Another round of butterbeer

With wet weather on the cards for today, we decided to try and spend the day indoors. After Phill briefly locked us out of our hotel room, we made way for a "Making of Harry Potter" exhibition.

Once we got there and had a coffee (and sweet treat, of course) we joined the three thousand other people in touring parts of the film sets used for the actual movies as well as plenty of descriptions and videos of behind the scenes for how they put the magic together (pun intended!)

This was a seriously long exhibit. They even had a cafe half way through for people to take a break. The tour had hundreds of props spanning all of the movies and overall it was incredible seeing all the details! In the building they even had a whole section with the forbidden forest that had huge tree trunks in it - as well as a copy of the real Hogwarts Express!

After about 4 hours we were done and decided it was time to sample the local KFC to see the variation. Overall it was pretty good, as you'd expect. To get our steps up we decided to take the shoelace express back.

After recharging at the accommodation for a while we went out to another ramen bar near our hotel which we had been eyeing off. It was good for Aus standards, but we've been spoilt by the other bowls we've had. Finally , we decided to end the night with another Ghibli movie, this time it was Princess Mononoke.

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