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Success.

This month’s wine writing challenge, Success, was selected by my BFF (that would be blogger friend forever), Loie of CheapWineCurious, as a result of winning last month’s challenge. I would like to interject that the BFF title was self-appointed by me.  I’m sure Loie is currently reaching for her phone to send my information to all … Continue reading Success.

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Universal Studios

Believe or not, there are other things to do in Universal Studios other than Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade/Hogwarts.  So after taking the Hogwarts Express back to London, we wandered around other parts of the park. As timing would have it, we found ourselves a spot on the curb just in time for the afternoon parade. After … Continue reading Universal Studios

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Hogsmeade

After we left Hogwarts we wound our way back down to the village of Hogsmeade.  A quaint little village, where there is snow on the buildings all year round. Our first stop was to wet our whistles with some delicious butter beer. And it was delicious (as it tastes like butterscotch, which I adore!), but … Continue reading Hogsmeade

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Hogwarts

You gotta hand it to Universal, they know how to sucker you in create a whole experience.  Of course, in order to do that you need a pass to both of their parks–but it is TOTALLY worth it (if you’re a Harry Potter fan–and by fan I mean borderline obsessed…and by borderline, I just mean obsessed) … Continue reading Hogwarts

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Happy Birthday Texas!

We interrupt our regularly scheduled posts about my Fabulous Not Forty Birthday trips to wish Texans everywhere a Happy Independence Day!  On this day in 1836, Texas declared its independence from Mexico. The Texas Declaration was written in less than a day during (although not at) the battle of The Alamo, drew a lot of influence from the … Continue reading Happy Birthday Texas!