A Most Glorious Day
This day was spectacular and successful. All that I wanted to achieve was achieved.
The day began at 10:30 am with a mission to find Castle Rock. Now I know I am a born and bred Christchurch lad which should mean I know where to find this iconic location. My only excuse is that my parents generally are the ones who have driven me there and I did not pay attention back in the day. So we began the search in Halswell. This is very wrong and I learnt that you cannot get onto the Summit Rd from Halswell (which is sort of the road I was looking for). That route being exhausted we then proceeded to Cashmere and up to the Sign of the Kiwi, as I believed I knew what lay to the right I took the left thinking at the least it would take us to rocks to climb if not Castle Rock. However, as the road progressed we came to more landmarks that we remembered and therefore eventually arrived at Castle Rock. We clambered around there for 2 hours or so (with much encouragement to get me past my fear and trepidation of heights). It then being lunch time we then proceeded to the supermarket and then took our food with us across the hills to Taylor's Mistake. It was stunning over there and afterwards we went for a delightful romp in the waves. So much fun. Beach is the good. And then what is the best thing after a soak in salt water? why, icecream of course. Goody goody Gumdrop :D.
Not only was this all achieved I then proceeded to a friends place to organise a 21st. Since I had only remembered about this 21st on Tuesday and we were meant to be organising it for next Saturday it was kinda imperative that a lot of the details such as invitations were finalised asap. I think we managed to capture everyone that should be there and if not tough luck (for him not for the people we forgot). We then discussed a few smaller details such as seating and food etc. To finish off this part of my day a friend and I drove about the city doing a mail drop for everyone that we had addresses for or thought we had addresses for :S. So not only did I have a great day in the sun I also achieved with success all that I needed to.
To cap off this most excellent day was the midnight screening of Narnia. I shall not spoil it for those that have not seen it yet but I will make a few brief comments so if you do not want to have your viewing of the movie sullied by my opinion then stop reading ... NOW. I thought that the director kept to the heart of the story a lot better than Jackson to LoTR. There was one scene of pain for me along the lines of the 'death' of Aragon in LoTR II. There were some fantastic scenes that I thought were incredibly well done. The child acting was not painful and the CG worked very well for the most part although getting animals to have facial expressions and to talk requires some major unrealistic distortions. I enjoyed with reservations and am waiting until I see it again until I pass judgement.
The day began at 10:30 am with a mission to find Castle Rock. Now I know I am a born and bred Christchurch lad which should mean I know where to find this iconic location. My only excuse is that my parents generally are the ones who have driven me there and I did not pay attention back in the day. So we began the search in Halswell. This is very wrong and I learnt that you cannot get onto the Summit Rd from Halswell (which is sort of the road I was looking for). That route being exhausted we then proceeded to Cashmere and up to the Sign of the Kiwi, as I believed I knew what lay to the right I took the left thinking at the least it would take us to rocks to climb if not Castle Rock. However, as the road progressed we came to more landmarks that we remembered and therefore eventually arrived at Castle Rock. We clambered around there for 2 hours or so (with much encouragement to get me past my fear and trepidation of heights). It then being lunch time we then proceeded to the supermarket and then took our food with us across the hills to Taylor's Mistake. It was stunning over there and afterwards we went for a delightful romp in the waves. So much fun. Beach is the good. And then what is the best thing after a soak in salt water? why, icecream of course. Goody goody Gumdrop :D.
Not only was this all achieved I then proceeded to a friends place to organise a 21st. Since I had only remembered about this 21st on Tuesday and we were meant to be organising it for next Saturday it was kinda imperative that a lot of the details such as invitations were finalised asap. I think we managed to capture everyone that should be there and if not tough luck (for him not for the people we forgot). We then discussed a few smaller details such as seating and food etc. To finish off this part of my day a friend and I drove about the city doing a mail drop for everyone that we had addresses for or thought we had addresses for :S. So not only did I have a great day in the sun I also achieved with success all that I needed to.
To cap off this most excellent day was the midnight screening of Narnia. I shall not spoil it for those that have not seen it yet but I will make a few brief comments so if you do not want to have your viewing of the movie sullied by my opinion then stop reading ... NOW. I thought that the director kept to the heart of the story a lot better than Jackson to LoTR. There was one scene of pain for me along the lines of the 'death' of Aragon in LoTR II. There were some fantastic scenes that I thought were incredibly well done. The child acting was not painful and the CG worked very well for the most part although getting animals to have facial expressions and to talk requires some major unrealistic distortions. I enjoyed with reservations and am waiting until I see it again until I pass judgement.
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