Day 15: Saturday 12th July
Today was travelling day from Orlando Airport to Atlanta, the capital city of the state of Georgia in the United States. The flight was really short only an hour and 15 minutes.
Once we got to Atlanta, Miss Hannaford spent lots of time helping me update the blog with all the pictures and videos from our week in Orlando.
Day 16: Sunday 13th July
Today I visited a really important place in Atlanta- the Center for Puppetry Arts! This is the world’s largest museum and education centre dedicated to puppetry!
When you walk into the centre, the first thing you see is Pinnochio’s feet coming through the ceiling!
The Center for Puppetry Arts building used to be a Primary school called Spring Street School and they are about to add a new building to the front of the property so the Center can put all my Muppet friends on display as the current museum is now too small for all the puppets in the collection!
Miss Hannaford tells me that we are going on a special tour of the whole centre in 2 days time!
Day 13: Thursday 10th July 2014
Today was mostly a rest day after all the excitement of the last four days so Miss Hannaford and I decided to explore our hotel more. Our hotel room is in the Toy Story section of the hotel so right outside our hotel room door is R.C.!
Next to our building are huge building blocks that spell out Woody and Buzz’s name as well as a giant Woody and Buzz Lightyear next to the building!
In the middle of the space is Rex and Bo Peep and walking through the door to Andy’s room makes you feel the same size as all the toys!
In the afternoon, Miss Hannaford and I went to visit the area called Downtown Disney which has one the largest toy stores in the area! Miss Hannaford went in to make her own Star Wars droid where you can choose every part of the droid including a novelty hat! Miss Hannaford has decided to name her droid P714.
Nearby to the toystore is a HUGE Lego Store! We spent ages playing with the Lego and Miss Hannaford bought a few Lego things for school and she really liked the really big Lego display of the Maleficient Dragon fighting Prince Philip in Sleeping Beauty!
Day 14: Friday 11th July 2014
Today was Harry Potter Day! We travelled 1.5 hours away from Disney World to visit Universal Studios Florida. Universal studios is 2 theme parks- Universal Studios Florida which has the brand new Diagon Alley attraction and the other park is called Universal’s Islands of Adventure which has the Hogsmeade attraction. While we walked up to the Diagon Alley attraction, we walked through the Simpsons attraction. All the buildings look like Springfield!
Once we walked through Springfield, we could see the entrance to the new Harry Potter area across the water. It looks just like a London street!
When we got closer- Miss Hannaford and I were able to have our photo in front of number 12 Grimmauld Place and in front of the Purple Knight Bus! We then walked past a plain brick wall not realising it was the entrance to Diagon Alley, so we back tracked and discovered that we were walking into a perfect replica of Diagon Alley!
Here are some videos Miss Hannaford took of all the various things you can do in Diagon Alley!
Using a wand to create real Magic:
A View of Diagon Alley:
The Dragon on top of Gringotts Bank roaring:
Puking Pastilles at Weasley Wizard Wheezes:
Meeting the Goblins at Gringotts to exchange Muggle money for Wizard Money:
To get to the Hogsmeade area of Universal Studios- you have to catch the Hogwarts Express! To get to the train, you have to go to platform 9 and 10 at Kingscross Station and slide through the wall to Platform 9 3/4!
Hogwarts express arrives at the platform and you climb aboard for the trip to Hogsmeade!
Once you get off the train- you arrive in Hogsmeade Village complete with the 3 Broomsticks where Miss Hannaford and I had lunch followed by our walk up to Hogwarts Castle!
At the end of the day, it was time to get the Hogwarts Express back to Kingscross but the journey was very different this time!
