I was like a kid at Christmas on March 23. The long awaited day that The Hunger Games was opening up in theatres. I had bought tickets for myself and my two girls to go to the midnight showing two weeks prior and here we were with hundreds of other people waiting for the line to get moving. The air was thick with anticipation when we were allowed to go and pick our seats in the soon to be packed theatre. As my friend chooses to Zig when everyone else is Zagging a yell escapes my lips "Go Marissa Go"! The excitement was just too much for me to hold it in anymore. Because of her zigging we were able to get great seats. Halfway up the balcony and dead center. Well at least she was dead center I was about 5 seats from that. The lights dim and the previews start. I under normal circumstances love watching previews but tonight I just want the previews to be over with. When the also anticipated Twilight preview comes on I am instantly taken back to six months earlier while sitting in the movie theatre waiting for that very same movie to start and the previews came on. Low and behold it was a preview for The Hunger Games. One of the first that I had seen. Marissa sitting next to me lets out the cheer that I am holding inside because honestly I came to see that movie partially because I knew that The Hunger Games preview was going to come on and partially because I had seen all of the other Twilight movies I had to see that one too. Even if I am honestly not that impressed with them to begin with. Anyway I digress. The previews are finally over and I am catching the first glimpse of District 13 in Panem. And that was my world for the next 2 hours and 22 minutes (Yes I stayed and watched the credits so that I could hear the song Safe and Sound by Taylor Swift after all I had guessed wrong where it was going to be in the movie and was very disappointed when it just appeared in the credits). Let me be honest here the movie was just about as good as it could of been. And I cried... twice. I laughed and I cheered. I didn't want it to be over. But as all movies do it ended. I wondered if I sat there long enough if I the people running the movie theatre would just start it over again. But alas my urge to pee won out (let me note that I did NOT pee during the movie at all which in and of itself is worthy of a whole new blog post entitled "Jessica and the moments she missed during movies because she got up to pee during the middle of them, but she really couldn't tell you what they were because well she was peeing and would she would either have to pay to see the movie again or rent it on DVD to figure it out) and we had to leave the movie theatre plus I had two fourteen year olds with me. One of which insisted that she go to school the next day even though it would be well past 3 in the morning before she made it to bed. In anticipation of the movie I got together with some friends and made these awesome shirts that most of us wore to the movies (Marissa insisted that she didn't have a tee shirt that she could turn into a hunger games shirt BOO!).
Natalie's says "I'm not allowed to bet, But if I could, My money would be on you"-Cinna
Nichole's shirt says "Well don't step on me" -Peeta
The front of my shirt says "I volunteer, I volunteer as tribute"-Katniss
and the back says I survived the hunger games and all I got was this stupid shirt.
At the movie theatre waiting for the movie to start. Closest to me is Natalie, Marissa SIL's hand and cell phone, Marissa's Mommy, Nichole, and Marissa.
Waiting outside for the movie to start. Nichole is being her normal turd of a self and crossing her eyes. It's been her way of protesting pictures lately.
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