Ahhh October. The trees start to change, the air gets a little colder, and pumpkins take their place on every doorstep. It's also my best friends birthday month! And as always, Laura and I celebrated her birthday in some very exciting ways!
(Westminster Abbey and my AMAZING pasta!)
We started out by taking a trip to London! Laura had miraculously booked tickets to Harry Potter and the Cursed Child after waiting a year striking out in online queues and finding nothing but sold out shows. Did we go to London with the sole purpose of seeing this show? Why yes, yes we did. Was it worth it? Good lord it was MAGICAL!
So if you’re me, and a huge Harry Potter fan, I’m sure you’ve read the screenplay for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child? Well yeah, so I wasn’t too thrilled with it. I feel like it read kinda like bad fan fiction. JK Rowling had no part in the writing of the screenplay so of course it’s not going to be quite what you would expect, but unlike a book or a movie, or a play for that matter, a screenplay just has no life. There’s no feeling and it’s hard to get those mental pictures. But the actual play? OH. MY. GOSH. Literally, there’s no better word than magical! The cast was amazing and fit the characters very well, the special effects and “magic” were fantastic, and it brought to life the Wizarding World in a whole new way! I would 100% recommend to any Harry Potter fan!
(Outside the Entrance!)
After the two part, 5 hour play, we went to The Ivy, a high class, fancy restaurant Laura found to get some celebratory birthday drinks. Everything was so fancy, I felt so out of place! And I said the name of my order wrong and got a chuckle/weird look from the waiter. What can I say, I’m from Wyoming?! But after a good glass of wine and some fried zucchini (classy right?) we went back to our hotel to get some sleep before our next full day!
(Westminster and Big Ben)
Laura and I have both been to London, so it was fun to explore all the areas we loved. We went to Camden Market and had some awesome cheesy pasta, shopped around, considered getting tattoos, and took lots of fun pictures! We also navigated all the bridges and walkways along the Thames, exploring Westminster, the London Eye, and we swung by the Tower of London and Buckingham Palace. London is such a fun and vibrant city and it was so fun to get back and visit, if just for a few days!
The next weekend, and for Laura’s actual birthday, we headed off to Bristol. So continuing with the Harry Potter theme, we went to Bristol to get these Harry Potter “Freak Shakes”. So these are crazy shakes that have all sorts of other goodies on them! It was a butterbeer milkshake with a donut, chocolate frog, Gringotts chocolate coins, a chocolate wand, whipped cream, caramel, and a pair of Harry Potter glasses! Oh yes it was a ton of sugar but it was totally worth it! YUM!
(The only way to do milkshakes!)
After our shakes we walked all over the town to get rid of our sugar highs! Bristol is also the home of the street artist Banksy, so we took ourselves on a Banksy walking tour to find his work in Bristol. It was pretty cool to learn more about how he got his start and everything he’s done since! Such a mysterious and talented artist! We also went to a really cool museum called the M Shed that detailed the growth of Bristol, saw a stunning cathedral, and ate so much good food! Bristol is a lovely port city with a lot of interesting history! It is worth a stop if you’re in the area and have a day or two to kill!
(Banksy's first work of street art, vandalising the hull of a ship!)
Overall, it was a wonderful October full of fun and exciting experiences! November has started out pretty darn well too and hopefully the next month goes well as I’m half way through my first semester of Grad school! Here’s to countless more adventures!
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