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Movie Tavern Meetup

Wow!  Tonight was just soooooooooo much fun!

The people were super nice and cool.  The food was FANTASTIC.  The movie venue was REALLY REALLY NEAT...

And of course the best part was... THE HUNGER GAMES ROCKED!  I think Katniss Everdeen is one of my favorite all time characters ever.  She's the bees knees... or in this case... the tracker jacker's knees.

When I first signed up for the meetup there were about 10 people going.  But, since the time of the movie got moved up an hour  we lost 4 people.  Then as we were waiting one of the guys didn't show.  So there ended up being 5 of us total.  It was a good mix of people though.

Where to start?

Ok the name of the group was "Movie Chat".  SO that meant two things... 1. movie watching, and 2. chatting about it.  Both parts were pretty awesome.  Buuuuuuuut the movie part was DEFINITELY very really completely awesome.

When I first arrived two of the people were already there.  As you walk in there is a little bar/lounge area that you can order drinks and such on one side.  Then on the other side you can buy your ticket.  I bought my ticket and then hung out with the other two people and chatted.  The two others showed up soon after.  Everyone had a pre movie drink but I decided to wait until dinner and the movie to get mine, although when it came time to order dinner I decided I wanted some unsweetened iced tea instead with my burger and sweet potato fries.  They give you the choice of regular fries or sweet potato fries.  I'm a pretty big fan of sweet potato fries so I went with the potato of the sweet kind.  I'm kinda getting ahead here!  Let me back up...

Ok, well we went in and sat down in the very back row.  It was waaaaay more crowded than we had anticipated.  But, we still all got to sit together.

I will just say right now that The Movie Tavern is cool.  They show up to take your order before the movie starts and they have these little digital tablets that they just type/click it in on.  My guess is it goes right to the kitchen since our stuff came out really fast.  They also have these little service buttons so you can just click on it and then someone will come wait on you without you having to get out of your seat!  Pretty sweet.

So 2 of the people from our group ended up wanting popcorn halfway through.  All they had to do was push the button and then the guy showed up and they were just like... small popcorn please.

And then... a popcorn appeared.  Not RIGHT away... but a few minutes later.

It's full service!

One of the other group members made a joke that if they start offering catheter's so you don't even have to get up to pee... that would be too much.

I agree.

I'm fine taking care of my own pee.  Afterall that's why they have http://runpee.com/!

Well I ordered a nice old fashioned classic bacon cheese burger.  It was just awesome.  I ate and watched and hung out with my new meetup peeps.

Afterwards we all went back to the lounge and had another round of drinks.  I decided to have a mango smoothie something.  I just wasn't feeling alcohol tonight.  I'm sorta oddly disinterested in beer lately.  I don't know why.  It's weird... it's as if i've just completely lost any and all enjoyment from it!  I don't know... as I said in my previous post I'm just bored of it.  I don't know why or where it came from... but as of last thursday... I just... woke up friday morning and just didn't want anymore beer.

Weird.

I haven't had any since.  It's a mystery to me!

OK well this was the second part of the meet up.  We chatted about the movie compared to the book and then chatted about the movie scenes and characters and what we liked best etc. etc.  We also chatted about other movies and directors and actors/actresses and directors and such.  It was just a really fun and interesting conversation.

I thought the movie was just great.  I loved every minute of it.  I can't wait for the second one to come out.  I'll be anxiously awaiting the release of that.  I have a while to wait though... but it's ok.

Anywho speaking of movies.  I'm just fixing one more thing on my own little short film thing and I will have that posted up tomorrow morning first thing when I wake up!  Sooooo stay tuned.  Right now... I'm off to dreamland.