How I did it: Tuesday, October 13th, 2009.

I took a comp day from work (on
what ended up being an extremely busy day) in order to make the trek
& made a day of it. He left right around 11am, me chauffering my
parents from northwestern Massachusetts to Brookline, a Boston suburb.
Though we went just a touch farther to Dorchester & stopped at the
Olive Garden there for lunch. Mom & I got the Mezzaluna plate with
chicken & dad got the Pork Milanese. All of which was excellent.
Back in the car for more driving around Boston, which wasn't bad, but
I'm glad I don't have to do very often. We got back into Brookline just
slightly after 4pm & found the parking lot. There, we played
musical parking spots as the first one had a meter that ate my quarter,
the second meter, though not expired gave no time readout, but third
time was a charm & fed that meter to just under 2 hours.
We
found the theater first right away. There was already a short stand-by
line formed at the door. So, with time to kill, we headed over to the
book store & wandered around there. Since I already had AB's book
(& all his others) I bought a mathematics book just for kicks. What
can I say? I'm a nerd. ;) Right inside the door, they had a huge
(cardboard) stand-up of the book cover. I'd wanted to get a picture,
but only had my cell phone at the time & people kept stopping at it
& blocking it, so I gave up.
Having been told seating
would begin at about 5:30pm, we left the book store at 5:15 &
headed back to the theatre where, after going ALL the way around the
block, realized that the ticket holders line was ALSO reaching into our
parking lot. *face palm* The standby line was just as long. We weren't
in line 5 minutes before we had atleast another 20 or so people behind
us. It was amazing watching the people gather, especially in the
standby line!



Check out my full write up, including pics & video here:

http://lonewolfette.blogspot.com/

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Oct 17, 2009, 09:17PM PDT | 2 comments | 2 cheers