so this morning was our last day of class. basically i am so stressed. finals are thursday. there are so many things i want to do in this amazing city but i really want to do well in class as well. i need scholarship money! hahaha paying for school is no bueno! so pray for me that i can pull off good grades in these classes!
after class i went to the post office and mailed my huge box of london goodies home! my arms were shaking afterwards it was so dang heavy! but i am glad to have that on the way to lawg city! (logan). after that i went and got lunch at my favorite place.. eat! yes it's called eat. they have THE best baguettes. ham and jarlsberg. yummy! i also got a little muesli pot which are my very favorite thing in the world. basically yogurt is my drug these days. i am addicted. i went and ate it on the upper floor and felt very local and cool. i loved it. i will miss london so much. after that i hopped on the central line and went to oxford circus to do some last shopping! first i went to top shop. oh my gosh. it got so cute while i was in scotland. also it isn't so crazy as when i went a few weeks ago. isn't that weird?! i was so scared because the olympics are in full swing but it wasn't even bad. so weird. but i got an america shirt and a new pair of leather flats to replace those cute t-straps i got that first week because they are TRASHED. they smell so bad. i definitely got my moneys worth out of those babies! i wish i had more money though because that place was so cute... i wanted everything!!!! then i was off to my favorite.. Liberty! i thought i was done but i just had to go back. everytime i go back i fall in love with that store more. i got lots of gifts there. so family get excited! i also have a liberty loyalty card now! hahahah. this is concerning. i will miss that place!
after that i had to hustle home cause it was time to do the Harry Potter set tour! i was sooooo stoked! just me and chelsea went which worked out really well. i love doing things in small groups. so we took the tube and then a train out to this smaller town. then we got on a bus to the studio. you walk into the set and of course there is the gift shop. this got me so excited. they had all the legit souveneirs. wands, quidditch uniforms, jewelry, chocolate frogs, uniforms, stuffed owls... so so so much cool stuff! but all of it was so insanely overpriced!! it was painful! but i did get some stuff :) it was funny, i asked the girl working at the till (cash register) if she liked working there, and she said yes, but she always dreamed of getting transferred to orlando. so then i told her about how i am moving to orlando! also another tour guide was telling the crowd to enter to win a trip to orlando so i thought that was funny. i am so lucky!
so anyways, then you go stand in line for the tour. while you are waiting in line you see the first set, the cupboard under the stairs! everyone is so excited you can feel it. then you walk in and go through two different rooms, stopping in each to watch a film to get you super stoked. it's very disney-esque. they did an AMAZING job. so after the second film they end with this great dramatic scene with danielle radcliffe, emma watson and rupert grint (harry, hermione and ron) walking through the big wooden door to the great hall and i thought how cool would it be if the screen just lifted and that door was there? and guess what.. that's exactly what happened. it was seriously magical. one of the best parts was the tour guides and people that worked there were just as excited as the guests were. it was awesome.
so they open the big doors... and you are in literally in THE great hall. its THE set they used. all the tables, chairs, silverware... and up in the front they have these mannequin like things wearing THE costumes so it looks like the characters are there. they did an amazing job. it was surreal. being on the set you also notice a lot of detail you dont pick up on in the movie. it is amazing how much work went into this movie. i still can't get over it and i've been home for three hours.
throughout the sets and soundstages they have lots of placards and movies that they did an awesome job with. they interview cast and crew and it seriously was so fascinating. we spent four hours there and i won't lie, you could probably spend six there. we were the last group so we were a tad rushed because it was closing.
me and chelsea also stood in line to get pictures in front of the green screen on brooms and in the weasleys flying car! it was so funny. after that you have a little refreshment break and they have butter beer! it was SO good. its basically cream soda, but the froth on top is so good. it kind of has a salted caramel taste and its amazing. at this point you go through the outside sets which are number 4 privet drive, the knight bus, tom riddles grave... etc. then you go back inside and see all the mini models of hogwarts and concept art which was amazing. then you walk into this room and its hogwarts castle! it seriously took my breath away. it's a 1/24 scale of it that they use to pan around in the first movie. seriously amazing. then you walk through Diagon Alley! this was so cool to me because just a few days ago i was in the Shambles in york which is what they based it on. after reading all the stuff it was so cool to see the places that they based a lot of the set on. for instance, hogwarts is based a lot on durham cathedral.. which is where i was just yesterday!! also most of the outdoors stuff was in scotland, which i can totally relate to now. it was just amazing. i am in shock. it was like disneyland, just as good. and you know that means a lot coming from me! basically this is a MUST SEE in london!!!
we got SO lucky and made the last bus and barely made our train! once we got into our neighborhood we went to Tazas because chelsea hadn't had it yet! mmmm so nom. i decided to go healthy though so i went into sainsburys and got a egg and rocket sandwich, a banana, and a muesli pot! so yummmy :) mmm :) then we came back to the centre and watched the americans kick booty in basketball!
costumes in the great hall. notice harry's first little uniform outfit! so cute!!
costumes, costumes, costumes! my favorite-hermiones dress from the yule ball from the tri wizard tournament
wigs! here you can see snape and bellatrix's hair
harry's dorm!
wands!
invisibility cloak!
dumbledore's office. sorting hat in the back!
memory cabinet from dumbledores officE
potions room!
my favorite kitty :)
the gringotts flying thingy
umbridges pink kitty room
chocolate frog! waiting in line to get pictures on brooms in front of the green screen
BUTTERBEER! so good!
tom riddles grave! crazy i just saw the one that inspired her in scotland!
guess the address... number 4 privet drive!
creepy voldemort baby thing
diagon alley!!
this literally took my breath away.. the hogwarts castle!
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