Harry Potter in London!!

Friday, July 13th, 2007
London, England

Julia and I went running this morning in St. James Park and Green Park, right by Buckingham Palace. It was so cool!! I think I am going to go do it almost every day.

After running, Julia wanted to go shopping again, so I went BACK to Tesco, and I bought fresh fruit outside and then more pasta sauce and cereal inside. It was 11 pounds or something--I think I am good on groceries for quite some time now.

I made pasta for a third night in a row, but this time I added basil and crushed red peppers to my healthy living red sauce, and it was delicious.

After dinner, Rebecca and I went to Leicester Square for Harry Potter at the Odeon. This cinema has no air conditioning, and the bathrooms are in the theatre itself, not in the lobby or anything. There is a curtain, and they show both commercials and previews before the movie. After the previews are over (there was one for Wicked!!), the curtains close and then reopen one more time before the movie starts. People clap wildly like they are at a show. The movies are something else here. I guess it makes a bit of sense why they cost about five times as much as they do in the states. Oh, I forgot to mention that I also preordered my Harry Potter book and I am going to a midnight signing next Friday night!! Anyway, it was so cool watching the Order of the Phoenix fly over the Thames literally a five minute walk from where I am staying. Even the part with the telephone booth elevator got me all excited. It made me want to go find that telephone booth and test it out!!

So while I definitely do not want to spend the money to see another movie here, it was worth it for Harry Potter!! I had a great time, and really enjoyed the movie as well. A critic here said that the movie is good enough to satisfy HP fans, but no good enough to convert those who are not already obsessed with Harry Potter. I do not think this could have been said any better.

So this was yesterday, which means that I am now just about updated here!!