Movie Tuesday

Today's movie was Draft Day, starring Kevin Costner and Jennifer Garner. To be honest, I originally thought Draft Day was a baseball movie. Turned out it was football. This epitomizes my knowledge of or interest in sports. However, I'm very interested in Kevin Costner so I enjoyed the movie. It started out slow but picked up and had us all smiling by the time it was over. I would say Go see this movie. It's lighthearted with no mayhem or car chases. No animals were harmed.

Movie Tuesday

Noah...are they kidding? I cannot believe they spent all that money on such a contrived, idiotic movie. My cousin Betty warned us, but did we listen? Nope.

Sunday

On Sunday Mom came over for a repeat chicken fajita dinner and a movie. This time we went with a safer movie...Frozen. It was a very cute Disney animated movie. Mom walked up our new ramp to my craft room. It's not that easy a climb, but she did it and was amazed at the craft room.

Bad Movies

Friday night we brought pizza over to Mom's house and watched the movie I downloaded on Apple TV. The movie was American Hustle starring Christian Bale (Batman), Amy Adams and Bradley Cooper. When we saw the previews at the theater, I didn't think it would be very good, but since we didn't have to pay for it, I thought we'd give it a try. I would give it a C-.

On Sunday night Mom came over our house for dinner and a movie. I had downloaded Wolf of Wall Street (another movie that looked pretty horrible in the previews) and it was more horrible than I thought. It starred Leonardo diCaprio, who I like, but the movie was without redemption...an F. Plus, it was 3 hours long.

What is wrong with Hollywood?

Whose hair is that?

My hair stylist wanted to play with her curling thingy today...

Betty's Birthday

Betty is having a weird birthday this year. First, no cake because she and Jerry are off sugar. Next, she has a very bad cold (poor Betty). Finally, although we visited her for her birthday, we had to leave the morning of her birthday; but Maria and Jodi arrived on her birthday, so I guess it's okay.

Dennis and I had an appointment Tuesday morning to apply for the Global Entry system, then caught a plane to Gig Harbor for our visit with Betty & Jerry. We stayed until Friday morning and had a wonderful visit.

Dennis skied with Brent on Wednesday while I visited with Betty. She and Jerry showed me their Silver Strider website and explained the ground-breaking work Jerry is doing by expanding the race rankings by age. The rankings used to stop and 70, so a runner who was 80 would be running against runners 10 or more years younger. I was very impressed.








We stayed at the Best Western Plus in Gig Harbor and had a very nice suite. I kept eyeing the little stuffed shih tzu dog that was sitting on the counter in the room. He was a replica of a real dog, Parker, and was available for purchase with the proceeds going to charity. Need I say more? Parker (the stuffed one) now lives on our bed. I wish he was a real dog.













Betty, Jerry, Laura and I had an early dinner at a Mexican restaurant on Wednesday. We stayed long enough for Dennis and Brent to drive back from skiing and have dinner there, too. On Thursday, Dennis and I drove to Polsbo for breakfast and a visit to the bakery. We ate too much and then ate some more at lunch with Betty, Jerry and Laura at an Italian restaurant. Betty wasn't feeling well, so we ended our day together after lunch so she could go home and rest. We went back to the hotel and rested for awhile, too. Later, we went to the Galaxy Theater and saw Three Days to Kill, a spy thriller starring Kevin Costner. Sorry to say, the movie was horrible. Dennis thought it was produced by teenagers. I really like Kevin Costner and was disappointed that he didn't have a better production to star in. Oh, well.

Friday morning we met Betty, Jerry and Laura for breakfast at Panera. We had a nice visit and then drove to Seattle to catch our plane for home. We missed Maria and Jodi, who arrived at the airport earlier that morning (bummer).

Movie Tuesday

Today we saw Winter's Tale, a romantic fantasy loosely based on the 1982 novel by Mark Halprin. If you read the reviews, you probably will read the book and skip the movie. Because we only expect to be entertained for a couple of hours, we were satisfied. It had a flying horse, so how bad could it be?