Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

On Tuesday, July 14th I went to the midnight showing of Harry Potter #6. I went with Linsey (my sister-in-law) and her two friends. We went to the Harkins theater in San Tan village (out in Queen Creek). We got there around 8:00 P.M. Some people had been there since really early that morning. They opened up all of the theaters. It was crazy!! Linsey had got us tickets 4 days early. But she first called an IMAX near her house. They were all sold out! And four days early too! Then she called Harkins and they had only a few left. Linsey even made cupcakes for the occasion!! They were cute and delicious!! She made them and then took the icing and made the faces of Harry Potter, Ron Weasley (?), and Hermione Granger! They looked a lot like the real characters!! Harry even had the lightning scar!! They were adorable!! Anyway, the movie was good over all but I read the book right before so I noticed all the things that they changed, left out, or added.

Note: DO NOT READ THE BOOK RIGHT BEFORE THE MOVIE!!!!!

But I enjoyed the movie and I had fun! It was really good the way that they did it but I wish they would've stuck to the book more. Don't get me wrong... I STILL LOVED IT!!!!!

St. Thomas

In St. Thomas we went to Coral World (it's kind of like Sea World, but not as good), shopping, the beach, and snuba diving. It's not snorkeling or scuba diving. It might be a mixture of the two. I don't know.





This was the view when we were coming in.






Here are some pictures from Coral World.




This is a pelican or a seagull or some type of bird.

This is one GINORMOUS fish!!!

Have you ever felt a stingray before? I have! They are sooo slimy!!! It's gross!! I remember getting slime or something to that extent in my nails!! Oh, I just got the chills!!

Basically you have probably guessed that this is a fish.

A seahorse.

Taylor holding a lobster or hermit crab or something like that.

This is a sea turtle. Don't worry... it's not distorted or anything. It's just the angle that the picture was taken.






I think that the workers there said that this was called a cucumber. Weird, huh?!




Here's pictures from before and during snuba diving.




Melissa before snuba diving.





Taylor and Tanner before snuba diving.





Tanner (I think) while snuba diving.





Melissa while snuba diving.





Sorry. The picture has weird coloring, but it's Matt, Melissa, and Taylor (maybe). Anyway, next time I'll show you pictures of and from Antigua.

Wicked

Last night (July 8) I saw the play Wicked. It was REALLY good! I loved it! It was REALLY funny too! It's just if you go and expect a lot then you won't like it as much as you thought you would. I didn't know exactly what to expect so I liked it a lot. It's the same with movies and stuff. I saw it at ASU's Gammage (or whatever you want to call it).

Puerto Rico

Here are some pictures of and from Puerto Rico.




I really have no idea what Matt, Tanner, and Melissa were doing. Maybe they were having some type of napkin fight or something? I don't know. Anyway, we had dinner before we got to Puerto Rico. There were like 4 or 5 different dining rooms. Ours was called the Paris Dining Room. We ate our dinner there everyday. They had great food!!! It was delicious!!




Once again Taylor, Matt, and Tanner being silly while waiting for our food. (You'll see them being silly a lot)




This is an old beat up castle at Puerto Rico.




The streets of Puerto Rico.



This shows how crowded it was there. It got even worse after that!!!




Sorry this picture is sideways, but that place is like an old beat up motel that's not in business anymore or something. I don't know.





This is like a church or something. I really don't know what it is, but we took a picture of it so... I guess we'll just think what we think it is.





Actually, I have no idea what this is either. Guess again!





This is an okay view of how green it surprisingly is!





This shows how many houses and apartments that are crammed together.





This was the view when we were leaving port. Amazing, huh?! Next time I'll show you pictures of St. Thomas.

Sorry

Sorry, the first pictures of the cruise are after the "More pictures from the cruise" post. The computer is all messed up.