Back from the US, part 3, Hogsmeade (1)

from Key West we drove to Orlando, to enter "Hogsmeade" early next morning !!!
The Universal Studios opened at 9 am, but we arrived allready at 8 am. Good so, because we had to sty in line allready. A Lady from Birmingham,GB told me that she had visited Hogsmead the day before, but it was so overloaded with people that they tried another visit very early. When the doors opened, everybody, YES ! EVERYBODY walked straight right and directly into the Wizarding world of Harry Potter ! No one stopped at Seuss Landing or the other attractions, left around a corner at the oriental market, there it was to arch you have to pass to get into Hogsmead !!!



starting here with Zonkos

on to and into Honeydukes

Back from the US, part 2 , Key West

from Newark we took the Amtrak Silver Star and headed forward to Miami, took a rental car and on to Key West...




At Fort Taylor they started preparing for a big Halloween event, but we left allready the other day


we stayed just one night in Key West, we expected more nature, not so much party....

Back from the US, part 1 NYC

Hello my friends,
it took a while for me to get back to normal after our long US trip. The journey was phantastic and we saw so much ! Now I like to share some impressions from our tour. We arrived in Newark New Jersey and stayed there at the Best Western Robert Treat Hotel ( great Hotel, great service, Shuttlebus to the Newark Pennstation). We took the pathtrain from Newark pennstation to go to Manhattan Pennstation, from where you can reach the most NYC places by walking, but we tried also the bus and suburb, everything works fine.




We had breakfast at Tom´s Diner ( where Jerry Seinfeld and friends have met in the TV serie), great breakfast, nice service !

I´m packing....

... my things. We´ll leave soon and hopp over to the US to see a bit from the other side of world plus doing the Philadelphia Miniaturia November 5th and 6th.It´s my first miniature fair in the US, after doing so many dollshow there in 20 years of being in the dollbuissiness I´m excited like a beginner.
So guess what else ? We will be in the US during Halloween !!! booohooooo..... isn´t that cool ???!!!

I have two Babysitters for the house and the cats. I have warm clothes for the upper eastcoast and light clothes for the lower eastcoast in the bag, slippers and boots, two cameras and 5 Gigabyte to saving photos :o) I´ll try to visit the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando as well as the National Christmas Museum in Lancaster. I´ll promise to take as many photos as I can and show you the best when I´m back. Cross your fingers that the cameras will work !!!But I won´t leave you all here without any autumn impressions from my hometown here.... I had to test the handling of my new/old camera ( I found a great used one at Ebay ! Does perfect shots outside !!)

And here are the results from our latest walk in our little Village where we are living ...

What do you say ?

Is that a good camera or what ? ;o)






xxx talk to you in a few weeks ;o)
Silke