Monthly Archives: December 2003

Return of the King opened today and I got to see it. About two and a half weeks ago I preordered the tickets for my mom and I to see it for her birthday at Famous Players Silvercity Riverport. Its about a half hour drive away; it’s in Richmond. Anyway, so mom picks me up at lunch, I’m skipping my last two classes. We’re gonna go to lunch and see the 3:45 showing. Well we get there and the 2:30 isn’t sold out, it was 1pm then. Mom says we should change it, and all through lunch I’m panicing about seats and whatnot. I’m getting all worry-wartish. My mom said I’m better at being a worry-wart than her! So I gobble down my lunch (stomach ache insues) we get in there, we get good seats (wow) and we sit. and wait and wait. Then at like 3:00 they tell us that they have to cancell the showing because they can’t get the thing to work. They refund our tickets and I started leaking. Yes my eyes were tearing up and I was quite upset. So much for a birthday afternoon right? Well my mom and I had our heart sets on it. So we look in the paper then head over to Alliance Atlantis Fifth Avenue Cinemas. And the showing for 4:00 (15 minutes after our original, original time at Riverport), isn’t sold out. So we get tickets and go in. Unfortunately because mom forgot to lock the car, she [...]