Adventure is out there!: I finally went home....

The Great Hall

Probably the most magical day of my life. Why? Well, technically I went to the Harry Potter Studio Tour in London, but as far as I’m concerned, I went to Hogwarts! We were at the Warner Brothers Studio where all the props, costumes, and sets for all 8 Harry Potter movies are kept. Stacy and I were the biggest Harry Potter fans by far, and I literally cried when I stepped into the great hall. It was so overwhelming to actually be in the place that I’ve seen and read about for the last thirteen years. Maybe tears were not the right reaction, but I have no shame. My word, we saw so many amazing things—Hermione’s Yule Ball dress, Hagrid’s hut, Diagon Alley, the Chamber of Secrets, the Griffindor Common Room, the Weasley’s Burrow, Dumbledore’s Office, Dobby, Buckbeak, Death Eater costumes, the Knight Bus, and so much more. I even stood on number 4 Privet Drive and drank a butterbeer!! I also rode a broomstick in front of a green screen, so that it looked like I was flying over Hogwarts! Absolutely amazing. We learned so many tricks of the trade for movies and how much work goes into a production. For example in movie 5, it took a team of 31 people an entire year to create the two minute sequence with the inferi. It’s completely nuts how much work goes into every piece of the thing. But in the last room, we saw the Hogwarts Castle. It was so weird how I walked into the room, and it felt like I was home. Hogwarts is home. I am now going to upload an obscene number of pictures (still a small fraction of how many I took) so that you can see the sets for yourself! I could probably talk about this for hours, so if you want to know more--just ask!