Awwww
Omg!! How cool!!! Was that random, or planned??
We knew she was there for the big Harry Potter celebration thing, but we had decided to NOT wait in line for any part of the festivities. We had booked before it was announced, and the kiddo still isn't any sort of fun when waiting in long LONG lines, and we're not huge fan-type-people, so we were just going about our business.
We had, however, watched the podcast thing through UniversalOrlando back at the room the day before, and they included Ms Lynch, Matthew Lewis (Neville, yummy yum, how attractive did he turn out to be?), and either James or Oliver (Weasley twins). So we knew what she looks like as a 20-something now.
The next day we were enjoying butterbeers behind the Three Broomsticks; I was looking towards the archway to enter/exit the area because there's an ATM themed like it's at Gringott's, and I needed to get cash. DS was looking around, and he started saying "it's her...her, it's her". DH picked up on it quicker, and saw that it was Ms Lynch walking with a TM and an older gentleman*. She was taking a couple pictures with some guests. We worked it out that DS did want to meet her, and DH asked if a picture could be taken as it looked like she was leaving. She was incredibly gracious (I think she was on her way to get food, honestly) and said of course. I stood next to her, she put her arm around my back and we told her that we enjoyed her character (should have said her performance as that character! but we were tongue-tied), she said thank you, we took a picture, and thanked her. And off she went.
A day or so later I was outside in the driveway to the Portofino (getting a cab or something) and I saw her and some TMs and the older gentleman again. She was leaving the hotel and getting into a large black van. So obviously she was staying at "our" hotel, which we felt was tremendously cool.
*we got the strong feeling that he was her grandfather or some other relative...which seems neat, to travel with someone who will really watch over you....
Agreed on the plague!!! UGH! I hope you are feeling better. We are better...but not 100% yet.
We should meet sometime for sure! Maybe even before the half....since we live all of 30 to 60 minutes from each other. Anabella is where we are booked for the DL half! I am so excited.
Definitely!
I FINALLY finally got my sense of taste and smell back. Finally! It is SO hard (and really very depressing) to eat for calories and texture. I admit I cried a teensy bit once or twice when I couldn't even smell or taste garlic... I was actually scared the sense would never come back.
On the up-side...in the first two weeks of our trip my lack of appetite caused me to lose what Robert estimates as about 10 lbs. Which would have been only 10 lbs above the lowest weight WW would allow me. My small pants were hanging on me when we picked him up at the airport. Once I could eat again, and in the last few days of the trip when taste really started to come back AND I felt like I could have some brewskies, the subsequent gain merely took me up to my starting point, and the last 2 days, I think, brought me up a bit more. Have already lost 2 pounds of water overnight from the flight.
That's a definite up-side to no appetite and then no sense of taste or smell.
But one ear still hurts a bit. Eamon is still SUPER-stuffy (it was gone and then it came back, so I wonder if he got something ELSE once he finally felt up to the kid's club on the cruise) and one ear hurts, and he's really emotional. There's a definitely thought of heading to a healthcare professional! Still not sure what they can do for us, but at a certain point you have to say "this has gone on too long, I at least have to SEE what's going on".
Robert got symptoms on day 4 of the cruise and he's already finished with it for the last 2 days. He is SUCH a stinker. And when I say symptoms, I mean that for each thing that lasted 4 days for us it lasted an hour or two for him. I'm so happy for him that he has such an immune system, and I'm happy I didn't really have to be a caregiver for him as I was for myself and for Eamon (still so exhausted), but it's truly just SO annoying. Especially when he complains. 2 hours of that symptom for you vs 2 weeks for us, dude. Suck it up.
For one of the first times ever....I'm glad to be HOME. Except I find that we still have holiday stuff out. And up. Guess we gotta get to that, eh?
