07/25/2007
Time Flies...
...when you're having fun.
Well, we haven't just been having fun. I've spent more hours than I care to think in my craft room cleaning, sorting, organizing and purging. (Gotta love FreeCycle!) But, I am almost done (whew!) and look forward to some crafting time tomorrow. Check back for some pictures of the finished projects.
Recent fun for the kids: going out to lunch (Panera), out for ice cream (Randy's), and having friends over. We also saw Night at the Museum. I was never in a hurry to see this movie but I actually liked it a lot. (The preview clips with the movie threw me. I have this thing about monkeys. They give me the creeps. I don't know why.) Anyway, we also saw Ratatouille. Great movie with wonderous animation. I'm always blown away by great animation and want to know more about how the movie was done. I checked out the official Ratatouille site, but didn't find anything there. You can definitely see the stamp of Brad Bird, who also directed "The Incredibles". Several of the characters have Edna-like elements to them. (I think Collette is a younger, prettier, much taller and slightly softer version of Edna.) That's a good thing to me, because Edna was my favorite character in The Incredibles (Although I'm glad I didn't get named Edna - which is what my father wanted to name me - eek!.)
We've got the first leg of our NJ trip planned. We're stopping in Columbus the first night. We'll just make it a relax and hang out at the pool evening after a long day in the car. The next day we're stopping at Hershey, PA to do the "sundown special" at Hershey Park. It's Hershey's 100th anniversary this year, which makes it kind of special. The next morning we may do some sight seeing around the town, then head off for Aunt Jean's house in NJ. While we're there we may go into NYC to the Museum of Natural History. I've always wanted to take them there and seeing Night of the Museum has piqued Jessica's interest. Just planning the trip out has been arduous enough (trying to please everyone when no one else wants to do any work in researching/deciding - I feel like the Little Red Hen!). I haven't yet worked out the entire trip.
Off to my craft room to finish cleaning so I can actually MAKE something in there tomorrow! :-)
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Good luck! I haven't seen Ratatouille yet, but I think we'd all enjoy it. I'll probably wait for the DVD though :)
Have a great trip! The MNH in NY would be a great place to visit, for sure!
Posted by: Gwyneth | 07/25/2007
I felt the same way about Night at the Museum...I had no desire to see it when it was in the theater, but then we rented it through Blockbuster.com and I really liked it! So did Brendan. We haven't seen Ratatouille yet, but we definitely will eventually.
Posted by: Courtney | 07/31/2007
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