Details, Details...

There are no spoilers to the Batman movie in this post.

Last Saturday I finally went to see Dark Knight. I say finally because even though it had only been out for a week, it seemed as though I was the only person in the country who had not seen it yet! Anyway, my plan was to leave my house about 40 minutes before the movie started at 5:10pm, which would leave me plenty of time to run by Target across the street first. I left a little later than planned but still made it to Target and I ended up buying my ticket at almost exactly 5:10pm.

I go into the theater and make my way to Theater #2, as it clearly states on my ticket. I hand the nice ticket-tearing guy my ticket and he points me toward the left where my theater is waiting. I look over and see that the second theater is indeed playing Dark Knight. I quickly slide into the restroom knowing that I'll miss a couple of previews, which I don't like doing because I love previews, but this is a two and a half hour movie and I have the world's smallest bladder. So, I make a quick run through the restroom and then dart into my theater.

To my surprise, the movie has already started. Hmm... kind of odd, but whatever. It's one of the smaller theaters and the place is FULL. I go up a few rows and ask the lady and her husband if the one empty seat next to her is taken. She says no and I slide in and sit down, put down my bag and turn my phone to silent. After maybe 30 seconds I'm settled and ready to take in this amazing movie I've heard so much about.

The Joker is in a hospital room and talking to a guy that I've seen in the previews so I have an idea of who's in the scene. But, after a little bit I realize that I've missed something. But I waited a little bit longer just to see what was going on before I do anything. After about 20 minutes or so, I lean over to the nice lady who let me slide in next to her...

Me: What time did this movie start?
Nice Lady: 3:10
Me: Ahhh.... I'm in the wrong theater (duh). lol
Nice Lady: Yep

So, I gathered my things and left thinking that either I really did go into the wrong theater or the lady who sold me my ticket sold me one for two hours earlier. I check out my ticket as I leave and indeed, in my hurry to get to the movie, went into the wrong theater. Again, duh.

I had three options at this point.
1) Go to the appropriate theater and miss the FIRST 20 minutes of the movie
2) Go to the front, explain what happened and buy another ticket
3) Find what theater the 5:40pm showing was in and go to that movie and see the entire thing

Some of you may be sad to know that I took option number 3. And really, I don't know that management would have minded... :)

I'm telling you, some days I think I have blonde hair under all of this brunette stuff on my head. LOL Hey, at least I know how to laugh at myself, right? Well, that and I love giving "my" public entertaining stories about my life ;)

Northern Ireland

I know y'all have been waiting. So here they are... FINALLY. Enjoy :)



Me with some of the girls from camp.

Gotta love the Give Way signs :)

This was at a cultural event in the neighborhood we were staying in.

Beautiful sunset over the North Atlantic.
That small piece of land way off in the distance is Iceland!

This would be the view from one of the churches. Pretty, huh?

The group from Clinton, MS that I went with.

This is at the Giant's Causeway. I'm doing my traditional Irish pose. lol

Please notice the SHEEP in the background... :)

Goofy kids can be found anywhere in the world :)

It was parade season. All of the small towns have their own band and they marched right in front of the church we were working at. We were like little kids! It was cool.




Ireland + rainbow+ seeing the END of the rainbow
= leprechaun and pot of gold



sadly we didn't make it over there to catch him :( those buggers must be really sneaky!

More pictures are here. And even more are here.

In the meantime....

I KNOW I'm taking forever with my pictures from Northern Ireland... but I was home for about 5 days and then went to the beach for vacation (I'll post pictures of that too). So, until then, please watch this video! It's seriously one of the coolest things ever.

Be sure to click "watch in high quality" below the video.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY

Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland is one of the first places you'll see him... and I was there just a few weeks ago!