We’re not coming home, we’re staying in Harry Potter’s Wizarding World because it is freaking awesome!!! Waw, what an experience! We both agree it is the best attraction here (Scotty thinks it’s the best place on Earth…) It was pouring with rain when we got there which just made it even more realistic and even though we were drenched we couldn’t stop smiling. Seriously you have to see it for yourself to understand our excitement :) The Harry Potter ride was so good we went on it 3 times, we had a Butterbeer and lunch in the Three Broomsticks which was really tasty. They had the shops from the books/films and in the wand shop, Ollivanders, a wand chose Scotty; Dumbledore’s wand and he had to buy it :) We felt like we were in the ... read more

Waw, what a day! Universal was awesome and the weather stayed completely dry for us and boiling hot! :) There were so many cool rides and we went on all of them (even the big rollercoaster, Rip Ride Rockit - that was amazing and we could choose our own soundtrack!) We went on a few more than once – we were like big kids! Our favourites were Despicable Me (Phil’s home) The Mummy and Men in Black (Annie beat Scott twice and shot more aliens than him). You will see in the pictures that we bought Phil a new friend :) his name is Stewart (we didn’t name him it’s what he’s called). We are not ashamed to admit that we went on the Despicable Me ride twice and laughed even harder the second time :D ... read more

Sorry there wasn’t a blog this morning, we had written one but forgot to publish it, so you can all check that out if you haven’t already seen it! Today we headed out to the French Market which had lots different stalls from tacky ‘designer’ handbags to original pieces of jewellery. Once Annie spotted the cupcake stall she made a beeline for it. They sold literal cupcakes – a cake in a cup!! :) Scotty didn’t go easy on it though, he liked it more! We weren’t as eager to try the alligator mind…we aren’t that adventurous! Amongst all of the voodoo dolls that we’ve seen around New Orleans we found the coolest stall that had characters like the Joker, Spiderman, Shrek and looooooads of other ones. But Scotty had to get the Bob Marley one ... read more

After an unpleasant bus journey we finally arrived in our New Orleans hotel at 8am. Luckily they were able to check us in early so we took advantage and had a yummy breakfast and a catch up on sleep before heading out for some lunch. We found a small diner along Bourbon Street which had three gay waiters and an old style jukebox (the stereotypical American diner). This is the most unique city we have explored so far; one street is full of art galleries and the one next to it is full of bars with live music. Up each side street there were rows of picturesque houses but some streets had construction work, from the on-going recovery after hurricane Katrina. One thing that impressed us both, was nothing to do with the city, a dog ... read more

Well the storm last night dropped the temperature to bearable for our walking today :) We took advantage of the free breakfast by having cereal, toast, a waffle (freshly made by us!) and some donuts :) When in America… By walking in the wrong direction along the Riverwalk (there were only two directions) we came across the first post office in Texas which was a pretty and traditional building! Then we strolled back the right way along the picturesque river toward the al fresco restaurants and quirky shops. Remember how we said “when in America” well Annie certainly ate like an American for lunch by having not one, but two giant slices of pizza, and then a slice of cookie (see pictures for full detail :D ) Her energy certainly perked up after that! The Alamo ... read more