"Rain or Shine... It's Potter Time!"

Monday, May 28

• We had our history midterm today, which took about three hours to take. Pretty much the entire morning we spent studying, but then, after dinner, we went and saw Wicked!! It was my first time seeing it, so I was so excited! The set was amazing! The songs were so good too. I bawled when they sang "For Good." We had pretty good seats too, so it was a great experience! It was totally wicked!! :)

Tuesday, May 29

• We had six hours of class today! We had three hours of English, then three hours of History. It was a pretty tiring day. After dinner, we went to Picadilly Circus for a girls' night out. First, we did some shopping. I got a Manchester United jersey, and I was pretty excited about it :) We went to a store called Cool Britannia, which is the ultimate tourism/souvenir shop of London. They have everything Britain that you could possibly imagine, even Will & Kate mugs. We got some ice cream from Ben & Jerry's, then went to the movie theater to see The Lucky One with Zac Efron. It was cute! All of us had been really wanting to go the movies, so it was fun to go out and see a check flick :)

Wednesday, May 30

• Today was the first day of free travel weekend. About half of us decided to stay in London and do all there is to do here, and we started out our day (after class) by taking a double decker bus to Warner Bros. Studios for a tour of The Making of Harry Potter!! They have on display tons and tons of props, sets, make-up, and costumes in the studio. The tour started out in the Great Hall-- yes, THE Great Hall!! There were mannequins of Hagrid, Dumbledore, McGonagall, Filch, Snape, Trelawney, Mad-Eye, and Flitwick, wearing their costumes from the movies! Around the Great Hall were the robes of the different houses, including the robes Robert Pattinson wore! A tour guide took us through the Great Hall, but then after that the tour was self guided. There was so much stuff to see! They had props from every movie, and information about the directors and filmmaking. They had the sets of the Gryffindor boys' dormitory, the Gryffindor common room, Dumbledore's office, Hagrid's hut, the Potion's classroom, the Burrow and Diagon Alley. Outside, they also had the Knight Bus, the skeleton statue in the cemetery from Goblet of Fire, #4 Privet Drive, the bridge at Hogwarts, and Godric's Hollow. I saw the invisibility cloak, all the wands and broomsticks they used, Mad-Eye's trunk, the sorting hat, Basilisk, Aragog, Buckbeak, dobby, all the horcruxes (not including Harry and Nagini), and tons more! We were all freaking out the whole time! We got some butterbeer about halfway through and it was sooo good! It was basically like cream soda with whipped cream, but better! After the tour we stopped in the gift shop to get some chocolate frogs and fizzing whizbees. I really wanted to get Nicholas Flamel's wizard card, but I got Dumbledore, which was still way cool! It was so exciting to see all the props that were used in the actual movies! After the tour we were talking about why Harry Potter is such a big deal, at least to us, because the books and movies have been with us almost our entire lives! We've grown up with Harry Potter, and now it's so sad that the books and movies are over! We're watching Harry Potter 7:2 right now actually :) It was fun to just be a nerd with lots of other girls who are just as big a nerd as me :) I'll for sure be putting up some pictures when I get better internet. 
• After the tour we went to an Asian restaurant called Wagamama's. It was super good! All in all, today was super amazingly awesome! I just love that London has something for everyone. No matter where we go we always end up having a crazy fun adventure. I loved being able to go and do something today that was uniquely London, something that I would never get to do back home. Mischief Managed :)