HUNGER GAMES EDUCATION

What I learned at the Hunger Games premiere last night.....

• Even being at the movie theater for 4 hours, I still couldn't finish a large diet coke.
• When you are old and are planning on staying up until 3am, you should really try to get a nap in sometime during the day.
• No matter how long you have been married it is still fun to do something different.
• I was prepared to have to deal with loud, annoying teen-agers all night but they were all so nice and as soon as the movie started were quiet.
• Sometimes things work out and you snag 3 seats (Sam, me, my purse) in the front row of the upper level.  You know the seats....the one with the foot rest!! 
• I have no concept of ages anymore.  They all looked like jr. high kids to me.
• When watching a movie with teens, be prepared for laughter in strange and sometimes inappropriate places. 
• The kids really loved the Effie Trinkett character.  Every time she spoke they laughed.
• I had been obsessing about how much shorter Peeta was than Katniss before the movie started.  Once the movie started,it didn't really matter.
• Who says kids are insensitive?  The young man sitting next to Sam lost it when Rue....well you know if you read the book.
• It was so fun to watch a movie with people who weren't scared to clap, boo, or cheer.  I think that's fun! 
• The previews before The Lorax are much, much different than the previews before The Hunger Games.
• Every movie coming out in the next few months has something to do with vampires.  (Did you know Abraham Lincoln was a vampire slayer?   Neither did we!).
• When you are 40 something and you go to a movie geared towards 15-somethings, wearing a movie-themed shirt does NOT make you cooler.
• Sam totally reverted last night.  He was waving at people, giving every one he saw wearing a District 12 tribute t-shirt the Hunger Games salute, and heckling teens.  Lucky for him I was there and stopped him from putting on one girls' bread placard (that was evidently a tribute to Peeta). 
• You know you are old when you turn and give your spouse a high five every time someone older than you comes into the theater (for the record that only happened about 5 times and we were in a 500 plus person theater).

 Happy Friday!

May the odds be ever in your favor!