![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
I've just returned from a Grand Adventure up into Canada. MONTREAL! Why, you ask? .... because that is where the closest IMAX theater is and I am hopeless.
I'd wanted to see the first Transformers film on the IMAX screen (there were a couple extra scenes! But mostly because GIANT ROBOTS ON MASSIVE SCREEN WHEE) but life didn't allow for it. This time, though... I got lucky! So we purchased our tickets online, then got on the road (an hour later than intended...) and, well. Drove in a mostly-northern direction.
And, for the first time in my life, we were hassled at the border to cross into Canada. Only a little, but still! Was truly strange. Metro'd into the city itself and marched to the theater, got great seats, had the best time ever. GIANT ROBOTS. MASSIVE SCREEN. Amazing sound and video quality! And then we basically turned around and drove home again, and got hassled at the border coming back in (but, of course, that one is to be expected, and it wasn't as bad as it's been before), stopped and had dinner at a cute little diner which served delicious food, and... now I am back! And it was awesome and both my parents agree that it was pretty awesome (my mother had seen it before, but my father had not), and basically it was a lot of fun! I keep meaning to write a proper entry about my thoughts on the movie. It'll probably never happen.
In other news, my brother had decided he’d come down with H1N1 (they really couldn’t have come up with a better name? And they wonder why people still use “swine”?), but then found out strep is also going around, so maybe he’s only contracted that, instead. Either sucks. Ugh, I hate strep (I might hate H1N1, too, but having never had it, it’s hard to say). (And, of course, it's entirely possible he just has a cold or it's allergies or something. WHO KNOWS.)
And, meanwhile, outside, there is a cat wandering around whose meowing sounds startlingly like someone calling “Hello?” Like a kid, and just repeating it over and over. It's been out there since yesterday, aside from during (most of) the thunderstorm we had.
I'd wanted to see the first Transformers film on the IMAX screen (there were a couple extra scenes! But mostly because GIANT ROBOTS ON MASSIVE SCREEN WHEE) but life didn't allow for it. This time, though... I got lucky! So we purchased our tickets online, then got on the road (an hour later than intended...) and, well. Drove in a mostly-northern direction.
And, for the first time in my life, we were hassled at the border to cross into Canada. Only a little, but still! Was truly strange. Metro'd into the city itself and marched to the theater, got great seats, had the best time ever. GIANT ROBOTS. MASSIVE SCREEN. Amazing sound and video quality! And then we basically turned around and drove home again, and got hassled at the border coming back in (but, of course, that one is to be expected, and it wasn't as bad as it's been before), stopped and had dinner at a cute little diner which served delicious food, and... now I am back! And it was awesome and both my parents agree that it was pretty awesome (my mother had seen it before, but my father had not), and basically it was a lot of fun! I keep meaning to write a proper entry about my thoughts on the movie. It'll probably never happen.
In other news, my brother had decided he’d come down with H1N1 (they really couldn’t have come up with a better name? And they wonder why people still use “swine”?), but then found out strep is also going around, so maybe he’s only contracted that, instead. Either sucks. Ugh, I hate strep (I might hate H1N1, too, but having never had it, it’s hard to say). (And, of course, it's entirely possible he just has a cold or it's allergies or something. WHO KNOWS.)
And, meanwhile, outside, there is a cat wandering around whose meowing sounds startlingly like someone calling “Hello?” Like a kid, and just repeating it over and over. It's been out there since yesterday, aside from during (most of) the thunderstorm we had.
