I found a new site on which to fritter my time away. It's called Goodreads, and is a great way to keep track of books read, reading, and to read. You can read reviews about books and write your own. Hopefully it will be a good source to find new things to read (granted, that shouldn't be much of a problem for the near future, as evidenced by my book queue).
In other news, we're going to California on Saturday, and will be spending three days next week at Disneyland. Needless to say, Jess and I are pretty excited. We're preparing Disney soundtracks to listen to on the way there, as well as a lot of comedy stuff by Bill Cosby. We also picked up some books on CD from the library--Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales and Truman Madsen's Presidents of the Church. We'll see what else we take to listen to.
We had a fun Memorial Day weekend with the family up at the condo in Midway. It was sure nice to just relax and take it easy. We saw the new Indiana Jones movie (more to come on that), went swimming, and looked at some expensive houses. It's been sort of hard to get back to normal life this week, but we have an escape in less than five days... :)
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Latest media reviews
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: We found this one at our public library, and I had to get it. (Turns out there are TONS of good movies over in the kids section, and we only just figured this out a week ago--3 of the 4 movies we checked out were from over there.) CCBB (for short) is a fun little musical that I watched a lot when I was little (Gma Jones had (has?) grundles of movies that she recorded on VHS that we would borrow all the time, and CCBB was one of them). It's a movie about a fantastic car and the adventures that its owners have in it. The movie has wonderful songs, memorable characters, is funny and witty--it's basically everything a good movie should be. Dick van Dyke stars as Caractacus Potts, an unsuccessful inventor, and does a great job. I highly recommend this movie, and we may even purchase it ourselves. We'll see. :) We brought it with us on our campout (Had and Jeanette have a little portable DVD player) and Lucy loved it so much that she wanted to watch it twice. Just watch out for the child catcher--he's a little scary for the little ones.
Twilight: Yeah, I read it. Yeah, it only took two days. Sheesh. The book is a "vampire romance" and is pretty engaging. I thought it was ok, but as I mentioned to my sisters-in-law, I could have done with more "vampire" and less "romance". Both of them said that I will probably like New Moon more (they liked it less for that reason). I'm about a third of the way through, and it's still sort of iffy. As it stands, I'll probably never read the books again after I finish them. I'll stick with lame things like Jurassic Park (right, Maren?). I guess it just goes to show that I'm a boy.
Twilight: Yeah, I read it. Yeah, it only took two days. Sheesh. The book is a "vampire romance" and is pretty engaging. I thought it was ok, but as I mentioned to my sisters-in-law, I could have done with more "vampire" and less "romance". Both of them said that I will probably like New Moon more (they liked it less for that reason). I'm about a third of the way through, and it's still sort of iffy. As it stands, I'll probably never read the books again after I finish them. I'll stick with lame things like Jurassic Park (right, Maren?). I guess it just goes to show that I'm a boy.
What a weekend!
As you can see from Jess's last post, we went camping this past weekend with Jess's sister and brother-in-law. We went down to Capitol Reef, a place I haven't been in over 10 years. The change of scenery was awesome and the weather was mostly cooperative. We stayed sufficiently warm (a good thing, as the temps were about 20 degrees below the normal averages).
We went for a small hike down Capitol Gorge to see the pioneer register (where several pioneers carved their names into the stone when the came through back in the 1840's) on Friday, then hit Goblin Valley on Saturday. It was my first time in Goblin Valley, and I liked it a lot. Hadley (bro-in-law) told us about his previous campouts there and games of steal the flag. I can't imagine a better place for that.
Food was delicious--spaghetti, peach cobbler (dutch oven), dutch oven potatoes and pancakes for breakfast, and hot dogs for lunches. Tasty, and we got to break in our dutch oven we got as a wedding present (thanks, Ottesons!).
We flew a kite that I won at a friend's birthday party, which was tons of fun until it got stuck in a tree. And we had to leave it there. Blast.
Our first camping trip was a success, and I look forward to the next one. Jess was quite the trooper and did so much to help the trip work out. I love you, babe!
We went for a small hike down Capitol Gorge to see the pioneer register (where several pioneers carved their names into the stone when the came through back in the 1840's) on Friday, then hit Goblin Valley on Saturday. It was my first time in Goblin Valley, and I liked it a lot. Hadley (bro-in-law) told us about his previous campouts there and games of steal the flag. I can't imagine a better place for that.
Food was delicious--spaghetti, peach cobbler (dutch oven), dutch oven potatoes and pancakes for breakfast, and hot dogs for lunches. Tasty, and we got to break in our dutch oven we got as a wedding present (thanks, Ottesons!).
We flew a kite that I won at a friend's birthday party, which was tons of fun until it got stuck in a tree. And we had to leave it there. Blast.
Our first camping trip was a success, and I look forward to the next one. Jess was quite the trooper and did so much to help the trip work out. I love you, babe!
