Awesome. :)

Too bad Sarah’s on dial-up, she’s gonna love these. Hopefully I’ll remember to show her next time she’s over here.

Oh, then we also have this one, and this one, but I still like the other two best.

[sorry, photo got lost, but it was really cute!]

I took Elijah and Sarah to Burger King for lunch the other day while we were out and he got a kid’s meal (yes, I am to the point where I buy my kid a kid’s meal just for the toy so he’ll be quiet even though he won’t eat the whole meal) and she got a Big Kid’s Meal.

So, yeah, that was E’s toy. Sarah got this plastic Windu that you look up his… feet and see images from the latest movie. She was all pretending to be sad, “I want the Ewok!” I said, too bad, yours has small parts. ;-)

But then she kept getting ticked off at me because I kept calling it a Wookie.
“Here, ‘Liga, want your Wookie?”
“EWOK!”
“Whatever.”

I kept saying Wookie because at first I told him it was a Doggie because that’s something he knows how to say. ;-)

I am tempted to take this BK up on their offer of the whole set of toys, something like 30 of them, for $31 plus shipping. Little toys are good for the car and diaper bag, you see. They are better when E has never seen them before.

Rimshot also liked the Ewok and stole it from E’s room yesterday. He was lucky he didn’t chew it up before I got it back or I would have been mad. Stupid dog.

Yes, I have nothing else to report at this time.

Very good. :-)

And, I’m telling you right here, there’s going to be spoilers. But since this is my website, I can do that, so if you don’t like it, don’t read any further. M-kay.

So Friday when Steve got home, we rushed out to my in-laws’ and picked up Sarah and left Elijah there. We went to a neighboring town about 25 miles away. This is one of our three towns with a Walmart and movie theaters – remember, I’m “within a half an hour of everything.” But movies there are only $5. :)

We went to buy tickets first and found they were sold out for the 7.15 show that we had intended to see, but surprisingly, the 6.45 was not sold out. Steve’d told me that if the 7.15 was sold out, he didn’t want to go to the 10.00, that we’d try again next week; but he was still kind of mad that we were going to the 6.45 because he really wanted to go to Pizza Hut, and now we didn’t have time. Oh well, he got over it. :)

So we ate then went back to the theater and while the pre-previews were running, Steve felt it necessary to read a paper he’d picked up at the restaurant and I sat there and made stupid comments….
“Whoever designed this ad oughta be fired, it sucks.”
“What kind of a quote is that? Who cares who said it, it’s stupid!”
I love being a critic. :D

Okay but the movie… I really enjoyed it and so did Steve and Sarah. It was great getting the pieces filled in for the story, and, of course, in the beginning, you feel like you’re really there.

But I was a bit disappointed in one thing, and Steve agrees with me on this. We did not like the part where Anikan sealed his change to the dark side, where he killed the little kids. I think that the movie could have done without that and it would have been just as good and none of the storyline would have been lost. They could have just left it out and concentrated only on adults. Steve said, “with that right there, it ceases from being a kids’ movie.” Not that it’s necessarily a kid’s movie, but I think you get the point. And granted, you don’t actually see him kill the kids even if you do see them lying dead on the floor later, but it’s the whole concept of it. I hate it when innocent children are harmed in movies, especially when it’s not historical fact where it can’t be avoided.

After the movie, we were driving through Sonic for something to drink and Steve started saying that he wish he knew which of the original episodes he went to see in the theater because he remembers being in a theater and being upset (scared I guess). Like I told his dad the next day when we talked about it, I tend to believe him when he has a childhood memory because he doesn’t have many; he was in a car accident, him and his two brothers, when he was 18 (I think) and we do believe it has completely screwed up his memory. But his dad says he doesn’t think they took him to any of the originals. But he very well could have gone to Episodes V or VI as they came out in 1980 and 1983… Steve would have been about 3 or 4 and 6 or 7. I really doubt I got to see Episode VI in the theater. When I told Steve that his dad said he probably didn’t go, he got this look on his face and then said, “well, maybe it was ET or something.” Okay, not believing him on memories anymore… although I do know that his story about painting a van when he was little is true… that and the “spontaneous combustion” of the chair… now that’s a story for another post…

But other than that part with the kids, it was great, blast Rolling Stone and the San Francisco Chronicle for giving it a C and a C+. They think they’re all smart, but in reality have no clue what they’re talking about. Of course, we all know this is true of all critics. They know nothing…

I’ve decided I’d like to read the original books (none of those added series), though, so I guess I’m off to Ebay or Amazon.com or something…