Lisa's Blog

This week we finally ventured around the southern end of our new province.

And I'm sure it was really nice.

If we could have seen any of it.

Damn fog.

We did get a few photos when there was something other than fog visible, so here are a few shots from day 1.

Monty had a great time. Unfortunately he has to ride in the back of the truck, but there is a cap on the truck, and he has a big vari-kennel to ride in, with water, and the all the windows in the cap were open. We stopped when we could and let him have adventures.

This picnic area wasn't too far from Halifax. There was a busy beach on the ocean side, but in land, on the way to the outhouse, I spotted this little lily-pad covered pond.

Lunenberg was nice. The fog lifted and we found a shady spot for the truck so we could visit some shops.

The streets are very steep in Lunenburg and I was wincing watching the horses struggle to pull wagons of people down the hill to the water front. Do you think horses can get calf cramps? Look at this horse stance.

Jeff spotted the Bluenose II. It was stripped down and barely recognizable off to the edge of the waterfront in a boat yard. I didn't think it was polite to photograph her all naked like that so we didn't. That and we couldn't get a good camera angle.

There were lots of tourists all the way from Halifax down to about Lunenburg. Chester and Mahone Bay were packed with Ontario plates, a few B.C., New Brunswick, California, Florida, North Carolina, New York, Manitoba, and I saw one from Saskatchewan.

We stayed the night in Bridgewater. Luckily the hotel kept our reservation and had a room for us. They told Jeff another hotel had a fire that day and rooms were scarce. Unfortunately they didn't have a ground floor room that we wanted so Monty didn't have his crate to sleep in that night. I took him for a good walk to wear him out, but his sleepy time ended at 3am. After that, every noise made him want to growl at night and we'd have to pounce on him before he barked.

Finally, out of the 4 movies I rented on Friday, the last one was the best!!

I have heard Hot Tub Time Machine compared to The Hangover, and it wasn't even close to that funny, but it was hilarious and had me laughing and screaming out loud, and in one place, I almost suddenly vomited!

I love John Cusack in everything, so that alone made this movie a winner. And I didn't know that Chevy Chase was going to be in this movie - nice surprise.

Lots of laughs, but don't watch it if you consider yourself too mature for such humour
I am not, and laughed loudly.

4/5 stars!

Jeff's infamous Canadiens cap was missing throughout the playoffs, missing from Jeff's head, missing from all of our photos....

HAS NOW BEEN FOUND!!

We had scoured this house for days during the NHL playoffs to find the hat.

Jeff even moved on and bought another, although it paled in comparison to the glory of its predecessor.

Want to know where it was?

I found it behind my laser printer!

I watched Precious this afternoon. I think I felt like I had to watch it so I could vaguely keep up with pop culture.

I should have known better.

Anything ever recommended by Oprah is garbage.

And I think they all have the same story line.

Black young woman, repeatedly raped and beaten and abused and can't read and write finally finds salvation in an alternative school with a sweet patent teacher who will change her life.

But, as any Oprah favourite, it refuses to have a good ending because her father has impregnated her twice, and as a bonus, also gave her HIV.

Did I wreck it for you?

Good, don't watch it. It's awful.

Plus, I don't know if it was just for this role, or if the actress Gabourey Sidibe normally talks like this, but I could have used subtitles. She mumbled like she had a mouth full of marbles and I almost turned it off twice in the first 15 minutes out of pure annoyance. I easily missed half of her lines in this movie.

Who needs a movie like this? It's not a true story, so someone, somewhere (Oprah?) thinks that this is entertainment.

My rating? 0/5

Please remind me to stay away from anything with an Oprah recommendation!!

We watched The Messenger tonight. I would have given it a 3/5 stars, but the ending, or lack of an ending, bumped it squarely back to a 2/5.

The Messenger stars Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster as two army men who are selected to notify the next of kin when a soldier dies in Iraq.

I enjoyed the role that Woody Harrelson played but the movie just didn't leave me with anything.

Jeff was bored soon after the movie started and left the room for awhile to do other things.

Recommended for rental? Nah.