M&M's, Princes, and Apples to Apples

     The dynamic Allison and Sarah Duo hit the town once again last night, this time with a very different mission. Originally the plan was for Melanie and Brian to join us for the 7:50pm showing of Prince of Persia, but they were detained at a previous engagement. Allie and I had no choice but to carry on without them.

     Smuggling in m&m's and snickers bars, we found our seat in the not nearly full enough theater. Prince of Persia had been Melanie's choice and Allie and I were not exactly sure how we felt about it.

     I knew it was produced by Jerry Bruckheimer who I absolutely love, so I had high hopes for the new release. If you're not familiar with Jerry Bruckheimer's work go slap yourself... and then watch National Treasure 1 & 2, Pirates of the Caribbean 1, 2, 3, soon to be 4, Pearl Harbor, or Remember the Titans. Just to name a few of his movies, not even including any of his t.v. shows. Anyways, my opinion of the movie can be summed up in one fairly concise sentence: OMG GO SEE THIS MOVIE. The previews did not do this film justice, and I fear it will do poorly in the box office because of it. The previews promise an incredible amount of CG animation and appears overpowering, but there is a lot more to the story intermixed with the animation additions. I fully enjoyed it, will probably see it again, and will definitely be purchasing it. My apologizes to anyone who goes to see this and is less than thrilled, but everyone has their own movie preferences. Just ignore the previews and give it a chance.

     After regaining our composure from the surprisingly fantastic movie, Allie and I decided to give Julie a call, knowing she would be out of her church college group by then. Julie has invited us several times to meet her church and CRU friends so we took this opportunity to put some faces to the names she has told us about. By the time Allie and I arrived at In-N-Out [with the help of Maggie, Allie's GPS] the group had decided they wanted to move locations. Being the good friends that we are, we got back into the car and followed them to Calvary Chapel Santa Ana.

     There we played Apples to Apples and Allie kicked butt. Though my red "cheap motel" and "eyes" cards earned my only green cards of the game [which I was quite proud of], it was fun getting to know some of the people Julie hangs out with. Allie and I ended up staying an extra round after Julie left, which was a tad awkward but I was waiting for the perfect opportunity to use my Cheap Motel card. It came, and I conquered.