Oxford & a Pricey Show

Today was our free day, so my friends Brittany and Laura and I travelled to Oxford to see the university.  There is a coach that travels from right around our corner straight to Oxford called the Oxford Tube.  It took a little over an hour to get there, and we didn't leave until about noon so we didn't have a whole lot of time to be there.  We went and saw the Ashmolean Museum, the Cathedral, the library, and wandered around the streets.  It was very fun, but soooo crowded!  I don't know if it's always like that or if something special was going on, but it was crazy!

Question:  How much would you pay to see Eclipse on a screen as big (not!) as this???

Me in the tiny theatre with no stadium seating! 

Later that night, we got back home and went to get some Italian food at this place called Zizzi's.  It was quite tastey.  Then we were planning on going to see Eclipse.  In Leicester Square there are a bunch of movie theatres and that is where they theatre was that they did the UK red carpet premier, so we thought it would be fun to see it there.  I bought tickets online before we left so we wouldn't have to worry about seats.  When we got to the Odeon theatre at Leicester Square, they told us it wasn't showing there, but it was at the Vue theatre around the corner.  A little confused, we go over there (we are late by this point) and ask them to look up our tickets for us. They say they have no record of us purchasing tickets.  A little frustrated we are trying to explain that we DID purchase tickets.  Then, a lady at the desk asked us if we purchased them for Leicester, and I said yes.  Apparently there is a town called Leicester about 3 hours away!  Who names a town Leicester AND has a place 3 hours away called Leicester Square???  So in the end we ended up buying another ticket to see it there.  

Ticket price number 1:  8 pounds (about $12)

Ticket price number 2:  10.50 pounds (about $15)

Grand Total Spent to see Eclipse:  18.50 pounds (about $27)

$27 for one movie!  It was entertaining, but I'm not sure it was $27 good!