The
Christmassyness that is. I know. I cheated. I started a day early. Victoria and I saw the new Christmas Carol movie yesterday. You know, the 3-D Disney one with Jim
Carrey?
We very much enjoyed the 3-D glasses but I tell you what -- that movie was
scary!!! Seriously! Obviously, I know the story pretty well. I've seen the Mickey one and the
Muppet one and I've seen the stage production and I know that Scrooge gets haunted by ghosts, which equals scary. BUT since this was produced by Disney, I sort of expected it to be a little bit more light-hearted like the other ones I've seen. No such luck. The ghosts were scary and since it was 3-D... things were flying at us and we were a bit jumpy.
Fortunately, there weren't many other people in the cinema so we were able to just talk, which made it less scary, and we had loads of sweets to snack on. Probably a few too many...
Back at the house, Victoria helped me to make a pumpkin pie (her first ever!!!) and then we bundled up with some blankets in front of the TV. We watched
Scrooge, the 1970 musical with a very young Albert
Finney as Scrooge. It was MUCH more cheerful than the other version of the story we had watched earlier in the day and we were both feeling quite
Christmassy afterwards.
It was so much fun to have a sleepover, but it felt a bit strange being the "host" considering this isn't even my country. I think that's another good sign that I'm feeling quite comfortable here and that makes me happy. The great part about being the host was that I got to use the "
Mountford motto" and say "
I insist!!" so that Victoria couldn't get away with trying to pay for everything like she usually does ; )
We very much enjoyed the 3-D glasses but I tell you what -- that movie was scary!!! Seriously! Obviously, I know the story pretty well. I've seen the Mickey one and the Muppet one and I've seen the stage production and I know that Scrooge gets haunted by ghosts, which equals scary. BUT since this was produced by Disney, I sort of expected it to be a little bit more light-hearted like the other ones I've seen. No such luck. The ghosts were scary and since it was 3-D... things were flying at us and we were a bit jumpy.
Fortunately, there weren't many other people in the cinema so we were able to just talk, which made it less scary, and we had loads of sweets to snack on. Probably a few too many...
Back at the house, Victoria helped me to make a pumpkin pie (her first ever!!!) and then we bundled up with some blankets in front of the TV. We watched Scrooge, the 1970 musical with a very young Albert Finney as Scrooge. It was MUCH more cheerful than the other version of the story we had watched earlier in the day and we were both feeling quite Christmassy afterwards.
It was so much fun to have a sleepover, but it felt a bit strange being the "host" considering this isn't even my country. I think that's another good sign that I'm feeling quite comfortable here and that makes me happy. The great part about being the host was that I got to use the "Mountford motto" and say "I insist!!" so that Victoria couldn't get away with trying to pay for everything like she usually does ; )
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