harry potter nerd's slow tour of london

while i refuse to go on a paid "harry potter tour of london", i do find small joys in stopping by famous sites from the movies. one blustery saturday in june (seriously, was about 50 degrees), i decided to put aside my belief that zoos are evil, sad places and go visit the animals living in the london zoo. they had some pretty interesting species there, as well as the usual suspects - giraffes, monkeys, zebras and the like.

however, i digress. back to harry. perhaps you remember the film "harry potter and the sorcerer's stone"? well, it is in this movie that, at the reptile house in the london zoo, harry learns he can speak parseltongue. an important moment in every young man's life, really.


and here's me at the reptile house. i did not make any life changing discoveries on this particular day, although i did enjoy a strawberry cupcake later that afternoon.