What team are you for?

ECLIPSE......................a must see!

Finally, we made our way to see Eclipse! I know I know it has been out for almost (2) weeks, but we were waiting for our daughter's friend to return from her summer camp so she could join us!

Our daughter wanted to represent her team in the form of a t-shirt. This resulted in her Dad hauling her all over town in an effort to find one. It was a totally dry run, but fortunately when he and I stepped out to Toy-R-Us to purchase a gift for a friend we ran upon the last (2) Team Jacob shirts in the girls sizes.

I must go on record and say Eclipse was my absolute favorite book out of the Twlight Saga and while I wasn't a big fan of the first movie. In fact, I thought it was bad that I forced myself to pick up the books, though a reader I am not. I am glad I did as the movies can't begin to tap into the depth of the novels, each one was better the the one before.

We eagerly awaited the release of New Moon and we were not disappointment, it was much better than Twlight. Eclipse has built upon that foundation providing the non-readers with more dialogue in turn providing the viewer with a clearer understanding of what is happening and why it is happening.

Of course all of this is really lost on the "tweeners" who line up in mass to view this movie. The biggest question on their mind is "whose team are you on.....Edward or Jacob?" You can tell by the shirts our girls are sporting whose team they pledged their allegiance.

Unfortunately we will have a bit of a wait before Breaking Dawn is released. The break is good, it will give her Dad and I an opportunity to scout out some cool Team Jacob gifts for Christmas!

Potter.....Harry Potter

On Saturday night we were able to score tickets at the Mall of Georgia to see Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. As an added bonus my cousins M & M as I affectionately call them were able to join us as well. My uncle had just been released from the hospital and so my Mom spent time visiting with him and my aunt and this provided M&M with a few moments of free time.

I really enjoyed this film as it had many of the same traits, which I really enjoyed in the very first film - comic moments. We found ourselves laughing at Harry, Ron, Hermione and the rest of the gang as the plot unfolded. I will miss seeing these films, but alas I must admit we have every one on DVD so I guess anytime the mood strikes us we can have a Potter marathon!

Up left us a little down!

Tonight, I took my daughter and her BFF to see the movie Up! I thought it would be a light hearted tale, which contains great 3D animation after all it was created by Pixar. What I failed to take into account is all roads lead to Disney, which means someone (usually the mother or main female character) will meet a tragic fate usually death. Yep, should have seen it coming, but alas I did not and so within the first five minutes of the movie I was already saying to myself "Man, this movie is a downer."

Now before I chalk this movie up as a total lost let me say it did have some amusing moments. I along with my group found ourselves laughing out loud several times, however the overall "down" theme ran throughout the course of the movie. For me the up moments were a little few and far between, which left me thinking I should have picked another movie versus this one.

Oh well, live and learn. The evening wasn't a total loss we did get to eat lots of buttery popcorn and even scored raisinets for our candy choice. You know everything is better when popcorn is involved!