A Mountie Abroad: Cambridge Calling: A Magical Day

Sorry I haven't been posting a lot, I've been quite busy. So, today was wonderful in every possible way.

I started my day at Mass where I got to see four cute little babies be Baptized. Also I got to see and receive Jesus which is always amazing.

Then I went to the bookstore to pick up my copy of The Cursed Child, the script of the new Harry Potter play. It was released today in honour of Harry (and J.K. Rowling's) birthday.

After eating I set out to the train station to collect my tickets for the train to London. I got there plenty early so I started reading my new book - as you probably know I enjoy devouring books and I finished it well before I made it to London. I'm not going to spoil anything but I am up for talking about it to those who have also finished it.

The train I took arrived at King's Cross in London, which of course just made everything more awesome (for you muggles out there; that's where students catch the train to Hogwarts).

Following that I traveled on, with several other Cambridge students, to the Warner Brothers Harry Potter Studio Tour. The tour was absolutely fantastic, I loved every minute of it. It was certainly worth the ticket price and I would love to go again. You got to see so many parts of what made the movies so magical. All the details and special effects are unreal. There were even exhibits and knowledgeable persons to tell about all the behind the scenes design work and character design - someone was even displaying how they made troll bogeys and dog drool from the first movie. As it is the fifteen year anniversary of the first movie they had a few special exhibits just for that one. My favourite part was the model of Hogwarts that they used to create the large outside shots. It is incredible and it was so amazing to get to see it.

It was such a long day and it took lots of running to catch trains and the tube to make it back to Cambridge but I had such a magical day that I just had to share.