Lauren Goes to London: Catching Up! Tuesday 7/24

Tuesday 7/24:
From now on (because I sound stupid saying it every time) just assume that every weekday morning starts with class from 9-1:30.
After class, we all quickly scurried to get ready because at 5PM we were touring the sets where Harry Potter was filmed!
It was quite troublesome to get there, but it was worth it. We had to take a tube to a train to a shuttle (and repeated that on the way back).
When we got there, we picked up our tickets and went into the "queue" to wait in line for our tour to start.
First, they brought us into this room where they showed a bunch of the Harry Potter movie posters in all different languages and gave us a little background on the famous movie series. After that we were escorted into another room where we watched a short film about the backlot and the set that we were about to tour. The video ended with Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint (Harry, Hermoine and Ron) standing in front of the doors of Hogwarts (the school) and then the screen lifted up and the door was right there. It was so amazing!
We entered Hogwarts through the Great Hall and got to see from of the famous costumes worn by the characters as far back as 2001, when the first film came out! We then got to walk around the studio/sets and see a bunch of sets and actual props from the movie (i'll spare the details because there was so much there I couldn't even hit everything if I tried!)
We then did this "broom ride" simulator thing where you get to "ride a broom" on a greenscreen and then they put you with a background and it's actually pretty cool because you get to wear a robe and everything! We ended up doing it and buying our pictures because in a group they were only 5GBP each.
It took us about 4 hours to get through the entire set (it was self-guided for a majority of it) I was so overwhelmed with everything that was there, it was amazing how much detail Warner Brothers put into each and every prop and character, they even had someone hand paint portraits to hang in the background of some of the sets.
We finally got home around 11PM and as usual, I fell asleep immediately-- this trip is truly wearing me down!