Vacation!
Just got back from my super-awesome family vacation! Woo!
Momdad, Jon, and I went to Virginia Beach along with Lucas' family and the Lehmans (Michael and Christian's family). We stayed in the same beach house we used last year, and it was excellent! These people are basically all family, and it's great to hang out with them. I also really like the house. I feel lucky for the chance to spend that long at the beach at a time, too. If you're only there for one or two days, and it, say, pours down rain all afternoon (happened one day while we were there) or is dangerously choppy (happened two days), then it's a huge disappointment and/or you end up trying to do the beach thing anyway. If you're there for a week, you can just hide out in the beach house on those days and read or watch Futurama with your friends.
Aaand, my friends came to visit! Becky stayed with us for a few days, Ashton came down for a day, and Erica and Ehren visited for an evening (all of these overlapping). Huzzah!
Random note: we found a shark's head on the beach. I'm still surprised I wasn't terrified out of my mind, seeing as sharks freak me needlessly the heck out, but I mostly felt bad for the poor thing. It wasn't very big, and someone had taken its jaws out. And the rest of the shark, I mean. It was just a head. I think I would have expected it to be kind of like finding a gun on the beach, and it was actually like . . . well, a dead animal.
Anyway. Yesterday, Momdad dropped me off in Williamsburg with Ashton and Ehren. We bummed around for awhile, then met up with Chuckles and his girlfriend Kendall, Erika, and Mark for supper. From there, we went to see Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. It was fun and strange - like no movie I'd ever seen before. Definitely fun, though.
Afterward, we went to Ehren's and proceeded to watch more movies. Surprising success in the highly-entertaining department! Here's what we saw:
Home now! Good times. Hope everyone else is having a great summer!
QUOTES!
Me: . . . so the voiceover says, "Pocahontas' kindness led to a lasting friendship between the settlers and the Indians."
Jon: The settlers and the good Indians, Nic. That was implied.
Lucas: The bad Indians were the ones who got smallpox, or died when you shot them.
Jon: Too soon, Lucas.
Lucas: I have a checkered past with Bruce Willis.
Momdad, Jon, and I went to Virginia Beach along with Lucas' family and the Lehmans (Michael and Christian's family). We stayed in the same beach house we used last year, and it was excellent! These people are basically all family, and it's great to hang out with them. I also really like the house. I feel lucky for the chance to spend that long at the beach at a time, too. If you're only there for one or two days, and it, say, pours down rain all afternoon (happened one day while we were there) or is dangerously choppy (happened two days), then it's a huge disappointment and/or you end up trying to do the beach thing anyway. If you're there for a week, you can just hide out in the beach house on those days and read or watch Futurama with your friends.
Aaand, my friends came to visit! Becky stayed with us for a few days, Ashton came down for a day, and Erica and Ehren visited for an evening (all of these overlapping). Huzzah!
Random note: we found a shark's head on the beach. I'm still surprised I wasn't terrified out of my mind, seeing as sharks freak me needlessly the heck out, but I mostly felt bad for the poor thing. It wasn't very big, and someone had taken its jaws out. And the rest of the shark, I mean. It was just a head. I think I would have expected it to be kind of like finding a gun on the beach, and it was actually like . . . well, a dead animal.
Anyway. Yesterday, Momdad dropped me off in Williamsburg with Ashton and Ehren. We bummed around for awhile, then met up with Chuckles and his girlfriend Kendall, Erika, and Mark for supper. From there, we went to see Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. It was fun and strange - like no movie I'd ever seen before. Definitely fun, though.
Afterward, we went to Ehren's and proceeded to watch more movies. Surprising success in the highly-entertaining department! Here's what we saw:
- Pocahontas, Princess of Peace, a Disney knockoff on a DVD of princess-themed Disney knockoffs that Ehren has. Has several dubious honors, among them "apparently not actually on IMDB" and "possibly less offensive than the Disney version." Would also win "more accurate than the Disney version" were it not for the voiceover line at the very end stating that Pocahontas' efforts led to "a lasting friendship" between the settlers and the Indians.
- Sands of Oblivion, which uses what's actually a pretty creative premise to avoid crazy spending on an Egyptian-curse movie: 1920s director Cecil DeMille, while filming the movie The Ten Commandments, imports some Egyptian artifacts to be props. Some of them turn out to be cursed, so he has them sealed in a tomb . . . on the filming site in Guadalupe, California. Cut to modern day: a professor and her team are excavating THE FILMING SITE, IN CALIFORNIA, when the tomb is accidentally opened. Mayhem ensues. (Bonus: Freemasons!)
- Delgo, a computer-animated fantasy with pixie-people, froggish people, and . . . orcs. Not terribly original, but surprisingly good if you overlook the comic relief characters, who are terrible bordering on offensive.
- Sherlock Holmes - but not the one you might be thinking of. This 2010 movie has dinosaurs, tentacle monsters, and a robotic dragon. It also has surprisingly good - no, really good - acting and dialogue. The only thing I didn't like was the decision to bracket the story with that, "I'm old and I'm telling you what I remember" business. What I mind isn't that it's been done, it's that I hate getting attached to characters over the course of most of a movie with the understanding that they're actually dead from the beginning - off-camera, no less. (And, as you'll know if you're familiar with Sherlock Holmes' canon, Really Old Watson means that Holmes is dead.) Still, this was so good that I might have to buy it.
Home now! Good times. Hope everyone else is having a great summer!
QUOTES!
Me: . . . so the voiceover says, "Pocahontas' kindness led to a lasting friendship between the settlers and the Indians."
Jon: The settlers and the good Indians, Nic. That was implied.
Lucas: The bad Indians were the ones who got smallpox, or died when you shot them.
Jon: Too soon, Lucas.
Lucas: I have a checkered past with Bruce Willis.