Success!!!
Today is DD's 11th birthday and wow did we pull it off!
The plan was for DD to wake up for school, walk down the hall to the bathroom and find a curtain with a track 9 3/4 Hogwarts Express sign on it. Go through the opening (thanks SFrog for the idea!) and find a white owl, some Hogwarts books (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through the Ages) and a letter from Hogwarts. It all worked great but I didn't count on the part where she woke up at 2:30 am unable to go back to sleep and have all of this unfold in the middle of the night. It worked perfectly but boy oh boy am I exhausted.
Thank you ElizabethN for the idea for the remote program. She was accepted to Hogwarts' special ICE MAGIC program (Institute of Correspondence Education for Magical And Gifted International Children) because enrollment at the residential program is limited to students who live in the British Isles...
O. M. G. The screams, the shrieks, the squeals of delight! There truly are no words for how perfect this was.
And Tigerle I just saw your post. Sounds awesome. Now we have to plan her birthday party. I wish we had a similar castle setting. We'll have to see what we can come up with.
Thanks again all. I think I have the happiest 11 year old on the planet today!
Last edited by Pemberley; 12/21/15 05:58 AM.
