182/365 - Eclipse

It's another hot day today, which means we all hang out inside, lazing about.
I ran early this morning, and even the coolest part of the day felt so hot and humid. Thankfully, due to the lack of recent rain, I found many lawn sprinklers along my route, which cooled me down.

But all that early morning running left me tired in the afternoon and I did something I rarely do - I took a long (2 hour) nap, only to be woken up to go to see the movie of the weekend - Eclipse.



The movie was decent, although Eclipse was my favorite book out of the Twilight Series, due to the cooperation between the "clans". A nice way to spend a hot summer's afternoon.

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79/365 - New Moon DVD

I couldn't let the weekend pass without highlighting the DVD we bought Saturday afternoon. No, we didn't go to the midnight premiere parties [we're too old]. We subsequently watched two times on Saturday and once on Sunday.



And we're still "Team Jacob" here. Erica still prefers Edward in the books, but prefers Jacob in the movie.

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45/365 - Afternoon at the Movies

And today's movie choice - Percy Jackson and the Olympians - The Lightning Thief.


picture taken outside the movie theatre

The verdict - enjoyable, but different from (what I remember of) the book. Maybe I should re-read it now.

We met up with two other families. I sat with Jill and Kim while Brian and his friends sat all the way up front in the first row.

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36/365 - Movie Night

Friday night has increasingly become "social night" for Erica and her group of friends, who manage to attend some sort of gathering together. Tonight, the venue was the movie theatre, even with the snow storm and opening day crows. They went to see "Dear John" and each admitted to crying during the movie.



I felt fortunate that we have a 4 wheel drive SUV with tonight's snow accumulation and subsequent blowing and drifting. I drove out to the horse stables in the Toyota Corolla, and nearly ended up in the ditch! Winter is certainly still with us.

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200/365 - HP and the Half Blood Prince

We went to see the 4:30 showing of the newest Harry Potter movie. We have been waiting for a long time, especially since the studio moved the release date from November, 2008 to yesterday.

We enjoyed the movie, even though there were some deviations from the book (as expected). A great set up for the 7th and 8th movies.

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