Scottish Adventures: me and hp [that's harry potter]

So again, this is rather old news to me, but not to you lovely blog readers! On April 25, my friend Maddie and I embarked on a journey to London. We were going there to go to the WB Harry Potter Studio Tour! So as I said, the journey started April 25, specifically at 10pm. For some reason we both thought our overnight bus left at 11pm, but thank the Lord I checked again at a little after 9, so we ended up jogging most of the way to the bus station so we wouldn't miss the actual 10pm departure!
The bus ride to London overnight was around 9 hours. I don't think I ended up sleeping more than 4hours at the very best, but somehow when we got to London around 7:30, I was up and rearing to go. It was also raining. Classic. Maddie and I walked to see Buckingham Palace in the rain and then it kind of stopped so we headed to Big Ben and Parliament, too. It was Maddie's first time to London, so I felt kind of special, knowing how to get around and stuff. Ha. It started raining again when we were on the bridge by Parliament, so we trucked it back to find somewhere to hunker down and freshen up. We were pretty wet by the time we got to a Pret a Manger and they didn't have a bathroom, so we didn't stay there long and instead went next door to Starbucks to freshen up. Classic. I don't know what else we did after that, mostly wandered, then we took the tube and the over ground train to the station closest to the studio. From there we took a shuttle bus to the actual studio.
It was so cool, even just in the lobby and gift shop. Eventually, it was time for our tour so we queued up and were in in no time. They first had us in one room where we stood and watched this little clip on the Harry Potter worldwide phenomenon, then we went to another room, basically a theater area, with super comfy seats and watched clips from the movie and the main actors said a bit and then it got epic. Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint were there! HA. Kidding. But that would have been even more insane. So right, they were sadly just on screen and they opened the doors to the Great Hall and were like "Come on! What are you waiting for?", then the screen raised and there were the doors to the hall right in front of us!! Cue collective gasp. There was a sort of tour guide there who asked for a volunteer to help him open the door and I was this close to being that person. Not bitter. ha. So that was really fabulous to watch happen nonetheless. I don't remember if at this point they played Hedwig's Theme or not, but throughout the whole tour music from the soundtracks played. It was absolutely fantastic. I'm obsessed with the music. So good!
I won't bore you with much else story-telling; instead I'll bombard you with some of the pictures I took. I took a bazillion because there was literally almost everything you could think of from the movies, so it was a little overwhelming, but very special to get to see it all!