More London Exploration!

I went to see Platform 9 3/4 at Kings Cross Station! As I love Harry Potter way too much for any sane 21 year old, this was super exciting for me. Luckily, I'm not the only dork, and a few other girls went too. Even though it was awesome, it was a tiny bit disappointing. They basically just found a random spot in Kings Cross next to a train track (not on platform 9) and put a sign saying  "Platform 9 3/4" above a brick wall with a cart sticking halfway out of the wall (as if it were disappearing into the wall). It was a necessary trip to make and satisfied my Harry Potter fix.


After that, we walked around a bit and stumbled across a kind of fair/market thing in a little park. It was very adorable. Then we made our way to the British Museum and saw the ancient Egypt and Medieval Europe exhibits. We aren't huge museum people, so we didn't spend too much time there. It was a beautiful day, so we decided to go to an area in London called Covent Garden and walk around and find a pub to eat in. The food was sub-par, but we ate on the second floor of a cute pub and got a nice view of the busy streets.


After that, we went back to the dorm and I got to meet Kelly's mom who was visiting. She's very precious and it made me miss my mommy even more!


I had a field trip that week, which was another film walk around the Notting Hill area. We walked around the area, which is a really wealthy, but artsy, area (where Portobello Market is located) and we learned about a lot of cultural things (not just music and film) that went on in the area. We also saw where they filmed the movie Notting Hill and parts of one of the movies (I can't remember which) that the Beatles made.