Saturday, January 21, 2012

Dinner times two

I made this tonight:

This is the second time in a week that I have made it. This time I remembered the fried onion piece for the top. It was good last week but this addition made it amazing!

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Harry Potter

I am a Disney girl through and through. 
I do not like Universal. 
I have been before and my favorite ride was Dr. Suess land (hey I am a teacher) and then the Shrek ride was pretty awesome too..well that was 4 or 5 years ago and I thought well lets give it another chance. Same feeling as before BUT I will say that the Wizarding World of Harry Potter literally MADE Universal/Islands of Adventure. It was awesome, amazing and so real life. Well as real life as a movie can get :)

I love to read. I have read all the Harry Potter books. Cody is a movie guru and has loved all the movies. As a matter of fact we watched the 7th one part 2 on Monday night! I literally felt on set or in the book (however you want to look at it). But back to the point with many pictures coming your way.
You can see Hogwarts in the distance.

As always, I loved Suess landing. It is so cool! We hung out here for awhile because Harry Potter was already full. You had to get a ticket (free) to go at a later time. It was only an hour and a half delay but boy were we ready to go in!


Cody and I got to the gate a few minutes early and got some pictures.


We waited in line for almost 2 hours to take the tour of the castle which includes a ride. The picture that we bought from the ride is included at the end of this...


Love both of these..

Afterwards, we went to try butter beer. We couldn't decide which one we wanted so we shared. After trying both, I liked both but I loved the frozen version. It tastes a lot like cream soda but more butterscotch.  Cody liked the frozen better also :)


After enjoying "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter", we were back to Islands of Adventure.

Cody rode the hulk. I cheered him on from the sidelines and got pictures. I am not a fan of roller coasters but rode some while in Orlando. I refused gently turned down my husband about getting on this one. It went upside down.. NO WAY! :)

On the way out, Cody found a wand. In Hogsmeade (back to Harry Potter), the line was over 40 people to get a wand. Then the shop that sold them (based on the movie) had over an hours wait just to get in..so Cody said we didn't have to wait but oh my goodness was he excited to find a wand at the front of the park. He directed traffic with it all the way back to disney :)

We went back to the hotel and got rested up, changed and were off to dinner. We enjoyed a nice, romantic dinner at Narcoossee's at the Grand Floridian. Our food (we both got same thing) is shown in the last picture plus we both got desert. BTW side note about disney. If you go and stay on property, get the dining plan. Our bill at Narcoossee's took two of our table dining points each BUT our actual bill was almost $200 and boy was it the best meal we ever ate. We definitely have never ate like that and won't again anytime soon but the dining plan is the WAY to go when you are at disney. We enjoyed many great (average price haha) meals at Disney at no cost to us but the tip. Yes we payed for the plan and it averaged out to be a lot cheaper but don't ask me those numbers cause I don't know them haha

Back to dinner...as we were walking up to Narcoossee's (I hope I am spelling that correctly), the fireworks started going off at Magic Kingdom. We were able to watch them over the lake and got a great show!

A few of our cell pictures from our Harry Potter day :)

Only one day left to bore you with!

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Pinterest

Found some more great recipes! These are a taco bake and a cauliflower. The cauliflower is zero weight watcher points. I am not sure I love it but it's not bad

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

R&R day

Day 3 was an easy going day for our honeymoon. We started our morning at Chef Mickey's. Cody said it was a sophisticated petting zoo between all the kids screaming and the characters. He ended up loving it as much as some of the kids. The breakfast buffet is yummy anyway but its always a plus to get to meet Minnie, Mickey, Goofy, Pluto and Donald :)


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1-This is where we ate on Day 4 (Friday) 
2, 3, 4, 5, and 6-riding the boat around the lake in front of magic kingdom, Grand Floridian, Polynesian, and Contemporary resort. Grand Floridian is where we are on Friday night and The Contemporary is where Chef Mickeys
7, 8 and 9 are just fun pictures we took :)


That afternoon, Cody and I went back to Downtown Disney. We met my Great Aunt and Uncle, Great Grandma and cousin/her husband for a great dinner at Wolfgang.

Monday, January 16, 2012

Epcot

I finally am sharing our Day 2: Epcot pictures from two weeks ago :)

We waited on the bus to take to the parks..








We went in to see the President's hall in USA and got a certificate and Cody and I got to talk to Minnie and Mickey with their congrats on our wedding :)



Loved getting all the princess signatures :)
Carson has a book from us and we have one!

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Crazy

This has been a crazy week! I started my last class for my masters. I cooked two great meals-if you know me it's a stretch for me to cook one good one a week but according to Cody I made two great ones! My grandparents came in Friday and are staying through Tuesday. They wanted to come see our new house and spend the weekend with us. I am actually just pulling up to their hotel to go enjoy breakfast at ihop so forgive me for the fact I haven't posted in four days. I honestly forgot in the middle of the craziness.. I have a ton to share but it shall wait another day...or two...

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Pictures

I am behind on sharing the rest of our honeymoon pictures but I am half asleep as I type. I started my last class tonight for my masters. It will be amazing to graduate in may :)

One tree hill is on and revenge will be dvr'd cause this girl is going to bed with this handsome man for some good quality zzzzzz's haha