Universal Studios

Julles, Anthony, LaReita, James, Sam, Ben, Ammon, Jacob, David
Posing in front of the Knight Bus
James in front of Flourish and Blotts store
Dad enjoying a butter-beer
The big dragon over Gringott’s Bank
Extreme closeup of Ammon and Mom
We all have wands
Ammon and Jacob on the bone slide
Jacob and Ammon riding the water slide
Trying on hats in the hat shop

Fan boats in Florida

Fan boat ride – boat 1 – James, LaReita, Ammon, David, Jacob
James
Jacob
Mom, Ammon, Dad
Jacob and James
Spotted 1 alligator
Spotted another alligator
Ammon falls asleep on the way back
Anthony, Ben, James, Sam relaxing after a fancy meal of turtle soup, shark, and alligator
Ammon and Jacob crashed in the van on the way back to the hotel

Blistery fingers

Dave: At an overnight campout with the scouts I had forgotten the charcoal for the dutch ovens (actually I mistakenly brought a bag of lime powder that was also white and blue like the Kingsford charcoal bag I was aiming for). So I had the dutch oven with the peach cobbler dessert in the fire pit to cook. When you cook the dutch oven with charcoals the oven’s handle stays somewhat cool. When you cook directly in the fire the handle gets a bit hotter. Despite wearing leather gloves, when I reached into the fire to pull the oven out by the handle, I soon realized that the handle was much hotter than I’d expected. So I had a choice to either drop the oven back into the fire and risk spoiling the dessert or “take one for the team” and carefully lift it out of the fire pit and set it on the ground. This is the result of my decision:

Ducth oven handle burn – but the cobbler was saved and good