Yep... I've now randomly gone to Roanoke with a bunch of friends for the first time ever. Apparently this was something that people I knew in high school and community college did pretty frequently, but of course I always missed out on those times... good thing I actually have friends who remember that I exist now!
But yeah... me, Ruth, and a whooole bunch of other people (really, we had two cars crammed full, the only way we could've gotten more people inside of either of them is to put someone in the trunk or learn the ancient secrets of the Mexicans) went over to a movie theater in Roanoke to see The Secret World of Arrietty. Which I had actually never heard of until earlier this week when it was mentioned during lunch that people would be going to see it later in the week. On the way there (and back) I was in the passenger seat, in charge of the Google Maps printout that was the only way in hell we'd ever manage to get all the way into Roanoke without getting hopelessly lost. Apparently I did a pretty good job with that despite me usually having a terrible sense of directions--we never made any actual wrong turns, not even the one time we thought we had (what actually happened: the other carful of people went the wrong way, and since we hadn't seen them in a while we figured we had gone the wrong way instead. Nope!) Anyway, we managed to get to the theater (the Valley View Grande) with at least 15 minutes to spare before the movie started, plenty of time for bathroom breaks, popcorn buying, and assorted silliness. I've actually never been to such a big movie theater before, so it was kind of a surprise to see so many hallways with tons and tons of different movies playing... didn't get lost, though, and we were all in the right room before the movie (or even the previews) started. And ran into a random lady who just happened to be a Doctor Who fan, as we found out when some of our group randomly mentioned Doctor Who-related stuff. The movie itself turned out to be pretty good--I had no idea what it was about going into it, but it turned out it was about tiny people who live under someone's house (it was based on The Borrowers.) And there was a huge fluffy fat cat that reminded me a lot of Teekee. XD
Afterward, we (the carful of people in Ruth's car) ended up standing around talking to a random dude in front of the movie theater for probably about an hour, by which time the other carful of people had left and were probably most of the way back to school already. Apparently, Michelle's random fangirl squeals and evil laughs freaked the guy out a bit--he kept backing away every time, and eventually he ended up 5 or 6 feet from where he started out standing. XD And when we finally did head back home, we listened to Doctor Who-themed music (Chameleon Circuit) pretty much the whole way back. I would've thought songs based on a TV show would be horrendously cheesy, but some of them were actually pretty good as songs. And we decided that Ruth is at least part vampire, due to three different people all suggesting it to her in one day, in addition to being part reptile (and I think there was a third part, but I can't remember it off the top of my head.) I also picked up someone's ticket stub from a movie called Contraband and a package that once contained 3D glasses, in addition to my own ticket stub, as souveniers from the trip.
But yeah... overall this ended up being a really good day. Aside from the Roanoke trip, I also walked to Subway for lunch (because it's February, when all sandwich r $5.00 footlong), ate a bunch of mozzarella sticks for dinner, and went to the second meeting for the Nauvoo travel study trip, where I found out that food probably won't be anything to worry about (we'll mostly be eating out for dinner, breakfast is cereal and lunch is lunchmeat sandwiches.) And there's a good possibility that I won't have multiple roommates, which is always good (one of the guys' rooms will be a 3-person room, the other a 2-person.) Now the only thing to worry about is the drive over, and having nothing to do but wander aimlessly if all the Mormons decide to go into the temple during the trip (being a non-member, of course, I can't go in at all. Of course, I guess there's the possibility that some of the others don't have temple recommends, so there may be other people locked out of the officially-approved-Mormons-only zone along with me.)
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