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My husband would love to go to Harry Potter World. It's on our list of things to do someday! I wasn't aware that WDW in Florida still had the Electric Light Parade. (It's been gone from CA Disney properties for a couple of years now.) It's my FAVORITE part of Disney!
Donna
yeah the parade was amazing. I probably took 80 photos of a 20 minute parade.
If you go to Islands of Adventures you need to get there early (before they open) and go quickly to the Harry Potter World section because it gets very busy all day. We were able to ride all the rides in a half hour period when we first got to HPW, but after 11am or so the lines were crazy. thanks for reading our thread
Love the post so far, and all of the pics. I have "Baroque Hoedown" (the song played during that parade) as my ringtone, lol. Looking forward to seeing more!
We carried around a spot GPS with us that kept track, every 10 minutes, where we were. I'm going to try to post a few of those maps.
I can't figure out how to actually see the map on a post so I'll post links.
First one is Harrisburg, PA (home) to Boston
http://www.spotadventures.com/trip/view?trip_id=255810
Here is PA to Fort Myers, FL
http://www.spotadventures.com/trip/view?trip_id=259526
You can zoom in on the red line and see specific streets we visited (as long as we remembered to turn the gps on) We did not figure out the best way to use Spot GPS until later in the trip so the way points are a little off at some parts.
Thanks for the comments
anybody know how to change the thread title? It's kind of misleading at this point
Mod noteTitle has now been changed.
Day 38, 39, 40, and 41
This is going to be more a photo update. We drove to Mobile after Universal Studios and spent 3 hanging with our new couch surfing friend Kenneth. He shared with us his own home brewed beer, lots of it, and great conversation. I still text back and forth with Kenneth every once in a while. Day 41 was spent in New Orleans drinking too much and eating too much.
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entering Alabama sign
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A sea horse at the Mobile, AL Sea Lab
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Mobile Bay
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Mobile city
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An old mansion we toured
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Megan thought that the dude on the beer bottle looked like me
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Another state sign
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Cafe Du Monde beignets. (I know something is spelled wrong here)
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Some guy playing outside the cafe
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A Cathedral
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Megan dipping a toe in the Mississippi
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French Quarter
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New Orleans Cemetery
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French Quarter
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Drinking a Hurricane at Pat O'Briens
Those photos would tend to support the notion that you had way too much fun on your trip!
It really was a great time. If anybody has any questions about the places we visited I'll do my best to answer them.
Here is our map from Disney to Texas:
http://www.spotadventures.com/trip/view?trip_id=263301
Days 42-50
My long time friend Jeremy and his wife Ashley were our amazing tour guides in Texas. We crashed at their house and they showed us all the best spots in the San Antonio area. We spent the week like real Texans.
Note: Megan did not eat any of the meat shown, Tony is the meat eater. We did find a place in San Antonio that had a decent vegan menu, it was also a car wash and laundry mat.
Baton Rouge-San Antonio was one of the longest drives of the trip up until that point, and it felt like it. We drove on 10 most of the time, we did drive for a few minutes through Houston. Austin, TX is where we got our first and only ticket on the trip: a $50 parking ticket.
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Entering Texas sign
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First thing we do in Texas: ride horses and pretend to be cowboys
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Jeremy grilling us a Texas dinner
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Very excited to see one of our favorite musicians Todd Snider from the front row
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Todd barefoot
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Todd with Robert Earl Keene (who we never heard of, but is huge in Texas)
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Our 17 pound brisket
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Jeremy by his smoker with our brisket inside
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Kevin Fowler concert on July 4th
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We went tubing on the Guadalupe river. Lot's of drinking and scraping my ass on that 6 hour trip
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We used a disposable camera that got very wet on the trip and the photos came out looking very cool
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1 of the 7 missions we visited in San Antonio
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Outside the Alamo with our Bill's refill cups
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On a guided boat ride on the river walk
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Capitol building in Austin. We toured the whole thing, it was huge and beautiful
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Where the governor, Rick Perry, says stuff
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Austin is live music and weird
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very cool local blues band we heard from the street
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If you go to Austin you have to see the bats fly at sunset
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Stevie Ray Vaughn statue (he's the man)
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Austin skyline
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Cathedral of Junk. This local man has built a giant tower of trash in his backyard and people can come see it. google it
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Austin also has tons of food carts, even vegan for Megan, and plenty of greasy mexican food for Tony
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We saw Princess Bride in a quote along movie at the drafthouse. If you've never been there and you love movies you need to check this place out.
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Megan drinking a Margarita at the Jackalope bar
We had a great time in Texas and Austin is one of those places where we want to spend another week.
Thanks for reading