After Camden, we took the tube to Leicester Square and spent too much time in M&M World! Then we went to see the Queen and had a wander around St. James's park, taking lots of pictures of ducklings. We hit the south bank and had another ice cream (after all the walking we had worked the first one off) and sat by a giant sandpit/beach and made sand castles and a sand turtle called Borris... We were going to do the Tate Modern seen as though it's open late on Fridays but our legs were tired so back to the hostel to rest for the next day.
Saturday we hit Oxford Street and the giant Topshop heaven that lives there. So. Many. Clothes. The afternoon was spent in Hyde Park with a picnic and several ciders, a walk round the Serpentine, past the first of many protests and then home to get changed ready for Green Day! What an epic show! We missed both support acts and got there just as Bohemian Rhapsody started, we walked through the crowd singing away, it's a pretty awesome sound hearing the whole crowd singing it all! Blitzkreig Bop and the drunk bunny meant it was nearly show time and we got ourselves into a good spot, near the pit and near the second barrier.
Out came Green Day to The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and straight into 99 Revolutions and into Know Your Enemy. Stay the night and Stop When the Red Lights Flash from the Trilogy were awesome, some people didn't really know the new songs but hopefully they will look them up when they get home. There was then a bit of a mix of old and new, my highlights were Nice Guys Finish Last and Waiting. I absolutely adore Waiting and haven't heard it live, and it was epic with everyone singing along. They then played Missing You from Tré for the first time, a good chunk of Dookie, Hitchin' a Ride ( love the 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4!) Knowledge was back, with a girl up on stage to play guitar. Lucky girl! Billie Joe took her picture in front of the crowd, just one of the moments that make me love him and go a bit fan girl! St. Jimmy is always great as is the sing alongs for When I Come Around, Basket Case and She. Then it was time for the madness that is King for a Day and Shout (with a little bit of Satisfaction, Teenage Kicks, and Always Look on the Bright Side of Life) I just love this part of a show, funny hats, the drunk bunny came back, dancing, saxophone/kazoo-off, fun times! X-kid was beautiful. Then Minority. Epic. Everyone seemed to go crazy for this one, I think that's one of the reasons it's my favourite... They closed with American Idiot, Jesus of Suburbia and Brutal Love. Some people seemed a bit disappointed they didn't close with Good Riddance but it was nice to have a change, and that is another beautiful song, a suitable replacement. And turning round to see the full stadium with lighters and phone lights was just gorgeous.
It was an awesome gig, with a great setlist, a good mix of new, old and really old (can you believe Dookie is 20 next year?!) and a couple of rarities. The guys looked like they were genuinely loving it and having fun, especially with all the fans that went on stage to sing and the cutest little boy with a Green Day Rule poster got picked out. There were some amazing singalong moments, I bet theres some songs Billie Joe doesn't need to bother singing and the crowd would do all the work :)Good times all round!
Sunday we hit Brick Lane for the market, we got an amazing chocolate and banana pancake for breakfast, even thought it was basically lunchtime, and checked out all the vintage goodies. Before heading elsewhere we got ourselves some of the cute cupcakes we saw, I had a glittery white chocolate one. Then a wander around Covent Garden and another ice cream, and then walked past some more protests around Trafalgar Square as we were going to Westminster Abbey. After another rest in another park it was time for the train to Harry Potter Land! It was Animal Actors weekend so we got to meet lots of owls and kittens and Crookshanks! We were a bit early so hit the gift store, I wanted to buy EVERYTHING! Capes, jumpers, the Marauders Map, wands, Tom Riddles diary, chocolate frogs... Everything! And while we were loitering here we saw Tom from McFly!
The tour was so good! We had a little sit in a cinema and watched the main 3 actors talk about what it was like working on the films then the back drop went and revealed the doors to the Great Hall! The whole room whooped! First of many geek moments on the tour. We got to see all the props, costumes, wigs, entire rooms, conceptual art, models... We saw Crookshanks do some tricks, had our picture taken with Hedwig outside Privet Drive, knocked on Number 4s door but the Dursleys weren't in... DRANK BUTTERBEER! Rode a broomstick, sat in Hagrids motorbike and went on the Knight Bus. Seeing things like the portraits for Dumbledores study and all the individual wand boxes in Olivanders really make you realise how much work went into these films. There's a photo of me casually walking down Diagonal Alley which I think might be my favourite picture ever! That or the emo mirror pose in the Mirror of Erised...
We had breakfast in style on Monday. Really we had a croissant from Harrods and sat on the pavement outside... We then looked at all the ridiculously expensive things and felt sad then we would never own the £51grand watch or the giant bottles of champagne. Acted like big kids in Hamleys getting glitter tattoos then back to the south bank for a burrito from Wahaca which was so good! Another ice cream as we walked down to the Tate Modern to be all cultural... We stopped in at another gallery which had photos from the first climb of Everest which were cool to see but confirmed that I won't be wanting to climb a mountain anytime soon. Then back to Camden to check out a bit more of the markets and to get another cupcake, this time I had an Oreo one (I'm putting this all down as market research for the Costa bake sale).
Then it was home time :(
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