I do believe in fairies... and Harry Potter

Day 3! Our group started out the morning with a walk through Hyde Park. We saw Kensington Palace and the beautiful gardens! This is the palace where Queen Victoria was born and lived until she became queen as well as where Princess Diana lived.

We ended our Hyde Park walk at the Prince Albert Memorial. Queen Victoria built this and the Prince Albert Hall after his death. We can see both of these from our room! Our room view is so wonderful! We overlook Hyde Park and can also see the London Eye!

Continuing the Victoria and Albert theme of the morning,

our group headed to the Victoria and Albert

Museum so we could start our sketchin

g for the architecture class. Sketching buildings in great detail is quite difficult we soon learned. We had lunch in the courtyard and sketched the museum and worked on our tans during this not

so lovely heatwave that

we seem to have brought with us to London.Once our group split up, Samantha and I took off our shoes and "paddled" through the water just like all of the little kids! It was the perfect way to cool off!

After the museum, we headed to Brick Lane for a few hours to study

the Bangledeshi people for the Anthropology part of this class. We had a very good Banglodi dinner, and our waiter was so kind to answer all of our questions!

Then the magic began! Samantha LOVES Harry Potter, so we headed over to King's Cross to see Platform 9 3/4! I'm not much of a fan myself, but it was very cool to see! We must have looked like Harry Potter fans because the

station workers kept pointing us where to go even without our asking. It was slightly embarrassing, but at least we got there!

We ended our night with gelato and a walk through Hyde Park to see the Peter Pan statue! It was movie perfect! We continued our walk to Diana, Princess of Wales, Memorial Garden and then decided to call it a night!