The movie was great! The racing scenes were amazing. The rest of the movie was great too, but for different reasons. There is a lot of humor in it for adults that the kids won’t really get, in addition to the stuff everyone will laugh at. We spent a lot of time laughing.

After the movie we went to Arby’s for lunch. We all had a great morning.

I got to see Revenge of the Sith at 10am this morning. Juniper Networks treated my department at work to a showing this morning. I went in with low expectations.

For Episode I, I had very high hopes, and I was very disapointed. It seemed like a special effect fest, with a plot wrapped around it.

Still, my hopes for Episode II had still been pretty high. I figured that Lucas would do a better job this time. It was better than Episode I, but I was still disapointed. I never even saw it in the theather, I was it of DVD after it came out.

So Episode III rolled around today, and I wouldn’t even have gone to the theather to see it either, if Juniper hadn’t been taking us. I’m so glad they did! It was an awesome movie worthy of the name Star Wars. The special effects (for the most part) didn’t look like special effects. I never felt like I was looking at a CGI of a ship or a clone trooper or really anything. Ok, the whatever it was that Obi-Wan rides is kinda weak, but other than that the special effects were dead on. And they were in service to the plot, instead of in place of it. Oh, and the plot. The plot was excellent. Anakin’s fall from grace is handled very well and fits nicely into the story as a whole.

It was a great movie, and it brings a nice closure to the story as a whole. The six movies together now have really become the story of Anakin Skywalker.

At least we are still going to the get Firefly movie.

Then we headed down to the theater. I’d tried to prepare Xander for what it was going to be like. I explained to him how the screen was going to be very big and it was going to be very loud. We walked in and he saw the screen and he said, “What’s that?”

Daddy: That’s the screen

Xander: That’s a huge screen!

He did a wonderful job sitting while we waited for the movie to start. He’s only 4 years old, so he had to sit very far forward to keep his seat down, so he ended up sitting on my lap once the movie got started. He also spent much of the movie with his hands over his ears because it was so loud, but he was clearly having a great time. I hardly watched the movie myself this time, I spent so much of the time looking down and watching his face. He had a wonderful time and loved the movie. He said his favorite part was when the cars would go by and go “Zoom! Zoom! Zoom! Zoom! Zoom! Zoom! Zoom! Zoom!”

After the movie was over, we exited the theater and they had a “hands on” activity for the kids. Xander took a little bit of time to color himself a nice picture of a car. Then he went to claim his “prize.” He got lucky and won a full sized movie poster which now hangs proudly in his room..

After that we spent some time looking around the museum. Xander thought the SR-71 Blackbird was wonderful. “Daddy, that’s a big plane!”

There was also a indoor kite flying demonstration that Xander enjoyed watching very much.

Around Noon, we headed out and met up with Mommy and Mira for lunch at McDonald’s. After that we went for desert at Cold Stone Creamery, which was yummy as always.

Then it was home for about a hour and a half of quite time for everyone. Then we got Xander and Mira back up and we all finished watching Nextel Cup qualifying which we’d TiVoed yesterday.

Then Xander and I went outside to run around some since it was such a beautiful day. After about 10 minutes Xander decided he wanted to do some chalk drawing so we started doing that. Soon after that Mommy and Mira joined us outside as well. We all had a great time.

It really has been a full, rich day.

Oh well, no great loss there. The movie was great! I won’t go into too many details on it, but it was beautiful and the sound was amazing too! The screen was 6 stories tall. Racing on a screen that size is amazing.

It was a good documentary. I’m gonna try to take Xander to see it this weekend.

I’ll be feeling it out for taking Xander to see it this weekend.

Things not to do while watching The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

I’m off to see it tomorrow morning, as a work function no less. I love my job.

There is also a LowRes version if you don’t have the bandwidth or patience for the larger one.