Have you read the Harry Potter books or seen the movies more times than you can count? Have you taken quizzes to discover which house you’d be sorted into? Do you like to dress up in wizard robes and maybe own a magic wand for casting spells? If you answered...

There are a staggering number of things to do and see in Los Angeles and its surrounding areas. While, no doubt, a good majority of families will be headed to Anaheim for a visit to the Happiest Place on Earth, there is no shortage of other major attractions, events and...

'Sup! Tad here, the family photographer and videographer and über Harry Potter fan. Our frog family gets pretty hopping excited when we visit The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. We are such huge fans of the books and movies. We dress in our wizard robes and cast spells with our...

Do you have teens obsessed with Harry Potter books and movies? Do they enjoy action movies such as the "Jurassic World," "Transformers" and "The Fast and the Furious?" Then this is the perfect time to take them to Universal Studios Hollywood! This theme park and active movie studio immerses your...

Before we had tadpoles, and before there were movies based on the books, Leap and I were huge Harry Potter fans. The two of us read the books, went to midnight book releases, saw each movie on opening night and even dressed as Harry and Hermione for Halloween. (Leap is...

Sometimes it seems that the world is designed for a family of four. But not all families fit in that box of two adults and two kids. Or, you might be making a trip with extended family and have more adults and kids bunking up together than usual. When your...

Attention all wizards and muggles (non-magical folk) who are spellbound by dark magic! Any Slytherins out there? The Nighttime Lights at Hogwarts Castle is not running during the off-season times. We hope it returns for summer 2020. In 2019, Hogwarts Castle transformed with "The Dark Arts at Hogwarts Castle" show...

The people of Southern California have a love affair with their cars. They love the freedom and control that driving gives them, but with a dense local population, all of those cars on the roads can lead to terrible traffic. When you are on vacation, you want to relax like...

When you think of Los Angeles, the City of Angels, you think of the glitz and glamour of Rodeo Drive, the Hollywood sign on the hills overlooking the city and warm, sunny beaches. Movie studios and theme parks also come to mind. There is Universal Studios Hollywood in Los Angeles,...

When in Paris, you visit the Louvre. When in New York, you visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art. And when in Los Angeles, you visit the J. Paul Getty Center. Of course, all of these cities have many noteworthy museums besides these amazing art museums, but each of these special...