Today was unbelievably incredibly awesome.

I'm not one to have good Valentines Days, so the fact that I had a good one today is made even that much more magical.

A few weeks ago, I purchased tickets to see this play called Three Days of Rain. I knew I was going to the matinee show, but for the life of me I couldn't remember what time it was suppose to start at.

So, I decided to try and get there by 2, figuring that the theatre was down in Piccadilly Circus, so if I was really early it wouldn't be hard to find something to do to entertain myself.

I get down there a bit before two and pick up my tickets. The show didnd't start until 3 and I hadn't eaten yet, so I wandered across the street to Starbucks to get some hot chocolate and a sandwich.

I got my hot chocolate really quickly, but they completely forgot that my panini was on the grill thing. So I stood there for like 5 minutes waiting for my sandwich and them serving other customers (I would have reminded them, but they were REALLY busy so I just stood silently to the side and waited since I was in no great rush). Eventually, they remembered my sandwich and as a way to say sorry, they gave me a voucher for any free drink of any size. So next time I go to Starbucks, it's free! Huzzah!

Then I went back across the street to the theatre. I didn't think they'd want me to eat my sandwich inside, so I ate it outside (it wasn't that cold) before going in. I had JUST enough money for a program (which comes in handy later).

I went and found my seat (THRID ROW OMG) and then was casually searching for my purse to find my phone and turn it off when I found 3GBP. Conveniently, this is the exact amount needed to purchase the ice cream that the sell between acts. Even more conveniently, this particular theatre was selling haagen-dazs, which is my FAVOURITE kind of ice cream. So after act 1, I bought vanilla (my favourite flavour) and I was so damn happy. It was great.

I forgot to mention that this particular play that I was seeing it titled 'Three Days of Rain'. It opened only four days ago and stars one of my very favourite actors: James McAvoy.

You might remember him from films like Penelope, Becoming Jane, Atonement, Wanted, Chronicles of Narnia, The Last King of Scotland, or Wimbledon. He's a mindblowingly amazing actor...also incredibly beautiful (more so in real life, I swear. I couldn't take my eyes off of him).

And in this play, I got to see him in his underwear :)

Also in the play was Nigel Harman, who I wasn't familiar with beforehand, but apparently is on this TV show here called 'EastEnders', which is hugely famous and popular and whatnot.

After the show, which was SO INCREDIBLY GOOD (and which I'm going to see again with Molly when she comes here in two weeks!) I decided to search out the stage doors.

One of the fun things about London is that it seems every venue has the stage door marked with a big sign. In this case, it said "APOLLO THEATRE STAGE DOOR"

Also there were like 10 people standing around outside waiting when I got there.

That was another big hint.

and OHMYGOD YOU GUYS I MET JAMES MCAVOY AND HE WAS SO SWEET AND PRETTY AND IT WAS SO INCREDIBLE. Security was very clear that we weren't allowed to get pictures with the actors, but we could take pictures OF them. So I got these:

How adorable is he? Seriously? I wish I had a better picture of him for those of you who don't know what he looks like. He's incredibly gorgeous....

Anyway, after him I met Nigel Harman, who was so incredibly sweet and funny.

Our exchange went something like this:

Me: I loved your Brooklyn accent, it reminded me of home.

Nigel: Brooklyn? I was going for Australian!

Me: Well then you're terrible and you need to work harder!

Nigel: Thanks! That's the best news I've heard all week!

It was wonderful (and for the record, he really was going for a Brooklyn accent--he was kidding about the Australian thing).

In that last picture, he's stumbling on the sidewalk. I posted it because it's so ridiculously adorable.

I didn't get to meet the girl, Lyndsey. I spoke to some other people who had seen the show and met the cast before and they said that Lyndsey doesn't usually come out for the meet'n'greet thing, which is silly but whatever--I'd rather meet Nigel and James if I had to choose. :)

ALSO I got their autographs, which is where the whole "it's a good thing I bought a program" thing comes in to play:

Sorry it's not properly rotated--I'm too lazy. Plus you can still see the important parts--the signatures....:)

After the show and the meet'n'greet, I fought my way up the street to the tube (Piccadilly Circus is crazy on weekends! There was a live band playing by the fountain and everything!) which was wonderfully uncrowded, so I got to sit down and revel in my good fortune.

Then on my way home from the tube stop, I bought some food at the grocery store for my dinner, and gave my change to the wonderfully sweet homeless man that usually sits out front.

I still can't get over how sweet the homeless people are here. Like,at home they yell and harrass you and it's kind of scary, but here they are all just wonderfull nice and say "please" and "thank you" and call you "darling". I've given more money to the homeless guys here than I do at home purely because of how incredibly sweet they always are to me.

Yes, today was definitely a wonderful day. :)