Lobster, Harry Potter's Dorm Room, and Some Art

 Happy Monday/Tuesday!  It is Tuesday somewhere so were posting our drink related posts and linking up over at Elizabeth's blog.  Elizabeth is still celebrating her 10 years of  T-day which is quite a feat!  

I am posting my drink first in case you want to skip the rest of this post which is heavily ladden with Harry Potter (I know some of you are not fans).  During our Geogia trip I wanted to try a few lobster rolls.  When were were in Duluth, we found Steami's Lobster which was rated on the list of lobster rolls to try around Atlanta.  I know this looks nothing like Erika's rolls from Pop's, but I wanted to try it anyway.

The beer was perfect with the lobster roll.  I liked the lobster roll - I would give it a 7 out of 10. The roll part was very strange...I couldn't decide if it was supposed to be a rectangular hot dog bun or french bread.  The lobster was wonderful, but the bread part didn't score high with me.  Hubby had the lobster fries.  He liked them.  The night before got to Duluth, we stayed in the Harry Potter Dorm House in Chickamauga, Ga. I promised pictures so here they come (today is Harry's birthday so it seems the perfect day to post all this - lol). 

As I shared last week, we parked in front of the Ron's Dad's Flying car.

The car was packed inside with details from the movie - Harry's trunk, Hedwig's cage, plus some other items. 

One of the rules is that you have to call in 30 minutes before you get there so they can start the "magic."  I won't tell you the magic in case you want to stay there too, but it is super FUN.  We tried to call 30 minutes before but we were the very top of lookout mountain and had no service.  So then we had to drive around Chickamauga for a bit... The Dorm Room house is actually a tiny house.  It doesn't look like it could be from Harry Potter on the outside but it does have this fun mail box and a cool door. 

By the way, this house is right next door to the Adventure Movie house which is decorated like Raiders of the Lost Ark.  That house is bigger and has three bedrooms.  The bedrooms are hidden - you have to find them.  It was Sunday and she had no one in it and she let me go exploring.  I found one bedroom (it was behind a curtain in the bathroom.  I couldn't find the other two.  Hubby came back with me and we found another behind a book case.  The owners had to tell us how to find the third one.  It was the coolest room and it was decorate like a tent in the Amazon - literally.  It was super cool!  She also has several other properties like another Harry Potter themed house (bigger than the one we stayed in), the Gamekeeper's hut (like Hagrid's house), a Fairy Tale house, and a castle (complete with a hidden treasure and a giant shower - one of the biggest I have ever seen).  All her properties are super reasonable and she is VERY nice.  We want to go back. 

Now back to the Harry Potter themed dorm house we stayed in.  When you come in there are "House Rules" and in the scroll there is a Scavenger hunt of Harry Potter items.  There are hundreds (literally) of Harry Potter items in this house!

I am not going to share everything just in case you want to come stay too, but I will share a few pictures.  The bathroom was amazing and she put towels out matching our personal favorite houses.Hubby through my Ravenclaw towel in the tub so his house would be the only one showing (lol). I could show you 10 more pictures of the bathroom but my favorite part of the magic is in there and I don't want to ruin it for you if you want to go. 

This house has two twin beds and a couch so it only sleeps three.  We were a bit afraid of sleeping in twin beds, but I slept so good. 

There was so much to look at tht I didn't even notice this sorting hat until the next day.  You can see fro this picture she has all the walls and the ceiling covered in old rugs. Very cozy and the perfect feel. 

All the Harry Potter movies are available.  I have seen the movies a bunch of times, but I have to say nothing beats watching the while you are staying here!  You feel a bit like you are in the movie.  

She has some walls all done with pictures - very cool effect. 

There are several cabinets and cubbies filled with HP items - here is one.  Notice all the fun things just in this one cabinet or actually this one shelf in the cabinet. You can see my reflection in the picture - super fun. 

Here is one of the scrapbook pages I did on the trip.  I am linking it up with **ART*JOURNAL*JOURNEY*  where it is the very last day of Alison's Come Fly with Me theme. I have an owl post digital image so it works. 

I cased THIS cool page by Jennifer over at Splitcoaststampers.com.  She is this week's Featured Stamper.  When I started the page, I was going to use the fireplace and other cozy looking pictures, but they were too dark. I like it anyway. 

I also did a card this weekend.

The lantern stamp is from Penny Black.  I bought it after watching how to paint it with distress inks from THIS fab video (you need to watch it).  I bought the candle/candle holder too and can't wait to try it.  Micheline is so good with stamps and painting. I know you are wondering about the balloon arrangement on the left of my painting - the Splitcoaststampers.com inspiration challenge theme this weekend was balloon arrangements - lol. The sentiment is from SU!  One more Christmas card down.

Happy T-day and hope you have a wonderful week!

Hugz,

Nancy