next time, i hope it's johnny depp

i went up this last weekend to london to meet my mother, who is visiting me. we ran around and did a bunch of tourist-y stuff. we saw the two tates and the sommerset and rode the london eye (this giant ferris wheel type thing they installed on the thames that takes you high above the city and you can see for miles. and you feel like you're in a giant bicycle wheel, because it's built exactly like one. really neat).

and we ran into a movie star. you know, the usual.

so the last time i was in london, which was also my first time, i came across the filming of the da vinci code in this little alley i had decided to take. it was pretty random, some quiet little street i was using because it looked pretty turned out to be sectioned off to become a set. i watched the action for a few minutes, saw audrey tautou (one of my favorite actresses actually) and tom hanks and someone who i later found out was ron howard all working out the details of a chase, and laughed at my strange fortune of coming across that.

and this time, the same exact thing happened. my mom and i were wandering around, and we decided to take this random alley, and came across a blockade that sectioned off the bit of the street. this time it turned out the movie was the adaptation of the book atonement, starring keira knightley. we stayed and watched it for a few minutes, starring at the back of keira knightley's head for a while, and then wandered on, laughing at our dumb luck.

it turns out, when in london, i naturally gravitate toward movie sets with famous stars.

next time, i hope it's johnny depp.