March 6, 2010

  • Pies and Plans

    The kids and I went to see Bugsy Malone last weekend, a movie far stranger than I'd remembered. Which is going some, since I remember watching it on tv when I was about Seph's age and thinking it was weird then. It's a basic gangster movie, entirely acted by people far to young to be in a gangster movie. To adapt to the delicate sensibilities of the viewing public, instead of moonshine, the speakeasy serves sassparilla and lemonade (with a green 'special' kept behind the bar for those in the know, the ammunition for all weaponry is entirely dessert-based, and the getaway cars are pedal powered. Jodie Foster as the tough-talking chorus girl is fairly disturbing, as are the musical numbers which are entirely dubbed by adult singers, as far as I can tell.

    The finale of the whole thing was a pie fight in the parking lot, which you can see here:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWR1i52tDcs

    It's almost rodeo time, and we're getting busier every week, it seems. We went and planted trees with Campfire this morning, while Chance and Rone hit Home Depot for the free project. Seph is off at another sleepover, and tomorrow we've got a birthday party. The kite festival is also tomorrow, but the chicken coop needs finishing off (they're getting bigger, and louder), so we might have to skip that. I took the kids to UT this week for a Star Party, which is when they open their big telescope up on the roof of one of the engineering buildings to the public. We met up with some homeschooling friends and got to see Mars and Orion's Nebula. Seph also got to go to the Wildflower center and see a speaker from McDonald Observatory out in West Texas, and look at even more cool stars with her Campfire friends.

    So we've been up to some stuff. I'm hoping to take the older two on an overnight camping trip nearby sometime soon, but we'll have to see. With luck I'll fit it in before they go to Disney with Nanna and Papa, since that trip might be a hard act to follow!