For our second activity for our kids' service group in the month of June we went to a retirement care facility and visited the residents there and then played games with them and even sang them a few songs! It was super sweet- everyone enjoyed it- kids and elderly alike! We all plan to go back again!
My parents are starting a new tradition of taking each grand kid on a Disney trip for a few days. So June got to stay on after we left California and go to Disneyland with my parents! They went to both parks and had a great time!
The last main day of our trip was spent in Universal Studios! We were mostly excited for the Harry Potter section, since, as you may recall, Hazel is obsessed. (We're on book six together!) and the other kids have watched the movies with us so they were all excited too. We had fun exploring, shopping, riding the rides, and eating at the Three Broomsticks.
Also worth documenting is how HOT it was that day. It was nearly 100 degree! So we had to keep ducking into shops and cafes to cool off and survive. It was a bit draining haha. But in the early evening everyone perked up and came alive again.
A special thing happened too. We went to the wand shop presentation and in that they choose someone from the group (there were several families there) and the shop owner chose Hazel to be his special participant! She got to be a young "witch" shopping for her wand, and, as they say, the wand actually chooses you. So she got to do a few spells with a couple wands but they weren't right but then music started playing and he picked out a certain wand and as it was placed in her hand she was lit up and wind blew across her. haha it was epic and funny. And guess what wand it was? It was a hazel wood wand! So it worked and we of course bought it. ;) You can use the wands too through the Hogsmed to do spells at certain places so she loved doing that. June also picked out a wand.
