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So guess who's en route to Harry Potter World right now? ME!! :D
My friend and I are roadtripping to Florida for a few days before heading back to our schools. Because we can, that's why. We drove for fifteen hours today and now we're crashing in a currently-empty friends' house in Kansas. (They have an elevator. In their house.)
So yeah. I officially hate driving through Nebraska, it's so flat and it smells of ammonia.
Also, HARRY POTTAH!!!! *flails*
Oooooh, lucky you and friend! Have a safe trip.
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submitted by TNÖ, age 19, Deep Space
(January 6, 2013 - 10:53 pm)
(January 6, 2013 - 10:53 pm)
Good Luck holding out through the road trip. I'm going to Stanford today, which is only about three hours away, but I really do not want to sit through all that driving. Be sure you brought a deck of cards, TNO!
(January 7, 2013 - 9:24 am)
I mostly slept when I wasn't driving, really. But we just got to Orlando and we're in our condo now.
Also, it is hot and humid and icky here. IT IS JANUARY. So I can say definitively that I wouldn't be able to handle living in Florida, at all, by any stretch of the imagination. Um, yay?
TOMORROW. HARRY POTTER. WEEEEEE!!
(Buy ALL the Slytherin merchandise!)
Have fun, TNÖ, and keep us posted. I'm glad you arrived safely.
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(January 8, 2013 - 4:46 pm)
@TNO
How warm is it? I think that will warm me up!
We have coldish temperatures here and it gets colder at night.
(January 8, 2013 - 6:26 pm)
Harry Potter World! Ooooh, the shiny. I've never been there, but I've heard it's amazing. Tell us what it's like!
On another note, is driving through Nebraska anything like a South Dakota all-nighter? My family drove to Colorado a few years back, and on the return trip, we drove through SD the entire night. It was cool. And occasionally smelled like cows.
Yava says eyfc. I... am not in the mood to translate.
--L
(January 8, 2013 - 10:12 pm)
WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU ARE SO LUCKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I want to go so bad, but I'm hoping that they open the one in Southern Califorinia sooner. It would be much easier to get there, because I live in California, not Florida.
(January 8, 2013 - 10:26 pm)
Have fun!
I went there a couple years ago, and really liked it, although my mom had absolutely no idea what was going on.
(January 9, 2013 - 11:19 am)
Long car rides? *shudders*
Have fun, TNÖ!
(January 9, 2013 - 9:59 pm)
What do you have against oppurtunities that force you to read for eight hours straight?
(January 10, 2013 - 9:01 am)
I'm always stuck in the wayback with the luggage. Do you know how uncomfortable that is? I always end up with an injured back.
(January 12, 2013 - 5:59 pm)
I agree with Gollum! I would read in the car all the time, except for half of it, I nearly puke my guts out.
(January 12, 2013 - 7:05 pm)
SO LUCKY!!!! I've been wanting to go FOREVER!!!!! AAAHHH!!!! Also, I don't mind long car trips so much, mostly because my mom reads aloud, and the rest of the time it give me quiet time to let me sink into the deepest levels of my imagination and go wherever I please!
Cappie says yknb.
(January 10, 2013 - 3:27 pm)
So now I'm in an airport in Baltimore waiting to fly back to Cornell which means I have Internet access for the first time since early Friday morning (13 hour drive and then my friend's Maryland apartment which she JUST moved into and has no Internet access as of yet). Yay!
Harry Potter was awesome. For sure. Except I spent WAYY TOO MUCH money D: We went for two days and got early admit the second one so the lines weren't too bad, Hannah went to Ollivader's FOUR TIMES so she could be the one to reenact the wand choosing, the Hogwarts ride was cool for narrative reasons and the other two were forgettable (I don't experience an adrenaline rush on roller coasters and thus find them a bit boring, but the Hogwarts one had this pseudo-virtual reality thing going on, which was pretty cool).
Also, I lost my glasses the first day (and almost broke my wrist in the process). They still haven't found them. Boo. So I'm unhealthily wearing contacts all day every day now, which I'm not supposed to do because my eyes react badly to being suffocated. C'est la vie?
On a much happier unplanned note, we saw Mary Poppins! It was awesome! Our Mary was like two years older than me which was a little weird but she was super fantastic and we saw her at the stage door afterwards and she was all awkward and adorable because this was her first big non-college role. And she signed a little girl's cast as "Mary Poppins." So she was pretty much awesome and has been added to my list of people my age whom I unrepentantly fangirl (along with 90% of the Cornell theatre department). Because she's 23 and caking MARY POPPINS. Also, she was the most Time Lord-y Marys I've ever seen or heard and it was amazing and sad and her interactions with Bert were perfection itself. *deep breath* Also, it was Hannah's first stage door and she had no idea what was going on and it was kind of hilarious. Also, I hadn't realized that Natasha Katz was the lighting designer and I had a nerdy squeefest when I saw her name in the playbill while explaining to Hannah that she hadn't updated her bio in about four years. And it was then that I realized just how OBVIOUS a theatre student I am. Also! We saw the stage manager at the stage door! She didn't really talk to us, mostly just scowled and smoked and talked on her phone, but we saw her nevertheless! She borrowed my playbill to look up a number!!
And once more, with feeling: MARYYY POPPIIIIIIIIIIIIINS!!!
Um... That's all.
(January 13, 2013 - 8:46 am)
Okay, first SO COOL!!!! Harry Potter world, Mary Poppins! EEEKKKK! Secondly, SERIOUSLY?!?!? Rollar Coasters don't effect you? They scare the livin' daylights outa me!!!!! I can't ride them very well without freaking out and hyperventilating (is that spelled right?) at the top of every hill. Also, don't feel too bad about spending too much money. In my opinion, times like that are when you relax a bit, making memories! I spent quite a bit of money when my family went to Prince Edward Island Canada. Yes, we went soley for Lucy Maud Montgomery and Anne of Green Gables. So, these are things you'll hold onto into adulthood, (even if you are practically an adult), and even if it's a bunch of wizarding stuff! Like I said, making memories!
Well said, Blonde Heroine. Memories are to be treasured.
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(January 15, 2013 - 10:54 pm)
Nope, roller coasters don't do anything for me. I get very minor I-am-falling stomach swoopings, but no accompanying emotional and/or adrenaline response, so, as I say, I find them a bit dull and with unnecessarily long lines. Although, as I say, the Hogwarts one was really cool with the whole 3d-virtual-reality/PUPPETS thing it had going on...
As to the money thing: Well, I like to pretend to be a responsible adult who manages her finances in a sensible manner. Except I'm really really bad at it. Getting better, but still bad. Although I did manage to stay within my budget for the trip, even taking into account the unexpected 60$ I spent at Mary Poppins and the ridiculous, ridiculous 50$ 12 oz steak (D:) I had the first night*... so that's good.
Also, my philosophy is that if a show can reasonably be afforded, then it is always worth it. Especially musicals. *wise nod*
*That was the cheapest thing on the menu, as a matter of fact. But it was ridiculously good. And then we had THE BEST key lime pie I have ever tasted ever. ...We mostly ate peanut butter sandwiches and grapes after that. College diets FTW?
(January 16, 2013 - 7:05 pm)
BTW, I meant to ask, do they still have the Dueling Dragons rollar coaster? I'd heard they'd closed it.
(January 17, 2013 - 7:32 pm)