The Legend Ends

Everything was happening on Wednesday so some choices had to be made! I knew I wasn't going to be able to go on the ISA excursion with Tom to Camden Markets because our teacher had bought us tickets to go see Richard III at the Globe. The other thing that was happening was the Dark Knight Rises premiere. But I really didn't want to pass up a free show at the Globe or my Dark Knight opportunity.

First we went to class, talked about theater, and I had a coffee break. Then we had time to take a lunch break before the show, so Lindsey, Emily and I went to Make Mine (delicious) for some sandwiches. I had the Tricolor again but this time in a wrap. During this time, this guy that worked there was eating and trying to talk with us. He wanted to know where we were from, apparently he was from Texas (I highly doubt that). We tried to ignore him and eat but then he wanted to know why we were here, then he wanted to know what political party we were with to which I responded neither because I wanted him to shut up but then he thought that was hilarious. I was like oh my god...shoveled my food down and then we left for the post office. As we were leaving he was putting on his coat. I told tthe other girls to hurry b/c I was not having this guy following us lol. It's too bad because that place was delicious but I won't be going back now. Anyway we went to the post office so I could mail out postcards and then we went back to campus to go to Richard III.

South Bank is a great area to walk and the Queen's Walk is photogenic. It was great to see the Globe and see a performance but we left after Act 1. We had yard tickets we meant we had to stand and I was in wellies because it was supposed to rain, so it wasn't very comfortable. Then it did start to rain so I had to get out my coat in a small space where everyone was doing the same thing. Everyone kept moving and standing in front of me and it was just hard to pay attention to the show. From what I was seeing, the show was great. There were just too many distractions andd occurances that happened that would make you lose focus on the performance. If we were sitting, it would have been amazing; I really like Richard III. So yes, after a little over an hour we left at intermission and made our way towards Leicester Square so that we could see the Batman premiere.

Once we were there it was crazy, I know that some people had camped out over night. We moved around a few times and finally we managed to get a pretty good spot where I could see the red carpet. I still had to deal with screaming girls and people pushing but in the end it was SO worth it. There was a giant batman mask that was crumbled and coming out of the ground. The Batman symbol was in an arch on fire, actually there was a lot of fire. They kept shooting off cannons of fire throughout the night. The tumbler came and drove down the red carpet and revved its engine more than once. Then of course there were all of the celebrities.

I saw Christian Bale, Christoper Nolan, Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard, Anne Hathaway, Cillian Murphy, Morgan Freeman, and my love JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT (I work my profile on him for class hahah). Then of course The Wanted was there (they sing the song I'm Glad You Came), Prince Harry, and Matthew Lewis (Neville from Harry Potter). There were a lot of British Celebrities there that I didn't know, but I took some pictures anyway. I feel like I'm forgetting someone else that showed up....hmmm. The most and best pictures that I got though were of Anne Hathaway. It was so cool though and I am glad that we went to have that experience. There were interviews going on and we could see everything on the screen whereas some people only had the screen that kept showing the trailer. It was great and I was on a JGL high for the tube ride home with Emily. It was so weird to think that all of those people were right there just hanging out in London watching a movie haha.

Emily andd I went out to Byron's right around the corner by us and it was delicious and flavorful. I had ginger beer and a cheddar burger and for dessert I had a brownie with vanilla gelato. Ah-mazing. Then after that I had to write two of my papers for class. That was a downer!