We spent a week in Hawaii for Christmas. The girls had never been to Hawaii before and I had not been there as a civilian. We stayed at the new Disney resort – Aulani west of Honalulu in Ko Olina. Guy Kawasaki has some photos here (thanks, Guy!) -> http://kdw.me/tlq0Zt We went to Pearl Harbor (twice), North Shore and drove into Waikiki. We highly recommend the Aulani Resort for a visit!
The girls and I went to Cars 2 yesterday with my nephew. We arrived just as the 12:45pm show was about to start – it was the 3D version, which I wasn’t too excited about seeing.
The original Cars movie was pretty entertaining and even though I’ve seen it at least a hundred times over the past few years – it’s one of those movies that I don’t cringe when it is selected (unlike Jack Frost, Frosty the Snowman and Hope Floats).
Unfortunately, Cars 2 was just like the majority of sequels out there – not as good as the original. The plot is a little too much and I was pretty surprised that there wasn’t more content around Paul Newman’s character, the Hudson Hornet since Paul passed away since the original movie was released. Arlyce also reminded me that George Carlin also passed away since the original movie – Carlin was the voice of Fillmore.
There are some pretty entertaining scenes and lines with Mater (voice by Larry the Cable Guy) being the major character in this version.
The movie is still worth seeing and not necessarily waiting until the Blu-ray/DVD release but in my opinion it just wasn’t as good as the original.
Caitlyn watching Sponge Bob on the iPad via Netflix (streaming).
Played this tonight with Arlyce and Courtney. Arlyce won the first game and her and I played a second game, since I’m dumb like that – she won that one too. Pretty good board game that involves a double deck of playing cards and poker chips so you can feel like you’re playing hold ‘em. They looked at me funny during the first game when I shoved my chips in, jumped up and shouted “I’m all in!”
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The family gift of a Microsoft Kinect has been a big hit so far and it’s a good workout for 40 year-old, overweight guy (that I know)…
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