Lee Family Vacation ‘09: An Easy-Going Day

Sundays are supposed to be a day of rest, right?  Well, we took that to heart.  After a lazy morning, all 3 of us and the Seatons headed out for a glutenous lunch of Mexican food (for which we all paid the price later…).  After roaming a West-Town mall for a few hours, we paid *WAY TOO MUCH* for matinee tickets to see the new Pixar flick, UP.

Part of the exorbitant ticket prices was due to the fact that the movie was being shown in digital 3-D.  Sort of made up for the prices.  But I will say that the movie was fantastic!  Pixar continues to amaze me with their improvements in animation and story-telling.  Though I will warn those of you who haven’t seen UP that it is quite emotional.  The first 10 minutes alone are like a tear-jerking hit to the stomach.  Ahh…

After the movie, we picked up some groceries and I made dinner for everyone.  Cream cheese stuffed, bacon wrapped chicken breasts with a cream of mushroom and Monterrey jack penne mac and a side of California style veggies.  Everyone seemed to enjoy the fat-filled carnage, eating past their fill.  : )

We wrapped the evening up with video games.  The ladies played Rock Band 2 with us.  At one point, Phil made a beer run downstairs.  Since he was playing drums, we decided to play a little trick on him.  We picked Metallica’s Battery (Master of Puppets, hell yeah!).  That song is amazing, and amazingly difficult.  We put him at Expert level.  For any Rock Band aficionados out there, you’ll know that drums on Expert is about impossible.  HOLY CRAP was that drum part insane.  Phil gave it the old college try and soaked his clothes with sweat to prove it.  We were all laughing so hard we couldn’t play our own instruments properly.  Good stuff.

I’ll leave you all with a moment of beauty from yesterday.  While we were in the grocery, it rained.  Since they were scattered t-storms, the sun came right back out.  As we exited the store, we witnessed a complete double-rainbow.  Simply beautiful.  I only had my cell phone for taking a photo, so this pic doesn’t really do it justice.  But I’m sure you can fill in the pixelated gaps with your imagination!  (And with that I say adios until tomorrow, ya’ll!)

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