Platform 9 3/4 … tonight … don’t be late

August 30th, 2008

Our Harry Potter weekend begins soon, and I’m so excited! I thought there for a bit that we weren’t going to be able to do it this weekend. I’ve had a horrible sore throat this week and finally went to the doctor yesterday. Three doses of Cipro later, I’m feeling sluggish but not in pain.

I’ve got everything planned - though I’ve still got tons to do today - for our big Harry Potter day tomorrow. We’re doing Downtown Disney tonight when we meet to get Hayden and Hannah (chocolate pretzels at Goofy’s Candy Co.!!), and then it’s HP all day tomorrow.

Wizards Griff and Hayden are both reading the fourth book now, and so we’ve got the small tent set up in the front room (you know, like at the big Quiddich World Cup) for the kids to play in through the day. Wizards Griff and Eliza have already informed me it’s a kids’ only tent. Geez, I’m disappointed since it’s tiny and hot!

We’re starting tomorrow morning with Troll Bites (Jimmy Dean sausage balls) and Herbology Fruit (cool shaped fruit cut up) for breakfast.

Lunch is looking like Bat Wings (chicken wings) and Jelly Slugs (jello with gummy worms). Probably a little leftover herbology fruit.

I’ve got some groovy activities for the afternoon while we drink our chilled Butterbeer (cream soda with butterscotch syrup) and suck on some Acid Pops (sour suckers rolled in Pop Rocks) and snack on some Chocolate Cockroaches (thin pretzel sticks crushed and drenched in chocolate) …

  • If you could Apparate, where would you go and why?
  • Draw your own Boggart (the thing that scares you the most).
  • Draw your own Patronus.
  • Draw your own Crest.
  • I’m working on figuring out how to make Rememberalls. We’ll stop by the Michael’s on our way to DD tonight & pick up the necessary materials.

Then, for dinner, Mike’s smoking Turkey Legs.  We’re having Mrs. Weasley’s Famous Roasted Wild Boar (apparently, turkey legs aren’t so easy to come by. Who knew?) with Smoked Herbology Mix (whatever fresh veggies the market has today).

And some Magic Wand breadsticks. And we’re having Dragon Dung Fertilizer (dirt cake with gummy worms) for dessert while we watch the first movie.

Whew. I’m all excited!! Now, I got all of the recipes from some really groovy sites, and then I dumbed them down so that they were super easy for me to make. I’m hoping the kids have as much fun with it as I have had planning it. And I’m hoping it goes as well as the last fun day I planned for all of us.

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