the bucket list

wednesday night stef and i decided to brave the crowds at leicester square in an attempt to get a glimpse of jack nicholson or morgan freeman at the uk premier of the bucket list. we arrived at the theatre in the square around 5:30 pm as gates were being set up to keep the crowds away from the doors of the theatre. with nothing else to do we decided we would stand along the gates just to see what was happening. eventually a huge red carpet was laid down and tons of reporters arrived at the scene. soon after that many more people started to arrive. we asked a guard what time the stars were going to arrive and he said sometime between 6:30 and 7 so we decided our spots were too precious to give up so we continued to brave the cold and wait for the action.

around 6:45 several mercedes pulled up and morgan freeman got out of the car right infront of us! ok, maybe like 15 ft away, but still really close. he made a bee line for the door and the was all the crowds saw of him. more cars pulled up with the producer and other actors from the film but you could tell the crowds really wanted to see jack! about 30 mins later a few more cars pulled up and jack stepped out of the car right in front of us, sunglasses and all. everyone began screaming his name and cameras began flashing like crazy. with nearly 10 bodyguards by his sides he walked around the gates and signed autographs and shook hands. we never thought he would come over to us but he did and because we didn't think he was going to walk in our direction we didn't have anything prepared for him to sign..ahhh.