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July 15th - here we come!

Harry Potter Land!

So I am really quite excited about the Harry Potter Theme Park that will be coming to universal in about 3 years! I've never been to Florida, but I think I'm going to have to visit when this place opens up.

If you have talked to me about it, or if I have forced you to talk about it with me, you will know that I am pretty excited about the village of Hogsmeade. I want to visit Fred and George's joke shop and actually be able to by some of their merchandise, I want to have a butter beer at The Three Broomsticks, I want to run into strangers at Hog's Head, and I am dying to visit Honey Dukes Sweetshop! I want so badly to be able to purchase the actual candy, and more specifically the blood suckers, I think those sound so interesting.

I was really disappointed while I was in NYC with my friend Pat, and we were visiting one of the candy shops... We stopped in only for a little while to see all the candy and I got excited to see a wall dedicated to Harry Potter. While looking through what they had I almost had a heart attack when I found that they actually carried blood suckers! I screamed in delight... I was so stoked to find them, and really thought they were legit... seeing as I was in New York. And when I held them up to expect closer I found that they were just strawberry flavored!!!! The nerve!!!! What a joke!!!

I just hope that this new Harry Potter Land isn't like that. And that is why I need to be in charge of it.... I don't think I could handle disappointments like this again, especially when I make the effort to visit.

Also I think that in Hogsmeade, the post office should be real... and you should be able to mail stuff to friends, with post marks on it and everything! How cool would that be?

Harry Potter

Across the hotel room from me at the MGM Grand I can see Jeff's copy of the last Harry Potter.

I think one of my favorite things about my recent travels to the east coast is being around so many new different people... watching them and wondering about them. Isn't it strange that I didn't know a single soul out there, where I was, except for the one friend I was visiting? That is so weird!

I love that on the east coast, in the big cities, people use the subways and public transportation. There are so many people out there, and I don't know anything about them, nothing! I don't know where they are going, I don't know what they do, I don't know what they are listening to on their ipods!
I think that is why I loved seeing so many Harry Potter books all over the place this last week and a half. It simply was amazing, every time Pat and I were on a subway or at a crowded T-station we would look around and see Harry Potter being read (it was also cool because Pat had his copy with him too). It made me feel connected to them. Old, young, scary, business... all sorts of people were reading Harry Potter, and experiencing Harry Potter world! It's so cool that I love and visit that same magical world that they do, and on that level we can relate. It's like I would see someone reading and I would think "ah, instant friend".