Harry Potter Studios

 I got to open the door to the Great Hall. This is exactly where the actors filmed all the scenes in the movies. It's incredible.

Flat Lola meets Harry Potter (well the studios)

 Flat Lola hanging out in the Gryffindor Common Room.

 Flat Lola learns how to make potions on the Potions Class set of the Harry Potter movies (pictured left).


On the right is Daniel Radcliffe's first set of robes that he wore in the first Harry Potter movie after Harry gets placed into Gryffindor. Daniel is the actor that played Harry.

 Fred and George opened a wizarding trick shop. This is the outside of their shop.

Dobby is a house elf and one of my favorite characters. I loved being able to see him. He really is very little.

Flat Lola in the UK... Part 3

Tuesday, we went to Roald Dahl's museum in Great Missenden. We learned all about his quirky writing habits and about his life. If you haven't read anything by Roald Dahl, you should!

The picture below is in Brasenose College, which is a part of Oxford University. Flat Lola and I are in the chapel where the students meet for chapel. 

On Wednesday, we walked all over London. We also went to see Matilda The Musical. This picture below is Flat Lola before the show starts. 

This picture is me trying to get to Hogwarts, where Harry Potter goes to school. The train leaves from Kings Cross Station in London. 

Big Ben. 

The London Eye

This is my mom's class. Doing the Matilda pose. 

Tuesday in Oxford and Great Missenden

This gigantic footprint belongs to the Roald Dahl's BFG or the Big Friendly Giant. Today we went to Great Missenden where Roald Dahl lived and wrote his books.

This Wonka gate is the entrance to his museum.

Izzy, the tour guide, used me as an example of how Roald Dahl would sit each day in his crotchety, old chair and write his stories. He wrote for 4 hours a day. It was fun, and I got to be creative.  My favorite part was going through all of the rooms and seeing how he wrote his books. Also the chocolate room was the great!

In a lot of the chapels, there are these fancy bird podiums. Today at Brasenose College (part of Oxford U), I finally got a picture. Also I loved seeing the great hall where the students eat there meals. It looks like a much smaller version of the great hall in Harry Potter.

Tonight we discussed the book BOY by Roald Dahl and then went to dinner at Turf Tavern. I ate pulled pork nachos and a beet brownie with mint ice cream.

Flat Lola in the UK part 2

 

This beautiful building is the entrance to Christ Church College. I went to church here on Sunday morning. The church service is Anglican and very formal. 

This is my friend Erin; she is from Minnesota and attends Vanderbilt University. We are riding the Oxford Hop On-Hop Off bus, which means we get to ride around town to different sites. Hop off spend some time at a museum or shops then hop back on to ride to anther adventure. Yesterday I hopped off at the History of Science museum.

Monday

This is probably my favorite place so far. This picture is at the Natural history museum, which is famous for its dodo collection.

I also see this dinosaur skeleton. It is huge. Flat Lola doesn't even come up to its ankle! I took several hundred pictures here. It is AMAZING.