Happy Birthday to Me!!

  Today was a very special day it was my birthday and I turned 27.  It was the first time I got to celebrate my birthday in England.  When I woke up I was really happy and excited, I came downstairs and found a few things had been placed out for me.  My uncle made me a traditional English breakfast of eggs, bacon, sausage, hash browns, cooked tomatoes, beans, mushrooms, and bread and it was all very good.  I opened up my cards and my present and got a big chocolate bar yum!  Kimberly and I went off to the Harry Potter Studio Tour and it was so amazing, when we saw what there was were in awe.  They started us out with a few showings and the last video of an introduction to the tour the screen went up and the door to the Great Hall appeared and at that point I got emotional.  After the Great Hall we were free to go about ourselves, everywhere we looked we saw different props, stages, and clothing that they used in the movies.  They had a room where you can fly in the flying car, on a broom stick and took pictures, it was a great keepsake.  We found ourselves outside where they had the Kinghtbus, the Flying Car and Motorbike, Tom Riddles Grave, the Dudley House, the Potter Cottage, and the school bridge.  Kimberly and I tried butter beer for the first time and really enjoyed it.  We went back into the other part of the tour where it was more of the architectural part and it was really great seeing all the drawings.  We were led into Diagon Alley and that was really impressive.  We came to a big model of the castle of Hogwarts that they used for the close ups of the school and it was really big.  Our last room was a room inside Ollivander's, where they had a bunch of wand boxes sticking out, Kimberly got excited because she thought we got to take a free wand home :)  We spent a good amount of time in the gift shop since our train didn't leave into later on in the evening.  It was such an amazing day and the best birthday I have ever had.  Tomorrow we are having a really long day since we are headed off to Clovelly, but it should be fun.