Birthdays, Movies, and Vacations
Today was my mom’s birthday so for the second Saturday in a row (last week was celebrating my dad’s) we went out to a nice steakhouse to eat dinner. I always almost get the same thing: an order of calamari (unless I know from previous experience that I hate it) and a filet mignon cooked medium-well with fries. Not exactly a cheap meal, but it tastes so, so good.
While we were going to be out eating dinner, Holes was going to be on Disney Channel. That’s one of the few movies in the category of ones that I contemplated seeing when it was in theaters but never did, and I haven’t ever seen it since it came out on DVD or started airing on TV so I recorded it and started watching when we got home. It’s a movie based on a book by I believe the same author as Hoot, but it’s a stranger movie than Hoot was. There’s a lot of time jumping for flashbacks which can make it a little hard to follow. Probably not a movie I’d have added to my collection if I had seen it initially (just as Hoot isn’t either), but I enjoyed watching it.
One of the topics that came up at dinner was the fact that my dad is leaving tomorrow for Rome. This led to a discussion of how my mom would like to go there, and then I chimed in with the comment that if we ever did take a family vacation there, I’d want to go on a Mediterranean cruise. We’re doing Australia next summer, but my dad said that we could do that as a graduation trip the following summer. We then continued onto how it would be cool to do an African safari, and that semi-jokingly got penciled in for the next summer (2010). It appears that my research is in order for the next few years worth of family vacations.
Finally, during the credits of Holes, I saw that Sigourney Weaver was one of the main characters. I had no clue that she was that character, but it reminded me of Galaxyquest. Therefore, I’m going to go watch that movie seeing as how it’s one of my absolute favorites in my collection.