Sunday, July 31, 2016

July 28, 2016 London



 The werner brothers studio tour of Harry Potter.

 Room under the stairs.

 So many details you just don't catch in the film.

 The great hall.


 Teacher costumes and the sorting hat.



 House points.



 Dress robes.

 Fake food.

 The ceiling from the great hall.


 Wands.

 Portrait of the fat lady.

 The clock

 Goblet of fire carved from one piece of elm.



 Chamber of secrets door.

 Gringots vault door.



 Harry potters brooms

 Mad-eye Moody's chest.

 Tapestry.

 Platform 9 3/4


 Hogwarts express.




 Night bus.

 Letters from the movie in HP 1

 Umbridge's office.



Taking our stuff to school

 Hagrids motorcycle.

 Weezlie's car.



 Pawn from the chess set.



 Fun little props everywhere.

 Diagon Alley.
 Weesly shop.

 Cool drawings 

  Detailed models


 This is the castle they would use for the outside shots of the castle. It was amazing.


 Wands, at least the leftover ones after they blew up Olivanders shop.  They are all handwritten on the boxes.


 Stonehenge



Guess who was driving on the wrong side of the road with all the crazy roundabouts that go the wrong way.

St Paul's cathedral.

 God fearing people. 

 So much detail.



 St. Pauls from the Tate modern.


 Tate modern

 This tree is pieces of wood put together to look like a tree.


 Little metal square.

 Mike by the wood against the wall.


 Enormous fake potatoes.


 Warhol.




 This was such a cool piece.  It is concrete and the holes go all the way through so you only see light at eye level.  It was so clever.





 cardboard art.

Water towers.

Mike's favorite art piece at the Tate.

 Rothko




 Plane white is so cool

 Cube of crap.  I am pretty sure that is the title for this one.

 London Bridge.


 Tower Bridge.


 Cloudy day.

 Big Ben from the London eye.









 Buckingham palace.

 Yes the crest is a lion and unicorn.


 prince albert memorial.


 Science center.




 This is a bunch of household items put together, like carpet and linoleum etc.


 back

 Prince Albert again.

 Serpentine museum in Hyde park.

 We grabbed some lunch from the cafe inside these boxes.




 These people were dancing I think for a photo shoot outside in the park on the art.



 Walking from one museum to another.

 Natural history museum.  We found a meteor and knew Rex would be thrilled.


 Gems to make a rainbow.

 Extinct dodo bird.  I was surprised how big they were.


 The front of the natural history museum.


 Kenzington palace.


 Kensington palace.  I wish they had little cakes on those lights.   They look like cake trays.

 Fresco.  It was interesting to find out how the palace had changed over the years.  They royals had a ton of money so each one change it as they lived there to suit their likes.


 Crazy old dresses.  I would hate to have to walk through a door with that sucker on.


 They really do have tapestries.  So odd.

 Fancy.

 This is the other wing they stripped down and tried to restore it.  One of the royals didn't think it was fancy enough and painted all the wood white and put all these curtains up etc.  Could you imagine stripping all that wood?!?

 Scones with clotted cream and jam.  Clotted cream is like the middle of heavy whipping cream and butter.

 Walking to Buckingham palace.

 The changing of the guard.

 Cool dead end we found wandering around.

 Cool glass sculpture we found wandering around.

 another cathedral.

 Tate brittish.

 We found some cool modern art there too.  We found old stuff too but it was not as cool.

 wood

 Wood.



 This is a piece of wood that only the top is connected.  It loops around like an 8.





 Toast art from the 80's I couldn't look away.  Just imagining someone biting all that toast to make the people imprints was crazy.

 Cool building.

 British Tate.

 Wicked.  It was fun to go see a play with Mike.  It was our first time.

 We were able to go to the temple that is way south of London.  It was so pretty and simple.  It was great because we haven't been to the temple since we moved.
 We drove down to the English Channel but it was so crowded and hard to park we just drove by.  My nerves were shot by the time we made it to the water.  It was crazy driving.



Fields flying out.  It was so wonderful to spend so much time with mike one-on-one.  Usually I have competition.  We had a great trip with wonderful food, art, and a ton of walking.