Family Road Trip
April 27, 2008
- Location: Cracker Barrel, Mount Holly, NJ
- Date: April 27, 2008
- Description: small red crane with gold olive branch on one wing
I gave my brother and his wife this crane one or two months ago, and they ended up leaving it this weekend. I’m pretty excited. My whole family went to Delaware to visit with another brother and his family for my nephew’s third birthday. I’m not kidding — it was my whole family. Most of them live in Connecticut, so it’s wasn’t that far of a drive, only 4-5 hours. From here, it’s 7-8 hours, and I couldn’t justify driving all that way when I’d just seen them a few weeks ago. So they were all in Delaware. It’s probably good that I didn’t go. We drove each other crazy on the family car rides when we were kids. I can’t imagine it would be much different.
My sister-in-law placed the crane and took the picture, so if you think it’s bad, you’ll know who to blame (it’s not, if you’re reading this, sister-in-law). And apparently, the waitress was privy to the whole scene, so my brother and sister-in-law “greased her palm to keep her mouth shut.” Excellent. I wonder if she was the one to pick up the crane. If I saw some crazy couple taking pictures of their dirty dishes, I’d want to know what they were doing too.
I find that I’m incredibly sensitive to scenes of violence on TV and in the movies, particularly war scenes and sexual abuse. I usually get nightmares. (I always thought nightmares would stop as I got older. No such luck.) As you can imagine, this has affected my taste in movies to the point where I watch light and fluffy films all the time. It makes me a joy to be around in a group setting, let me tell you. Everyone loves a chick who enjoys “Enchanted” and has never seen “The Godfather.”
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cassie | April 27, 2008 at 9:24 pm
I personally loved Enchanted. It’s on our list of movies to buy when we’re not poor college students anymore.
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Poppa-oo-mow-mow | April 28, 2008 at 7:10 am
I noticed that the crane that was left at the Berlin train station has been removed. The golf ball is still there.
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Q Finder | April 28, 2008 at 9:15 am
To Cassie: I loved it too! Well, not the ending so much, but definitely parts of it. I didn’t like how certain characters didn’t grow at all throughout the movie, like James Marsden’s. Did you notice that?
At Poppa-oo-mow-mow: That’s great! I thought maybe that one would be there for a long time since it was in such an out-of-the way place.
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cassie | April 28, 2008 at 9:49 am
I did notice that some characters were pretty flat. But I think it’s something that you have to just accept with Disney movies.
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kate | April 28, 2008 at 9:05 pm
You got nightmares from disney movies. who are you kidding?
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Q Finder | April 29, 2008 at 8:58 am
To Kate: I know! It was just that one movie. We won’t mention that ever again, thank you very much.
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Familiar face | April 29, 2008 at 10:08 am
I’ve still never seen the godfather, and that’s apparently extremely bad since the place where I studied acting is where they all began and that movie is supposed to be some supreme achievement for the method. whatever, i get nightmares as well.
And I think part of the point of Enchanted was that James Marsden’s character was never going to change, and that’s why Gisele really wasn’t meant to be with him. Because her character was changing and he couldn’t. However, I also think he was completely brilliant in the film and at work we quote him in that movie every other day about. Soooo I might be the wrong person to talk to about that…
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Q Finder | April 29, 2008 at 10:32 am
You make a fair point about Enchanted, Familiar Face. In terms of role models for kids, though, I don’t think either of the lead females are someone parents can point to and say, “yes, she’s strong and independent.” Maybe that’s my real beef with the story.