We all enjoy when pop up exhibits come to Atlanta celebrating some of our favorites movies or shows. There are two really great ones in Atlanta right now, and we were excited about both.
The first was the Stranger Things exhibit at Pullman Yards. We planned this as a Christmas countdown item, and each girl was allowed to bring a friend. Mia brought Judson Sampler and Lily brought Lauren Martin; they're both really big fans too!
Once you passed the sign above, you had to put phones up through a 45 minute interactive experience; no pictures were allowed! This part was really fun as you go into the Hawkins lab under the guise of a sleep study. At some point, they find out that you have some really cool powers, so they want to usher you in a different direction. About that time, our favorites from the show appear via video to let us know what's really going on and they want to help us break out. All sorts of interesting items ensue as we seek to break out. It ends with us being in the upside down (wearing 3-D glasses!) where Elle and Max are facing all sorts of horrible creatures that we have to defeat. This was a really fun experience!
When this part was over, you walk out into an area that's designed to look a lot like the Starcourt Mall. They had several sets you could be a part of, food and drink, lots of picture spots, a scavenger hunt, and of course...merch. We spent a ton of time in here taking it all in. Here's some of the fun we had.
We all loved this set from Season 1 when Joyce is trying to connect with Will as he's in the Upside Down.
Mia had fun working at the Family Video store.
Oh no, a demigorg is breaking through!
Mia seems to be a little terrified of Veckna while Lily and Lauren must think he's kinda cute.
We all shared a couple of Surfer Boy pizzas for dinner, and then we were excited to get Scoops Ahoy ice cream for dessert!
What 80's kid didn't play at an arcade?!
We all tried a couple of tasty mocktails from the Upside Down bar. Half of us enjoyed "The Starcourt Special" made up of sparkling orange juice, grenadine, orange slice, and maraschino cherry. The other half of us enjoyed "The Eleven" which was lemon lime soda, cherry lemonade, lemon slice, and maraschino cherry.
Lily and Lauren had fun doing a photo booth session. We all liked seeing some of the costumes from the sets, including this famous one of El's.
Ryan and I had fun doing this too!
This was a fantastically fun evening with friends!
This was outside of the exhibit, and I just loved the picture of Lily in front of it.
One of the family fun gifts that the girls opened on Christmas morning was tickets for the four of us to go to the Harry Potter Exhibit in downtown a few days after Christmas. We couldn't wait to see what all they had here!
After checking in we walked into a big room where they had a Marauder's Map on the wall. As we tapped our wristbands on the way in, our names appeared on the map which was cool to see.
Then it was time to see the Hogwart's Express enter in.
We opened the doors with the help of some magic, and started to walk through. There were lots of "living portraits" hanging on the wall, including the Fat Lady.
We went to our houses. Lily and I are in Ravenclaw while Ryan is a Hufflepuff.
Mia has been re-sorted into Slytherin instead of Gryffindor.
It was neat to see lots of props and outfits along the way. They did a great job of explaining the reasons behind a lot of the details that were chosen for each one of the characters and their outfits.
It was really neat to see the Great Hall with all its floating candles.
We all practiced our Defense Against the Dark Arts with the Riddikulus spell.
Potions was an interesting area as we could see all the different options to use.
We were able successfully brew a few potions ourselves!
Props from the TriWizard Tournament.
It was fun to go into Hagrid's Hut and see just how huge his giant items are!
Mia seeing what it's like to live under the stairs at the Dursley's house, and learning what it's like in Umbridge's office.
We all tried our hand at some Quidditch.
The Black family tapestry.
Outside the chamber of secrets.
With the three deathly hallows; good luck finding the invisibility cloak.
A wand duel at the Battle of Hogwarts.
A memory of Mia in the pensieve and a few items from Dumbledore's office.
There were some fun parts for Fantastic Beasts as well. We all managed to escape into Newt's suitcase!
This was definitely a morning of family fun!
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