Early Father's Day

Hello everyone, this is Morry. It's my night to write the blog.

Today, we celebrated an early Father's Day. Tomorrow we are heading out to Mason, TX to see Rachel's family so we decided to spend a nice day today. I thought this morning we could see the movie Up as a family and then tonight I wanted to go eat at Home Slice.

Evan woke up a little before 8am which was good, in a way, because the movie was at 9:45am so we needed an earlier start. We got up and got him dressed and then Noah dressed and headed off to the movie theater.

The AMC by us has a deal that if you see a movie before noon on the weekends, it's $5.00 for each person, so it's a pretty good deal. They also offered something called a "super ticket" which means it's $8.00 for a ticket but you get $4.00 in concession items (or item I should say). We knew that we were going to get popcorn for Evan, Noah and me to share so it worked out well - we just got one of these "super tickets".

The movie was excellent. It was just terrific. Pixar just knows how to make a movie that is so much better than any other animated movie, like any Dreamworks movie. It's also better than most other movies out there. On a sidebar, we saw the Curious Case of Benjamin Button last night on DVD. Boy was that an overhyped movie. It was really long and boring. I also felt that Slumdog Millionaire was also very pedestrian compared to all the talk and build up. But Pixar knows how to make movies and this was one of the best Pixar movies. I'd rank it up with Toy Story (1 and 2) and Monsters, Inc - above Finding Nemo and WALL-E. The boys seemed to enjoy it. Noah did fairly well, he was a bit squirmy. He stuffed his pacifier into each of our mouths when we weren't looking. Then he'd giggle. Evan had me take him to the bathroom twice during the movie. There's definitely something to be said for diapers.

After the movie we went to Old Navy. Rachel got a $30 off $100 coupon and it was half off all men's clothes. So we made out.

Then we went to Chick-Fil-A because we had a coupon for a free milkshake for Father's Day. We all shared it.

We came home, had lunch and put the boys down for naps.

After naps, we went to Home Slice for dinner. We got to Home Slice about 6:50. They said it would be a 45 minute wait. An hour and a half later, they finally seated us. We didn't get our food until 8:50. The boys were incredibly well-behaved. I can't tell you how disappointed I am with Home Slice. They are my favorite pizza place in town and I don't know how you miss the time to be seated estimate by 100%. In fact, when I'm done with this blog, I'll probably email them and tell them my displeasure.

The boys are in bed now and it's pretty quiet. Tomorrow we have a big day so hopefully they get some sleep.

Until next time...