we went to florida with my fam for xmas this year.
we left christmas morning right after the usual christmas breakfast.
it's this egg and white sauce thing that you put on these homemade (usually) pastry things. and an exotic fruit salad. with hot cocoa of course.
it's so good, sometimes i wonder why we only have it one time a year.
traditions are funny like that.
and another thing, i never really think about my family's traditions until zach came into the fam. like, we have a super weird christmas eve dinner meal, but i never thought about it before. i mean, it's kinda cool, fancy, and definitely unique, but the first time zach had it, for christmas eve, i can imagine that it seemed pretty random. haha. but to us it's totally normal and wouldn't be christmas without it!
it's called roquelette (i'm not actually sure how to spell it...). it's swiss. and my mom went on her mission to switzerland, so that i suppose is what they do in switzerland as well. it's this delicious cheese you melt on this special little cheese melting thing and then you put it over your little red potato. and we''ve added brawts to meal as well. mmmm.
i like tradtitions.
anyways, back to christmas day. after breakfast we took off for FL. and once we landed we headed to downtown disney and ate at the T-Rex restaurant.
it was about 10 at night and we hadn't eaten since breakfast but it was gooood. especially to jer. and i quote, "those were the best onion rings i have ever had." there you go, onion ring crowd.
animal kingdom was incredible. i am going on the record saying it was my favorite park. and we only spent like 2 hours there! really though it was so well done. disney just goes all out. and this was some of their finest work, if i do say so myself. we loved seeing all the cool animals and they just made the experience so awesome.
there's a giraffe in those trees!
oh and in the below pic are my little brothers rivals.
yes, we found these two fellas, with their under armor hoodies, tube socks, and all. and had to take a pic to show the boys. zach spotted them. we couldn't stop laughing.
so of course the boys just HAD to find the "zach and liz" rivals. haha, this is the pic they got. but really, this looks like a much better version of us! i was dying though, the vneck and the sunglasses - totally zach. i think the leggings and headband is right on though for the chick. touche little boys.
now, for the moment you've all been waiting.
harry potter world!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you guys, it was everything i dreamed of. i loved it all. i felt like i was in hogsmeade and i seriously am so glad universal took this world seriously. it did not disappoint.
we ate in the three broomsticks.
drank butterbeer and pumpkin juice.
ate chocolate frogs and every flavored beans.
and went on a ride inside of hogwarts.
i felt like a little kid, and i really felt like we were in harry potter's world. i loved it!
the theme parks were so fun, and my friend at work (joelle) saved us by going into detail on what we've got to do while there. she used to work at disney world and has been many, many times, so she made a list of things we cant miss at each park, the best places to eat, the coolest things to see, what to pass on and her personal favs in each park (including universal) so i feel like we covered all the awesome stuff and skipped all the waste of time stuff and made great use of our time. but still we left exhausted every day (and honestly we were far from hardcore, by 6pm we were DONE with parks).
it was nice to have a few days to unwind at the beach for a few days after the parks before heading home.
me, tj, my mom and dad went to nasa. which was sweet and quite informational. it's amazing thinking and learning about space. it's insane what is out there.
and we also went to mission impossible with the fam.
and it was AMAZING.
we highly recommend it. it's definitely my fam's type of movie, we all loved it. but who wouldn't, come on.
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