Harry Potter Party: Mandrake Dirt Pudding Sorting Ceremony

Every year for our annual Harry Potter party, we come up with a new way to randomly sort our guests into houses! One year we made Mandrake Dirt Pudding Pots for our guests and when they pulled their baby mandrakes out, the color of the “dirt” revealed their house! Here’s how we did it… Traditional…

How to start a Snail Mail Book Club

Who doesn’t love getting book mail? A few years ago, Kathryn and I were talking about how fun it is to get books in the mail. We love the idea of monthly book subscriptions like Book of the Month, but it can get expensive and lead to running out of space on your bookshelves. So,…

Harry Potter Party Game: Boggart Pictionary

At our very first Harry Potter party (more about the party in this post!), we played a game we created called Boggart Pictionary! We briefly described it in our first post, but people have asked for more details, so here they are… The way we have set up our annual Harry Potter party is by…

Harry Potter Sorting Hat Left-Right Game

When we posted about our first Harry Potter party, we shared how we randomly sorted all of our guests into houses and we’ve gotten several comments asking for more details! So here it is… We played our own version of the “left-right” game we remembered from elementary school! In this game, each participant holds something…

How We Threw an Epic Harry Potter Party

This past Labor Day weekend we held our very first Schmollivander’s Septwizard Tournament! As the name is probably not self-explanatory, our Harry Potter themed event consisted of guests being sorted into the four Hogwarts houses and competing in seven different tasks relating to the books to win the coveted House Cup. We even got lucky…

7 Things to Do in Brno, Czech Republic

When we visited the Czech Republic we wanted to see more of the country than just Prague so we decided to start our visit in the second largest city of Brno. Here are seven things to do that are walkable from the city center! 1 – Visit the 10 Z bunker One of my favorite…

Safari at Pilanesberg National Park, South Africa

During our trip to South Africa a few months ago, our safari was hands down the best part of the trip! We spent two nights at Black Rhino Game Lodge in Pilanesberg National Park. When booking the trip, I had thought 4 game drives – one the afternoon we arrived, two during our full day…

9 Things to Do in Cape Town, South Africa

This past September, my friends and I spent a week in Cape Town, South Africa and we loved it! There is so much to do in the city, as well as in the surrounding Cape region, so this list is not exhaustive but these were 9 of the highlights from our trip! 1 – Go…

Swimming with Sharks & Sting Rays in Belize

This past summer we went on a Carnival cruise on the ship Miracle for 7 days in the Caribbean. When the boat docked in Belize, we decided to go on a ship excursion to Shark and Ray Alley recommended by my aunt. We booked it ahead of time but if there are still open spots…

Why the District Six Museum should be on your Cape Town Itinerary

I’ll admit it, before I started research for our week in Cape Town, I didn’t know very much about the history of apartheid in South Africa. I knew we had to visit Robben Island where political prisoners, including Nelson Mandela, were held before apartheid was brought to an end. But I didn’t know about District…