Ice Age 3 in 3-D

Before their latest Sunday morning meeting Sean had told his Dad on the telephone that he wanted to see a movie. So, Sean's Dad rode his little motor-scooter all the way to meet Sean at the Peking Duck Shop as arranged at 8:15. The first order of business was breakfast. During breakfast Sean's Dad gave Sean a gift that contained discount vouchers for use at museums in Taipei County.


There was also a book that introduced all of the museums, large and small, in the county. It was the first weekend of the school summer holidays and Sean's Dad hoped that this would be valuable information for use over the coming weeks. Sean seemed to like it.


Sean's Dad had not allowed any extra time for the fact that it was the first weekend of the school holidays. So they had an unexpected long wait in line to buy tickets for the movie.


But, after the long wait, at 09:42 on Craig's Dad's watch they were offered tickets to the 09:40 session. Sean was happy because that session was not only in Chinese, more importantly, it was in 3-D.


Sean had heaps of fun during the movie and, once again, laughed as loudly as anyone in the theatre. He really has a lot of fun at the movies and other people often notice. On the way out, Sean allowed his Dad to take a photo of him wearing the 3-D glasses. Pretty cool, huh?


Then, there was half an hour of air hockey. Sean scored way too many own goals on this occasion. Sean's Dad won playing left-handed the whole way!


Due to a mix-up between Sean's Mum and Sean's Dad about where Sean was supposed to eat lunch. That meant Sean had to eat lunch purchased at a convenience store in the salubrious surroundings provided by the steps outside of a post office. Sean seemed quite happy about this despite the look on his face in this picture.


Just a few minutes before Sean's Mum was due to arrive to pick him up, Sean went inside the post office to have a look. The main part was closed for the weekend, as you would expect, but Sean found a machine that dispensed stamps.


He simply had to have one of the souvenir stamps that had a picture of the two pandas given to Taiwan by China last year. Luckily, Sean's Dad had plenty of change to put in the machine.


And, then it was time to part. Sean said he would like to see the new Pixar movie Up, that was not only featured on the little flyer attached to their movie tickets, shorts for the movie were shown in 3-D before Ice Age 3. So, Sean's Dad will almost certainly be required to take Sean to see that movie when it comes out at the end of this month.

Slumdog Millionaire

Sean and his Dad had a long-overdue get-together on Sunday. The first order of business, once the very sleepy-looking boy had come downstairs, was breakfast. A quick sandwich and cup of hot chocolate later and they were on their way to the movies.


While waiting in line waiting to buy tickets to see Slumdog Millionaire (Sean's choice), a lady waiting in line directly in front of Sean and his Dad reached into her handbag and pulled out a gift for Sean. Speaking in barely intelligible English, the lady told Sean that she is 76 years old. Why? We will never know.


As soon as they bought their tickets, Sean and his Dad had to run into the theatre. After the movie, Sean said he liked it but Sean's Dad thinks Sean mostly liked the funny parts, he became a bit fidgety during the dramatic parts. No popcorn or drinks during the movie meant that Sean was hungry right afterwards. He ordered a steak for lunch.


Sean didn't touch the soup or the salad that came with his meal but he got stuck right into the steak and the veggies.


Sean's Dad hasn't seen the boy eat so quickly for a long time. Sean finished his steak much faster than his Dad could eat his burger.


Sean's Dad really enjoyed sitting in the beautiful warm sun after a very cold ride out to pick Sean up in the morning. The weather had changed quite a lot while they were inside the theatre, warming up almost 10 degrees Celsius, but all good things come to an end. It was soon time to take Sean back to meet up with his mum.