Yesterday it rained. Which was perfect, because we needed a beach-less day to run all sorts of errands. We went into town (Beaufort) to get everything done. We are not a family who likes errands or shopping at all. So, to make it worth our while, we made sure to fit a trip to the movie theater in for a rainy day matinee. We saw Monsters University. It was absolutely HYSTERICAL beyond hysterical to watch this movie as a family of five who lives on a university campus. The bambinos got almost every joke. Like, they seriously got the jokes. College-related-jokes that were obviously geared to the older bracket of the audience. They know so much more about college life than most kids their age. We laughed and laughed (them laughing at the movie, Braydon and me laughing at the movie, Braydon and me laughing at them laughing at the movie). We all loved it. (And we were all happy to be going home to “our” beach house instead of our on-campus-home tonight! LOL! It is nice to get a break from university life.)
Leaving the theater there was a photo op with a Monsters University “ID” that they had affixed to the door. I’m sure that many kids like having their photo taken in the “ID,” but it would probably be the adult viewers that would really get a kick out of it. Most younger kids would probably not even understand fully what a college ID is all about. The bambinos, however, fully got it. They thought it was hysterical. They do, after all, have actual university IDS, and use them daily (they need them even just for swipe access to enter the building we live in). We made sure to get all three of them photographed with Monsters University IDs. Probably very few people understand just how funny/unique/hysterical this all is…. probably only other families who are living (or have lived) on university campuses with younger children. The whole afternoon — the movie, the IDs, the conversations in the backseat of the car afterward — the whole thing was SUCH A RIOT! Now our kids have 2 university IDS! Lehigh U and Monsters U. Too funny!
P.S. in Meera’s photo ID you can sorta see that her right eye is a bit swollen and squinty and red. One of our “errands” today was to go to an Urgent Care clinic to have it looked at (in this picture it doesn’t look too bad because the medicine was already starting to work– but she woke up yesterday with a completely swollen, almost-swollen-shut, right eye). She had a mosquito bite on her eye, which apparently caused some sort of crazy swelling reaction. The poor thing just got over her hives (allergic reaction to something, unknown — FYI: don’t worry, we never gave her the prescribed steroid meds, she got over it entirely on her own with a little help from Zyrtec), and then had to have this happen. She has handled it all like a champ, but we are watching it closely. She’s on Zytec again, and it is working wonders quickly! She’s been prescribed steroids again, but we’re hoping she’ll once again kick this thing without us having to give them to her.
We haven’t seen MU yet…will probably see it when we go on vacation to beat the heat at the beach.
We did see Despicable Me 2. My kiddos LOVED it, I think I liked it the most though!
I took Jasmine to MU. I thought it had two good points–being gifted in something doesn’t matter if you don’t develop the gift/talent. Wanted to do something very badly doesn’t always work out if you’re not made with the aptitude (is that the right word?). But we usually have characteristics/abilities to compensate for what we are missing.
But beyond the lessons, the movie was just fun although I didn’t like Sully that much at the beginning. He didn’t seem like the Sully we know.
OMG sounds so fun!!
– Kate