Cupcake Fail & Valentine's Day Movie Premiere

Wednesday really wasn't that exciting for me.  I went to my advertising class where we sat and listened about advertising for two and a half hours.  Next week our prof says he is taking us to an exhibit of the 100 items that have shaped society.  That should be interesting.  I'm not used to his teaching style of lecturing and using absolutely no visual aids.  You really have to listen and it doesn't help that his accent is so thick.

After class I ran to the stationary store to buy some post cards and a journal for my art class.  I got a pretty good deal I think.  I was hoping to get those postcards sent out today, but maybe not.  Art class was held in the British Museum and that place seems really cool.  There are a lot of old wonders to look at.  I will have to go back there because as a class we only focused on a very small amount of artwork.  It was awesome to see the Rosetta Stone and part of the Parthenon though.

The British Museum

After leaving the Museum, Joe told me of a cupcake place that was supposedly close by.  We searched for the better part of an hour and couldn't find it.  It was a total FAIL.  I had really started to crave them after he mentioned sweets, and then let down when we couldn't find them.  Story of my life.  Joe swears that we will win though.  Sometime while we are here we will find the cupcake shop on Bloomsbury St. and the other 4 cupcake shops and show them who is boss!  But for now the score remains cupcakes - 1, Joe & Rachel - 0.  When we got back to Vandon House everything became instantly perfect because I discovered that I had a package.  It was from my parents and contained all the essentials like pickles, pickle chips, hot cocoa and chocolates!

The real exciting stuff was yesterday.  The European premiere of the movie Valentine's Day came to Leicester Square.  Three of us got out of class at noon and went straight there.  It was only two tube stops away so we were really hoping for good spots, and luck be known, we got em, sorta.  They seemed like good spots but we found out that if we had been only 20 ft right of us we would have got a ton more signatures.  The actors liked to skip us, but I'll go into detail in a bit.

So we arrived just after noon and people from the Central program slowly started finding us from 1-3pm.  It was freezing outside.  Luckily the package I got the day before also contained a throw blanket, so I wrapped it tightly around me.  Good timing Mom and Dad!  They didn't role out the red carpet until 5:45ish but the tween British girls behind us felt the need to try to shove to the front at 4.  There was almost a mini throw down.

The stars arrive right about at 6 and included Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, Topher Grace (Eric Foreman from That 70s Show), Jessica Alba, Hector Elizodo (Driver from The Princess Diaries), Emma Roberts (Nancy Drew), and Director Gary Marshall (He directed Pretty Woman).  Topher went straight to the media but Ashton and Demi went to the crowd first.  Demi went inside before getting to us but Ashton came to us and stopped signing just as he reached the Iowa girls.  I yelled at him "We're from Iowa!" and Held up a makeshift saying just that and he paused for a second before saying "Really?  What are you doing here?" and then he moved on.  Sad day that I didn't get his signature.  I did get Topher's and Gary Marshall's but the rest all skipped over me.  Bailey got pics WITH Topher and Emma Roberts.  Lucky girl.  Now for the Pics!

Director Gary Marshall.  After he signed my sign that said "We're from Iowa" he offered up that he was from New York.  He was really such a sweetheart!

Ashton Kutcher.  Sorry Demi was inside already.

Topher Grace!!!

Emma Roberts.  The girl is so small she barely hit 5'6'' in 5'' heals.  She signed the girls' stuff on either side of me but not me.

Hector Elizondo.  Nice Guy, but skipped over me for signatures.

This is the best I could get of Jessica Alba.  She really didn't come to close to us.

When we got back we were all so exhausted and cold so we basically ate a huge warm meal and then I crashed like none other.  Today we went to Greenwich.  Update you on that very shortly.

Pip Pip Cheerio!