Vacation 2005.3

[eve_prime]

I was waiting to post 'til noon, when the Register-Guard publishes the day's paper on-line, so that I could "borrow" the front page photo of the 1,041 people in Amazon Pool yesterday afternoon, but they put up the article without the photo. Not that we could find ourselves in the picture! We spent a couple of hours in the pool, expanding our respective sunburn zones, then walked over to Evolution Gaming -- a new store -- for a bit. I got to see Super Smash Bros. for the first time, and there were people playing a 5-person version of Settlers of Catan. Speaking of which, the developer of that game has made numerous others that were also for sale; it's going to be great fun when D. is old enough for these!

We had pizza for dinner, and we watched the live-action version of Thunderbirds, which mostly just made me sentimental for the marionettes -- though we did get a good laugh out of a line in the closing credits song: "It always looks so cool when spaceships come out of the pool." We also watched that brilliant Shaolin Soccer -- I never thought fractal9091 could laugh so hard at a "sports" movie! And we saw DragonBall Z (the whole plot was just chasing a monkey around a very small planet) and something called Samurai Champloo, which was pretty forgettable.