Monday, August 11, 2008

A sees London


They still have some of these old phone booths.  And there's a double decker bus in the background too.


A being silly.  With something in the background - houses of Parliament??
In the British museum.
Big Ben.  Looks like he got crossed with the leaning tower of Pisa today...
A didn't want to get too close to the horse - I guess maybe he read the sign.
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Sunday, August 10, 2008

Harry Potter on A's trip - more photos added

A's trip to London/Oxford included a good bit of Harry Potter. They had a talk from the Dumbledore stand-in from the first movies. He said in the first movie the only lines he had were "Welcome to Hogwarts" as the students went up the stairs.

Here's Dumbledore with A:


They also got sorted into various houses - A became a Billywig:


They played a rousing game of muggle quidditch:



They ended the week with a Hogwarts banquet, where they ate such things as witches broth, supreme of dragon with lizards' tails, blast-ended skrewts, mixed mandrake and finished off with fortescue sundae. A says it was all delicious. He did wish that we had packed his Harry Potter robe and wand, but he was able to borrow one of each from a fellow student (and not everyone had HP gear anyway).

* Finally got photos to post. Enjoy

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