"Night at The Museum 2"

Well it was over the top. Usually happens with a second
film. So many things wrong with it where to begin?

Firstly when 'Larry' goes to visit, he is left alone at
night, in the New York Museum, with the front door unlocked.
He no longer works there and has no keys to lock it up.
Also there is no replacement night guard for him!!!

New ground, the tablet is taken to Washington DC. The
exhibits in the archive come to life! We see lots of
guards as 'Larry' sneeks down to help out 'his friends',
but not a one, when there are singing cupids and a ranting
Egytian Pharaoh! Who though he live thousand of years before
Napoleon and Al Capone, seems, to know all about them, but
nothing about Oscar the grouch and Darth Varder!! It's
either all or nothing!!

As for the damage done to the museums, not a word about
it or stolen exhibits in the papers the next day?

As for there being working batteries and fuel in the
rockets and planes, well COME ON!!

Suspending disbelieve is one thing, but this is really
asking too much.

Movies NOT to see at the Cinema.

"My Sister's Keeper" and "The Time Traveller's Wife" are
best seen in the privacy of your own home. The first is
a two box of tissues movie and the second a one box.

Each has a totally unexpected ending which really bring
on the tears!

I have read both books and just hope the movies live up
to the standard that the books set.

"Pet Sematary"

It only hit me today, when working in the shop, that
the title of this book is WRONG!!!

My dictionary defines 'cemetery' as a public burial
ground.

A 'seminary' is a traing college for priests, but
nowhere in the dictionary is the word 'sematary', so
the question becomes did Stephen King make up this
word, or this this just some strange U.S. spelling?

Clean Out.

Did a 'small' clean out of the books on the 'spare'
bedside table and took 15 of them to the shop.

I was pretty pleased about this, but both Meg and
Cliff seem to think it is no big deal.

Of course there are about 50 still there. (The
pile is about a meter deep!)

I will start on the shelves this week. If I can
get rid of enough on the shelves then I will put
some of the bedside books on the shelves!

After all I have enough reading there for about
six months (two books a week.) so I will try not
to bring any more home. Till after Xmas at least!

Wedenesday At Last!

Well we were on the road by 10 a.m. and thankfully the
weather was a pleasant 25 degrees.

At Sea Lake I took over the driving as Cliff got a cramp
in his leg.

We were stuck behind a large truck all the way to the
main highway. As we all said there was a hay truck that
had passed by some time that morning as the truck was
kicking up all this hay onto the windscreen.

When we got to calder Cliff took over again and we filled
up. On the way back from the toilet I did a double take
the front of the grill was almost completely covered in
straw. Thankfully I had noticed it otherwise it might
have caused the engine to overheat.

A clear run through the city and we were at Kath's by just
after 6 p.m.

They had my car there and I transfered my things from
Cliff's car to it and drove home. I never thought about
it but I could have driven keith home and saved Cliff
all tired, and not up to thinking too much at that stage.

Melbourne Cup 2009

The day was barely 27 degrees. A relief from the last
three days, but Kirsten was wrapped in her big coat
and she even had goose bumps. She said she 'was cold!'

Terry and Grant were leaving and we all drove out to
Wentworth where we were going to take photoes of the
Darling and Murray merging.

Ciff was the lead car. Audrey was in the front. We
were just out of Wentworth when Cliff's mobile phone
rang. It was Terry to tell us that they had a flat.
Rather than go on we went back, which turned out to
be a good thing as when Grant was changing his tyre
he saw that his undercarriage holding the tyre was
badly cracked.

Turned out he hit a roo on the way down and he thinks
the damage was done then. He said the carriage would
not have lasted the 1,000 kms back home so it was a
good thing the tyre blew then as it prevented a more
serious accident further out.

They headed back to Audrey's VERY SLOWLY. While we
went on and showed Kirsten the Murray-Darling
Junction and took lots of Photos.

Then we went back to Audrey's.

I was tired and took Kirsten back to the unit as she
wanted to swim, but she was only in the pool for about
15 minutes when she came back and said no it was too
cold. So the both of us had an afternoon nap!

Kirsten Steers "The Melbourne"

Well between Kirsten and myself we talked Cliff into
staying till Wednesday.

Not too hard when it was still 40 degrees outside and
hotter in the car and to drive in that heat for nearly
nine hours with the air conditioner broken was not
something anyone was looking forward too.

Kirsten said that she loved the pool but hated the heat.
I pointed out it was not possible to have one without
the other.

Cliff drove us down the the Mildura wharf, which is where
Kirsten and I caught the steamer from.

It travelled at 4 kms per hour, which was its' max. speed
on the river. So we went as far as the Apex Park and back.

Which required being lowered and then raised on the river.

The Captain said it is a five minute drive from the wharf
to Apex park! At our rate of spped he said that if we
continued down the river we would reach Wentworth in 8
hours! (It is a 35 minute drive from Mildura!).

Kirsten was not the only child on the boat and the Captain
allowed the kids to take turns steering the boat. Kirsten
received a certificate for her effort.

We went shopping and had a quiet afternoon at Audrey's.

Cliff and I went to the Spainish Bar and Grill (we made
resevations, but it turned out athat on Monday night the
side of the restaurant that won the National Steak Award
is not opened on Monday nights!!! But we ate there anyway.

The steak I had was a Mallee steak which was quite tasty.
Cliff had the Porterhouse which we both thought was rather
bland.