Sci Fi/Fantasy trip! Harry Potter! Tons of pics! June 2010

[Karpkg]

Hi Everybody!!!

My first trip report and I have a ton of pics for you guys!

We finished a combined trip of Star Wars Weekend and the Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

For the Star Wars Weekend portion, I am also posting on the Disney section. Here's the links.

Index

Saturday May 29
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-Magic Kingdom

Sunday May 30
-Hollywood Studios (Star Wars Wknd 2)
-Jedi Training Academy

Monday May 31 Memorial Day
-Universal Studios

Tuesday June 1
-IOA and WWoHP
-Hogsmeade Village
-Ollivander's Wand Shop
-Report on the 3 WWoHP rides
-The Owl Post/Dervish and Banges
-3 Broomsticks
-The Owlery
-Luau at the Royal Pacific Resort

Wednesday June 2
-IOA and WWoHP
-Scooby Doo Character Dinner at Aloha's in Royal Pacific Resort

Thursday June 3
-IOA/US
-Character Breakfast at Confisco Grills

Disney World
-BoardWalk Villas
-Animal Kingdom

Friday June 4 Star Wars Wknd 3 @ Hollywood Studios

Saturday June 5 Star Wars

This is our first trip to Star Wars at Disney and we had lucked out at being at the soft opening for the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the pics! Always posting so check back! It's a visual overload!

 

[CRSTEPHE]

Looking forward to your report! We are going in August so please offer as many tips as you can....

 

[Magpie]

Great reports! I'll definitely be checking back to read more.

You're an excellent photographer!

 

[Karpkg]

Oops! I'm in trouble already. Just opened the Photobucket account a few days ago and loaded it up with pics....and I've reached my freebie 10 Gig bandwidth limit!

I'm talking about not ran out of room...too many people viewing the Harry Potter pics!

While I try and figure out what to do....(don't really want to shell out $$$ for a supposedly free account, I'm broke after this Disney & Harry Potter vacation ) I'll post links directly to the pics and you can view them yourselves.


http://s787.photobucket.com/home/Karpkg/index

Now, I'm stuck trying to do a description of Hogsmeade Village on our 2nd Harry Potter Day....blindly when I was planning to use my pics like a map...hmmmm.....

 

[SPENCER AA]

To karpkg, wow, just the best pictures i have seen in a while. I do believe yall have got it together as a family. Yall have a beautiful family and thanks for sharring all the wonderfull pictures. I just sent your pictures to my two daughters, we have a family trip to disney world november 2010. Thanks spencer aa

 

[mjohnson96]

Great pictures, I am so jealous....it was hard to get some good ones this time with the baby and when I could I had the stupid small camera the salesman talked me into I miss my cannon and have to go back and buy a new one.

 

[Karpkg]

Great reports! I'll definitely be checking back to read more.

You're an excellent photographer!

To karpkg, wow, just the best pictures i have seen in a while. I do believe yall have got it together as a family. Yall have a beautiful family and thanks for sharring all the wonderfull pictures. I just sent your pictures to my two daughters, we have a family trip to disney world november 2010. Thanks spencer aa

Thanks! Nawww, I just take a ton of pics, good and bad! A bit self-conscious when I'm taking so many pics of everything and anything...but when I get home and see them and relive the memories..I'm happy as a clam.

Great pictures, I am so jealous....it was hard to get some good ones this time with the baby and when I could I had the stupid small camera the salesman talked me into I miss my cannon and have to go back and buy a new one.

I have got to learn how to use all of these buttons on my Canon. I have got to be using the worst settings sometimes. Because of the rain and indoor/night situations, I need to figure out how to get the blurriness out. Grrrr!

 

[reelmom]

Great report and fantastic pictures. We have never read the Harry Potter books nor have we seen the movies. We are going to Universal/IOA in April, so your report is really helpful.

 

[Karpkg]

Great report and fantastic pictures. We have never read the Harry Potter books nor have we seen the movies. We are going to Universal/IOA in April, so your report is really helpful.

Thanks!

Definitely rent at least the first movie to get to to know the characters; then you'll realize why an entire "world" was built around the Harry Potter movies!

 

[reelmom]

Thanks!

Definitely rent at least the first movie to get to to know the characters; then you'll realize why an entire "world" was built around the Harry Potter movies!

We watched the first one last night. It was so good. The boys really enjoyed it and are looking forward to watching the second one. It was neat to see the places in the movie that I have seen pictures of on the DIS. I am super excited about going now. We are going to SeaWorld for a few days in November. I am already trying to figure out how we can go to Universal for a few days while we are down there. I don't want to wait until April.