Harry Potter Day

Our Harry Potter and the Cursed Child tickets were for 1:00 and 6:00, so we planned the day with brunch and early dinner. We took the Tube to Covent Garden and ate at Bill’s restaurant. David said the tea was excellent and I loved the pressed juice. We got to try the full British breakfast. We agreed that the baked beans were just okay but we both liked the black pudding. It was sort of like a sausage patty but sweeter. David liked the smoked sausage because he said it was milder than our breakfast sausages.

We stopped by the Agatha Christie memorial and then saw St. Martin’s theatre where her play Mousetrap has been playing for more than 70 years. Of course we stopped and bought tickets for Saturday’s performance!

Then we arrived for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Part 1. It was amazing! They used lots of magic tricks to make the special effects work so there were tons of quick changes for transformations. They had rolling staircases that moved all over the stage. They had cool fire effects when they were shooting spells at each other. They even had dementors flying over the audience. It was so well done with really captivating lighting and sound. I mean there were bunches of 8-10 kids in the audience and they were spellbound for 5 hours so you know it was captivating!

We had Thai food for our early supper between shows because we knew it would be quick. Then we shared some ice cream (scoop of Biscoff and scoop of Speculoos with chocolate shards) which was amazing. We still had a bit of time to kill so we went back to a bookstore we had found earlier and I bought a signed copy of the book below and some magnetic bookmarks of London Tube stations. Also, when we were walking along all of the fashionable shops I saw a Carhartt store and couldn’t stop laughing. Apparently what are considered rough and tumble work clothes from the tractor supply store in the USA are considered fashionable clothes here!

Scary Voldemort signs abound in the theatre before Part 2 started.

Overall a great day! Tomorrow we head to Stratford-Upon-Avon to get our Shakespeare fix!