It's Elementery

Last night we found out how long it takes to drive to the Megaplex 20 in West Jordan. It was 10 minutes to 9:00 PM and I was playing a video game when I suddenly had a thought and blurted out "We should have gone to see a movie tonight." My wife "We still can." Me "We would have to hurry." It turned out that there was a showing of "Avatar: The Last Airbender" in 3D at 9:20 (approx 30 minutes). So we bought our tickets online, threw on some shoes, jumped in the car and were on our way to Salt Lake within 10 minutes.

I was trying to drive quickly, without risking a ticket. I was also going over the first Avatar movie, I had seen in 2009, in my mind. For the record it took about 27 minutes to drive to West Jordan, get our tickets, get to our theater, find some 3D glasses and take our seats. 7 minutes is pretty much the same amount of time it takes to get through all of the previews so it worked out pretty much perfect.

I have to say I was surprised that they had already made a sequel of Avatar since they just released the last one on video not that long ago. I may never understand why, but they recasted all of the actors, changed the setting completely, and started the story in a way that it didn't even pick up where the other one left off. The only thing I can think is they are doing some fancy film school thing like Star Wars where you go back in time to show how they got where they were in the last one. I guess I am just not sophisticated enough for the type of thing as I had difficulty following it. I finally decided to forget the first Avatar and just enjoy this one as it's own film. I figured I would have weeks to figure out how they go together after the movie is over.

The Last Airbender is the tale of a 100 year temper tantrum. King Air decides to grow up and finds out that Prince Fire no longer needs Air. King Air decides to join up with Princess Water (who is sporting a surprisingly falic hair doo...really...check it out), the arch enemy of Fire of course, to douse the flame of elementism. By the end of the movie King Air has learned to make his tattoos glow and princess water has died her hair darker.

I was a bit disappointed in the "3D". I really didn't compare to the first Avatar movie. I kept feeling like I was not seeing much "3D Action" so I kept pulling my glasses off and sure enough it wasn't. At least they had the decency to make it so the whole movie was visible through the 3D glasses unlike Superman....LAME. The movie went by fast though and the special effects were amazing.

RattleSnake Rapidly Soaked

I got to spend my Independence Day weekend with a few of my cousins this year. It was something we don't get to do very often, but something I do hope we can make happen more frequently. Usually I only get to see my cousins whenever there is a wedding or funeral so it was nice to just get together and have fun this time.

We went to Lagoon on Friday. We did have to break a few speed limits to get there in time to take advantage of the $5.00 off coupons and free drink coupons, but only some buy in front of us got nabbed by the cops so no harm done.

We spent the first half of the day taking my cousins to the kiddie rides. Oh, they had so much fun. We started them off easy with a simple little whale ride that just goes up and down like a see-saw but soon they were riding the wild kiddie rides over and over. By the end of the day my Cousin was dragging her dad on to some big kid rids that even I wouldn't go on. they would come off the rides with the biggest grins you ever saw. It was soooo worth it!

I didn't ride my myself except for the bumper cars of course. I love the bumper cars. I got some good rams in on my cousins and visa-versa. We also went on the save Ferris wheel. I was having second thoughts while we were still in line but I brushed them off. We rod the Ferris wheel up to the top and it is really high. I also didn't know before hand, but the Ferris wheel is kinda like the tea cups at Disney land in that there is a wheel in the middle so you spin the carriage...as if being 10 stories off the ground with only 2 bolds between you and certain death wasn't enough.

We ended the day by riding the rapids of the rattlesnake. The girls caught the brunt of the waterfall so I couldn't really ask for more there. Then we had ice cream. Yeah, it doesn't really get much better does it? Last 4th of July will go down as one of the best July 4ths I have ever had. I'm so glad they all made the trip up here.

Motorcycle Momma

I have been around the block a few times, so when I see something that I have never seen before I have take it in. Since it seems to be happening less and less I find myself savoring those moments and almost making mental snapshot of the incident. Well as luck would have it I had one of those moments recently.

Wendi had run into a local business and I remained behind in the car as usual. Main street and its traffic was passing me by. It finally got warm enough for all of the motorcycle enthusiast to bless us with their antics. You would think that we have motorcycle gangs sometimes, but I digress.

Many times the man will drive and the woman will sit on the small seat behind him (often called the "female dog" seat). If the woman is really in to it the couple will invest in a 2nd bike so that they can ride side by side making eyes at each other. The latter is the scenario that I observed on this particular occasion. Neither the man or the woman was wearing any protective gear, which in and of itself wouldn't be such a big deal except for that the lady was PREGNANT!!! Yeah, and not just a little pregnant like 7 months along big and pregnant.

I'll just go ahead and give that a bit to soak in.