Friday, December 30, 2005

Another Friday night

We spent the evening watching a movie as usual. However rather than take out Desney prepared us all sorts of snack food (hot and cold) to eat during the movie (hot sausages, pizza bits, chicken wings, crisps, salsa sauce, nuts, …).

This evening we watched one of the movies Arlene had bought for us when she was here: Million Dollar Baby. I loved it and thought it was a beautiful movie. The rest of my family was baffled as to how the movie won so many awards. There was no action to speak of, the lead characters weren’t beautiful, there weren’t any well-defined bad guys and good guys, there were no spectacular special effects, there weren’t even cute one-liners throughout: where is the merit?

After the movie, and after Alex had gone to sleep, Jessica and I played a game that Arlene got me for Christmas: The Da Vinci Quest. It’s sort of a trivial pursuit with references throughout to Da Vinci, the Renaissance period, the quest for the grail, various relevant mythological references, … It was quite fun and I think Jessica did better than she thought she would. I won, of course, but it’s only the first time we’ve played.

Next time we'll play it with Arlene!

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