Sightings 2, 3 & 4

Tuesday (Day 107): The Mother Load of All Star Sightings

The best shot of the night!

An altert from Mugglenet.com advised Harry Potter fans that filming for the last Potter movie, Deathly Hollows was taking place this week in the Piccadilly Circus area. So armed with a fully charged camera I left my flat hoping to be in the right place at the right time.

A quick survey of the area revealed that shooting would indeed be taking place! I stationed myself at what I hoped would be an advantageous location and waited.

After what seemed like forever, the three arrived in separate cabs. They were quickly surrounded by police and handlers, then swept aways for makeup and scene perp. Body doubles and extras arrived as well, making the task of the evening more difficult than I had hoped. Nonetheless, the three hours I spent last night on the set of Harry Potter - I repeat - on the LIVE set of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows were an incredible experience! Just feet away from Harry, Hermione and Ron - unbelievable!!!!!!!!!

Yes! I took this video on my very own camera!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just when I think the London expereince can't get any better, I am blown away by yet another "once in a life time" opportunity. Maybe Alan will be at the Globe on Thursday!

First Star Sighting

Danny Boyle
Academy Award Winning Director and Producer
Seen March 5, 2009 while shopping.

Thursday (Day 60): Found at the grocery store!

In the joy that followed the relative ease of our Macroeconomics exam, Tuche and I decided to head over to Oxford Street to do a little shopping at HMV. Although it’s a chain present throughout Europe, Oxford Street boasts the largest, and we were eager to do some browsing. We both made excellent purchases! I bought the Sense and Sensibility soundtrack since it was marked down, and reveled in the Alan Rickman picture featured on the insert! =)

Europe's Largest Music Store

Afterwards, we decided to run into the Marks and Spencer Food Hall to grab a quick bite to eat. As we sat at the bar, eating our sushi and reading about Gordon Brown’s trip to America in the newspaper, Tuche suddenly looked up and gasped. Before I had the chance to ask what had happened, he was whispering to me that Danny Boyle, the director that had won the Oscar two weeks earlier for Slumdog Millionaire, was in front of us looking at the juices.

Unfortunately I had left my camera on my bedside table, since I had just uploaded pictures from Krista’s birthday on to Facebook, but I was able to find a pen and rip out a page of my Jane Austen themed address book so Tuche could get an autograph.

It was a surreal experience -- forcing ourselves to approach Danny Boyle in the grocery store, but it was an experience we will never forget. After telling the story numerous times back at the flat, we turned in for the rest of the night to study for our Business Dynamics final. What a great day.