After returning to London and finally getting to sleep (our return
flight boarded at 10:20pm), we awoke bright and early to visit the
Warner Brothers' Harry Potter studio tour.
The
studio was astounding. I read all of the books (multiple times!), and I
watched all the movies when I was younger. It was amazing to be able to
see the props and sets that they actually used in production. I'm not a
big movie guy, but I love seeing how movies are made and filmed, so to
be able to see the Harry Potter production was really cool.
We
started with the Great Hall of Hogwarts. We saw costumes from some of
the various characters in each of the houses and the professors.
We
then saw a bunch of other stuff, like the Yule Ball ornaments, wigs,
sets, furniture, and the costumes for the women at the Beauxbatons
Academy of Magic.
Its
amazing how the creature shop worked. A lot of the major creatures had
animatronic versions as well as using CGI (computer graphic imaging).
Buckbeak was a good example of this. We walked through Diagon Alley, and
saw the model of Hogwarts.
Since
we had the evening free (and I was exhausted from the crazy sleep
schedule this weekend), I decided tonight would be a good time to do
laundry, work, and stay at the hostel. I got a fish and chips from their
mini-restaurant. I don't know why, English fish and chips are super
plain...
That evening, I had my first experience with working
through time-zones. I had a conference call with coworkers in New York,
Duluth, and California, so it was interesting to see what different
times it is across the globe.
Matthew is a senior studying Computer Science
at the College of Saint
Scholastica. Not content with only working with computers, Matthew also
performs in the CSS Theater, studies business, finance, economics, the
physical sciences, and loves to go ballroom dancing. He is a voracious
reader. His hobby is to learn about as many
different fields, and about as many different topics, as he can. Matthew
also enjoys writing about himself in the third person. For more from
Matthew, visit him at matthewrandolph.com.
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