from Harry Potter world so that was really fun.

Adeline trying out the "penguin" mask from Evelyn.

Liam's track meet. 

April has FLOWN by! We have been SO busy doing fun things!
 

Day 6, Univeral Studios and a little more Islands, celebrating Adeline's 9th birthday!

Out of order pic with the crazy upside down part of Volocicoaster. I just realized just now it went over the bridge ha ha. I don't think I even noticed that the three times I rode it. 

So, one of Adeline's requests for her birthday was frozen butterbeer so we had to go back to the Leaky Cauldron. She got a frozen butterbeer and when we told the server it was her birthday, they brought her back a butterbeer waffle for free!

We went to Diagon Alley soon after Universal Opened. It didn't have early entry but we spent most of the day on the US side. Here we are in Diagon Alley. Can't remember what that building behind us is supposed to be now. 

In Fred and George's joke shop. There was a TON more wandering we could have done in Diagon Alley, but I knew my family would want to do the rides and shows so that is what we focused on.

Ate at Mel's Diner for lunch and Adeline told them it was her birthday and she got her strawberry shake for free! WAHOO!

Trying to look like Dumbledore with her whipped cream. She also got this button from guest services and collected a bunch of bracelets on the rides. 

And she also lost a tooth on her birthday. She was living her best life. 

We came back to the islands side for the afternoon to ride Hagrid's and the castle ride and Velocicoaster one more time. They were all great rides. We were sad to leave! 
 

Day 5, Universal Islands of Adventure!

And here is we are FINALLY at the place we were most excited to go to. Harry Potter world! This is Hogsmeade. It was so so so cool. 

Eating breakfast at The Leaky Cauldron!

Trying butterbeer for the first time.

I tried to get some pictures of what this place looked like inside. It was so cool.

Adeline realized and discovered she LOVES LOVES LOVES frozen butterbeer. 

The only sad part was the castle they were repainting or doing something so it was mostly covered up in stuff, but we didn't let that stop us from taking a castle picture!

This was a street performance of the singing frogs. They were awesome.

Waiting for our first trip on the Hogwarts Express to go to Diagon Alley. 

The train was awesome. The window they had done something to both sides to make it feel like you were truly on the hogwarts express. We rode it several times.

And here we are in Diagon Alley. This was super cool too. Very crowded by the time we got there, but it was awesome. Wish we could have spent more time here. And seen the dragon breathe the fire. You would ask an employee and they always never gave an answer. We heard it a couple of times but never actually saw it. 

Adeline in front of one of the spell shops. 

And here is my Universal claim to fame. Velocicoaster. I rode that ride THREE times, including once in the total darkness. It was intense and crazy and very memorable. 

Went back to the Leaky Cauldron for dinner. 

We stayed until the park closed and it was a very long and very busy awesome day. I think everyone loved it. Hagrid's was another ride we loved. 
 

Day 4, Medieval Times

Out of order pic of Liam standing by the night. 

When I was a kid, my parents took our family to Medieval Times. I STILL remember how cool it was years and years later. So when I saw there was a Medieval Times in Orlando, I immediately thought we need to take our kids there. Here we are standing outside the castle. 

We got chosen to cheer on the green knight. This brought back so much nostalgia for me. 

Serious poses. 

Watching the king and queen knight kids. 

There were some cool swords for sale there.

Me standing by the knight! I took some cool videos too, but they don't upload well on a blog, but our knight was definitely the coolest looking! But he got out in the first round of jousting :(. I'm not sure if my kids liked it as much as I did as a kid, but it was still totally a unique experience for sure. 
 

And more pictures. 

We kind of were in the back up in a higher section.

There is the green knight!

It was so fun to cheer for him. We always cheered "green!" over and over. Green section was definitely the best cheerers.