Well, this is it. Our last day in Birmingham.... well for some of us. More on that in a minute. Hannah had an 11:00am match and she won her first British Open match 3-1 over a girl from England. She played very well and is moving on to the next round Saturday. Mary Pat, Emily and I had to leave after Hannah's match. We are leaving Hannah and Ryan behind in a foreign country. Don't panic, they are in good hands with the Khan family. They have very generously volunteered to fly them back and watch over them the next couple of days.
We have a train booked backed to London at 12:50. We have tickets booked for the Harry Potter Studio Tour (more on that later from Emily) in London for 6:30. If you ever plan on visiting London and want to do this tour, you need to book it months in advance. It is one of the most popular tourist destinations in England. Of course, we didn't know that and waited too long to book and nothing was available while we were actually in London. Fortunately, we were able to get tickets for the last session on the Friday night before we leave. Unfortunately, it meant hightailing it back to London (that is an oxymoron). Uber from Squash Club to train station, arrive 10 min early, board as train is ready to leave, arrive in London, take 3 subway lines then an Uber to arrive at hotel just in time to check in and hop back in an Uber for Harry Potter. Make it to Harry Potter just in time only to realize that Emily left her phone in the Uber. Deal with that and get in line just in time for Harry Potter.
Hannah here. After my match, mum, dad and Emily left to go to Harry Potter World back in London. Leaving Ryan and I in the hands of the Khan’s, lucky them. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to play another match today because I got a bye and Ryan wasn’t playing until 3. So Anis took us back to their hotel where they got us a room. Yes, our very OWN room. The Khan’s have shown our family lots and lots of generosity and I don’t know how were supposed to thank them.
Ryan and I then taxied back to West Warwickshire for his game. We got there a bit early and there was only one match on in the entire club. We watched that then I sat and watched Ryan solo for a half-hour waiting for his match to start. I guess the solo was good for him considering he hadn't actually had a match in a while due to all his byes. Eventually his opponent showed and his match began. He started off really well, even if the scores don't show it. The rallies were really close and Ryan had his opponent on his toes. Overall, Ryan was happy with how he played and that's all we could ask for.
After his match we just hung around the club and waited for the Khan's to come back for Sara's match. Sara's match (she lost :( ) was over around 7:00 and it was time to go out to dinner. Everyone was starving! Back to the hotel we went where Anis ordered 3 large pizzas, chicken wings and mozzarella sticks for the 5 kids to eat. Let's just say we had a pizza and a half left and some wings when we were done (mostly eaten by Amin). The pizza wasn't as good as what we were used to in Windsor but it was still good.
Later on we went to the lounge area (only for members) and got some (more) free food and drinks. We played a game of cards for a while with the Fast and the Furious on the TV. Once we got bored with cards we played HeadsUp and had lots of laughs with Amin singing and Ryan acting out what clothing spanks were.
Craig here. Harry Potter was amazing. This was the actual set and location where they
filmed the movies. They had all the clothing, the masks, video clips how it was all put together.
Anything you can think of about Harry Potter, it was here. Our tour was almost 4 hours long
and you never got bored looking at the sets and the film-making. This is a must-see for
anyone visiting London.
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