Happy 'fall back' day everyone - hope y'all enjoyed the extra hour of sleep this morning
This morning was our first without our mother-in-law living in our house. It has been stressful for all involved. The girls have been kind of down over the whole thing so DW and I talked about the clues last night before we went to bed. We decided to go a different way with things today.
We let the girls sleep in and when they got up they came out to the living room where I was watching Top Gear, a show we enjoy watching together. DW had been in the bedroom and while we were relaxing she set things up.
She came out to the living room and told the girls that it looked like one of their animals had gotten into something and made a mess in the hallway and that they'd better come clean it up. When they came to the hallway the clues were spread all up and down it. Some were picture side up and others were face down.
The girls quickly brought them together and started to figure out parts of the pattern. It was a bit too complex so we finally relented and told them the number sequence. They taped them togther in stips of 5 and then flipped them over, arranging to discover the date.
Once that was done DW asked if they knew what this meant. DD2 was totally clueless but DD1 asked if it was a new Harry Potter game or "Harry Potter Land". I said "do you mean 'The Wizarding World of Harry Potter'?" She said yes.
Here's where it gets a bit funny, although DD2 has been approached by two of her teachers about an upcoming vacation she still doesn't get it. And DD1 thinks we're just referring to next year. I go to our bedroom and pull out the packet and give it to them. It is only when they see the departure date that it sinks in.
They got pretty giggly and happy while they looked thru everything and I explained some of the details. We brought up the map of POP Century and let them choose which area we were going to stay at. They chose 50s, which works great for DW and I as we stayed there last time.
And since the jig was up with the Harry Potter clues, I was able to hang up this. It has a picture of the castle at Christmas and Hogwarts during the grand opening:
The girls will get to take turns pulling off LGMHs, one per day. The number amount under each head is worth an equivalent dollar amout that they will have for extra mad money in the parks
As you can see there are only 23 days to go until we roll over to Medford and the Super 8 for our overnight stay before we fly out. Whoohoo!
Still may get a small head start on the masses if we eat fast though. We're really not interested in the characters for that one. The girls are a bit old for Playhouse Disney 
