Mamma Mia!

I saw Mamma Mia! last weekend and in my opinion anyone who is interested in it should see the play AFTER they see the movie or see only the play. I was really psyched about the movie and was highly disappointed. The girl who played Sophie had a good voice and I have always liked Christine Baranski. Pierce Brosnan is a good actor. I'll leave it at that.

I also saw Hellboy II and The Dark Knight. I loved the first Hellboy movie and thought the second one was even better. The Dark Knight was really good. I wish that hadn't been Heath Ledger's last movie. I've always thought he was a good actor(well, at least since I started watching his movies) but he was REALLY good in The Dark Knight. I forgot it was him after a while. He was an excellent villain. Heath, you will be missed.

I will never blog as much as Robin or Tim

This is the pot giving a great big shout out to the kettle! Yo! What up? You know who you are. Once again I don't have much to talk about but thought I should say something so here I am. The only really exciting things that have happened recently are a couple of vacations. In June my dad and I went to Las Vegas. We had a blast! And for 4th of July a friend and I went to visit my folks in Colorado. A good time was had by all.

Let's start with the Vegas trip. I think I gambled maybe $40. I lost it, of course. But I did play for a really long time on that $40. I played video poker. I would probably do a lot better if I actually knew how to play poker. You think? Other than that we went to 3 different shows: Mamma Mia!, Cirque du Soleil's Ka (pronounced "Ka" (tee-hee)) and Blue Man Group. Mamma Mia was wonderful. I can't wait for the movie to come out. I still can't believe they cast Meryl Streep in one of the lead roles, though. What on earth were they thinking? Anyway, if you are an Abba fan you need to see this play/movie.

Now, as far as Cirque goes, I loved it but dad...not so much. Of course it helps that I've seen the DVD's of most of their shows and this was the second show I'd seen live. It was more of a story than a circus which is what some of their shows are. I'm not even going to try to describe it because I just can't. Some of the things they did were SO cool! I realize that the "death defying" tricks aren't really because they have things to land on but still...I wouldn't do most of that stuff even if you put five safety lines on me and 200 feet of padding below me. Nuh-uh...not going to do it.

Last...Blue Man Group. Everyone knows who they are and what they do so they don't need much description. It was just really, really fun.

Next was the trip to Colorado. The family got back from a trip the same evening we got to Colorado. Mom cooked for us which is always a good thing. We spent most of Friday walking around downtown Denver. I really like that city. Just thought you'd like to know. Anyway, that evening we went to the Rockies game and if you want to know how fun that game was you should look it up on the net. It was the best baseball game I've ever been to. They came from way behind to win 18-17! It was so cool!

The next day we went to a winery...because we could and then we drove up in to the mountains. Well, not literally in to the mountains because that would hurt. We drove part way in to Rocky Mountain National Park and went to Bear Lake. It is a beautiful lake and I would have loved to spend more time there but someone had the great idea of hiking up to the waterfall. Let me just say that if I were in any kind of shape this hike would have been nothing. Apparently my lungs were not too happy with me. Go figger. However, the minute we got to the top of the waterfall it felt as if it were all worth it. It was gorgeous! I tried to take pictures but they don't do it justice. We had a really good time and were completely exhausted when we got back. I'll spend this weekend making up for lack of sleep and constantly going.

That's about all my excitement for now. I'm making curtains this week but I don't think I'll be blogging about my curtain making expertise in any future blogs. I hope everyone has a great weekend. Oh...and kettle, you and the Mrs. have a good time on your vacation.