Last month, as a way to celebrate my 25th birthday, I made a bucket list of things I want to accomplish or experience before I turn 26. I call it my list of “25 Things For My 25th Year,” and recently I was able to cross off the first completed activity!
#9: Have a Movie Marathon
This was probably the easiest thing on my list to cross off, but it was also one of the things I have been most wanting to do for a while. A couple of Saturdays ago, three of my friends and I got together for a light afternoon luncheon followed by a nonstop viewing of all 6 episodes of the BBC’s Pride and Prejudice. It was lovely, mainly because it was so nice to relax and enjoy each other’s company. I love watching any Jane Austen adaptation on my own, but it’s much more enjoyable to watch it with friends who are fellow Janeites :)
For our lunch we had typical afternoon tea types of dishes: cucumber sandwiches, tuna salad and toast, quiche, a vegetable platter, scones (red berry and chocolate chip), and sugar cookies.
Even though it was a beautiful spring afternoon, it was nice staying inside, snacking on tea and scones while laughing over Mr. Collins’s ridiculous manners and swooning over the quaint English countryside.
No, Mr. Collins…
I wouldn’t mind having another movie marathon later this year! Maybe something more action related, like Star Wars or Harry Potter :) Have you had a movie marathon with friends? I’d love to hear about it!
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Years ago I had a Die Hard marathon with my oldest daughter — is that action enough?! :) More recently it was a Lord of the Rings marathon. Harry Potter is my next one, planned when I have time with both my “girls” ….
Your luncheon looks like it was delicious!
Ohh Die Hard sounds fun too!
We did a Lord of the Rings marathon years ago, once all the extended editions had been released. Something like 13 hours long, I think? It was a blast.
Last year, I went to a movie marathon in a theater! We watched Thor, The Avengers, and Thor: The Dark World one after another, and it was amazing.
I’ll do a LOTR marathon after I finish reading the books ;) 13 hours sounds so long though! My husband did a Star Wars marathon once and it was longer than that but they took breaks to go swimming (it was July) and walk around.
A Marvel marathon sounds amazing!! I wish they did things like that in the theaters here in France.
I didn’t realize my theater did such things, but people that were at the Thor marathon were talking about how it seems they do this a lot — some of them had gone to a Harry Potter marathon there when the last movie came out. The theater did 2 movies every night for four nights, with the two parts of Deathly Hallows the last night. Now that I know they do this, I’m keeping an eye on their website whenever a franchise I care about has a movie come out!
Oh I would be keeping an eye out, too! I love movie marathons and midnight premieres :)
I’ve never done a midnight premiere, to tell the truth. I get really cranky if I don’t have sleep.
I’ve done quite a few. For the last Harry Potter film my friends and I even dressed up :) I was happy for a chance to finally be one of my favorite characters, Ginny. And in high school I worked at a movie theater where they would let staff stay late Thursday nights to see movies before they premiered the next day. It was before the midnight showings got really popular. It was hard to stay up that late though. I remember falling asleep during Superman Returns (probably because I thought it was awful haha).
I used to dream of working at a movie theater. Or video store, back when there were video stores :-)
Superman Returns was awful. I would have fallen asleep too.
It was my dream to work at a theater too :) I loved it. And I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought that movie was awful!!