Day 29- May 27th

To kick off my last week in London town, Whitney, Brooke, and I took a trip to the Harry Potter set! We're  really starting to get the hang of this whole urban travel thing. After the tube, a train, and a bus we made it to the magical world of Harry Potter. I love me some Harry Potter, but I'll admit that I'm not a  super fan. I thought the books were great and went to most of the midnight premires, but oh baby, I might be a super fan after today!!! Even the intro got me all excieted! I was so excited that I busted out a small (ok, not really that small) dance move when I heard that we could walk through the orginal sets, that the tour guide pointed me out (in a group of 100 people) and said, "That's the best reaction I've seen to that ever." 

Plus we had the surprise of being there for Animal week. I got to see animals that actually played Hermione's cat, Hagrid's dog, and even (wait for it) Hedwig (Harry's owl)!!! Be jealous. 

We got ourselves some Butterbeer (delish), rode some broomsticks, took some pics with Dobby, wandered down Diagon Alley (SOOOO COOL), got some pictures taken by nicest, most HP loving Japanese girls who were cracking us up (lots of peace signs, high pichted giggling, and "one, two, tree"s) and finished off with the model that they used to shoot all the exterior scenes of the castle (which took up an entire room). It was incredible. You walk into this giant room with dramatic HP music and lighting to see this incredibly detailed model... it was quite the moment :)

Then we headed back home to get some food. Here begins the worst series of decisions that I've made the entire trip. We walked to High Street Kensington (really cool actually) and saw all kinds of cute stores and restaurants. We went to Wagamama's for lunch (ate an entire pad thai by myself), then went to My Old Dutch Pancake House for a giant Nutella strawberry pancake (which we shared) and also each got our own milk shake (delicious, but definitely not the best decision), and then as we walked toward to the tube Brooke saw a Ben's cookies and thought it was a novelty (there's one in SLC) and despite my protests the next thing I knew I was shoving cookies in my mouth. Then we came home, did our laundry, took a nap, bought our tickets for the London Eye, and Paige and I headed out to walk around Holland park. We didn't quite make it to the park, but the neighborhoods we walked through were beautiful!

After our adventure, we met up with Whitney and Brooke at a place called Tortilla (depite the variety of food in London they only have two Mexican Restaraunts, and the workers speak French instead of Spanish), and then Whitney Brooke and I took off for the eye. We were worried about being late for our tickets, but there were only 5 peopel adhead of us when we got there! Talk about amazing (the Eye is always packed).

We went right as the sun was setting, and the lights in Big Ben were turning on. It was so beautiful! The weather had been warm and clear all day, so we had a perfect view. Then we walked along the South Bank, took lots of adorable pictures, and finished the night off with the best bad decision of the day... Amorino :)