harry Potter world

Slept in this morning till 9 then checked out and rechecked in at 10 as we had made two separate bookings. Breakfast was ceral as normal. However we had to go out and get some milk first. 

Didn't do much until about 2pm. Did some research wrote blogs etc. At 2 we started to get ready to go to harry Potter land. By two thirty we were ready to go however, with a long toilet break and Alastair forgetting his jumper we didn't get out until 2:45. Took tube to Euston station then train to watford station which we just made. Got really confused and someone spotted we were wearing harry Potter tops and pointed us in the right direction. Got to station and after a little run made the bus. Got to harry Potter world with 30 minutes to spare and got our tickets and had our bags checked. Bini got asked how old she was by the security lady who was a little surprised she had Tabasco sauce sitting in her bag (she uses it to make the ham and cheese sandwichs more edible for her. 

Began our tour at 4:30. First we saw the cupboard under the stars while we were winding the que. Next we saw a little video introducing the tour as a whole and  then entered the great hall where we saw the goblet of fire being lit. The great hall was amazing and just as we expected it to be. Next we read about all the different directors saw ginny weasleys make up mirror, and saw the set of the common room. We also saw a list all the animals used and their characteristics. The other sets we saw included, the clock tour clock, the potions room, dumbledoors office and umbridge's office. Next we saw how quiditch was filmed and we did some green screen picture stuff. We both have a very good picture of us on a broomstick with the quiditch pitch edited into the background. Next we did some wand combat practice and then entered the forbidden forest. Here we saw buckbeak and then spiders which were lowered down from above and were very creeepy. Before the half way break we say platform 9 and 3/4 and bini got her picture of going in. We saw the hogwarts express and one of the real carages. But the time we reached the half way stop it was 8:00. So we had butter beer whuch was great the top bubble stuff tasted like butterscotch and the rest was a fanta like drink. Also we had a curry for dinner which was bland but filled us up. A 4/10 on the bini curry scale. 

The  second half of the tour involved the   animatromics (not sure how you spell it) and the miniatures used in harry Potter. (Warning spoiler ahead). There was heaps of cool machines including buckbeak, a dragon wirh a flame Thrower and scabbers!!!. Also we saw the miniature hogwarts which wasn't so miniature. It was a lot larger than I expected and was very good. However you can see how much it changed though the movie as some parts are missing and other are logistically stupid. 

Got on the last bus our of harry Potter world at 10:00 getting home into bed by 11.