Harry Potter World

For our one year anniversary, Jared and I celebrated by taking a trip to Harry Potter World in Orlando, FL. Though it was completely different than our honeymoon to Jamaica, it was so much fun! We stayed at the Rosen Inn at Pointe Orlando on International Boulevard.

The outside of our hotel.

Our room. Each had flat screen TVs.

 This hotel was in a great location and was a great price! It was right across the street from Pointe Orlando, which is this neat outside "mall" with tons of great restaurants. During the day we would eat lunch at City Walk or in the park and then for dinner we would walk across the street to Pointe Orlando. Our favorite restaurant (besides Emeril's) was the place we ate our first night in town - The Funky Monkey Wine Company. 

Dinner at Funky Monkey Wine Co.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They had a GREAT wine selection.We started out with a glass of 2009 Gaga "Blanc." It is comparable to a chardonnay and was delicious.We drank this with our appetizer of roasted red pepper, black bean, and spinach artichoke hummus and with our dinner of sushi. For dessert we shared a banana bread pudding which was to die for, and each had a glass of a 20 year old Fronseca Porto from Portugal.  

The rest of our trip was just as wonderful as this first night. We spent the next morning in Harry Potter World with breakfast at the Three Broomsticks and did the rest of Islands of Adventure in the afternoon.  BTW - Butterbeer is AMAZING! It is like a cream soda on steroids with a salted caramel butterscotch foam of goodness of top.

HARRY POTTER WORLD!!!

In front of Hogwarts.

Waiting to get on the Flight of the Hippogriff.

Jared :)

Me :)

That night was our anniversary and we went to this neat little mexican restaurant where we listened to live music afterwards. 

At the mexican restaurant.

The next day we went to Universal Studios. Honestly, I could have done without going here at all. The only good ride was the Mummy, and everything else was kind of lame. That night we had reservations at Emeril's Orlando to celebrate our anniversary and it was incredible. We started out with a glass of champagne and fried calamari with olive salad. With dinner we had red wine and Jared had lamb with asparagus, fried sweet bread, and mashed potatoes and I had polenta stuffed quail with bacon braised swiss chard and pearl onions. For dessert Jared had Godiva white chocolate bread pudding and I had a vanilla bean creme brulee. Everything about this dinner was fabulous. We had SO much fun. The next day we went back to Harry Potter World to do our favorite rides again. Wednesday came too quickly and we headed back to our puppy in Huntsville.