How well I remember the day, but not what the date was. I had been given as gifts the first and second CDs of the Lord of the Rings. I had never watched them as i had a plan in mind. I would wait for the third portion of the three, the return of the king to come out, and then I would have a day of the story with my two grandsons. The movie, the Return of the King was released in December of 2003. The boys were out for Christmas vacation, so I put my plan in motion. The boys were to be at our house so I could start the fellowship of the ring at 8:00A.M. This movie is 2 hours and 58 minutes in length. Yu might as well call it 3 hours. After we watch it, we had a quick lunch and watched the Two Towers. It is 2 hours and 59 minutes in length. You might as well call it 3 hours.
Then at 3:30 P.M. we jumped in the car and drove to the theater to watch the Return of the King. It is 3 hours and 21 minutes long.
When that finished I dropped the boys off at their house and drove home.
When I got there, Martha told me that the movie Gladiator was showing at one of the local theaters. Guess what, I got her in the car and we went and watched Russell Crowe in Gladiator.
I think it took days for my eyes to recover, and I will never do something like that again. The total was 11hours and 21 minutes. It wasn’t a world record, but I was proud of it.
