We ventured out to the beach at Boca Grande today, which is about an hour drive from my Grandparents house. The sand was full of seashells by the bucket full, and the weather was perfect with a slight breeze. The area around the beach was interesting because most of the houses had small inlets for boats. Looking at a map of the nearby town of Charlotte shows complex channels running everywhere, sometimes even forming circular patterns within a community. A lot of people here actually use their boats to get from place to place; they’re able to dock up to restaurants and businesses on the water.
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I helped Omar pick out a laptop at Staples. It’s a Compaq with a huge screen and all the toys. He won’t use half of the capabilities, but if he starts emailing people that’ll be good enough. It came with a years worth of Internet access through MSN, but annoyingly there isn’t a local number for his house in Florida. Tomorrow I’m going to give him a tutorial after setting everything up; I won’t have much time to train him, considering he hasn’t ever really used a computer before.
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I just got back from seeing Lord of the Rings in Charlotte. It was great—as expected. Fantasy style plots have the huge potential to be cheesy, but I never once thought that about this movie. I like the fact that they shot all three of them at once; I think it’s the correct way to do a trilogy. I’m left hanging for next year’s sequel.
I noticed during the previews that they’re starting to get really specific with the reasons for particular movie ratings. For example, I saw a movie in which it was rated R for “Vampire Violence”. My new game is going to be trying to find the silliest reason for an R rating.
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Omar in front of his house
Dad on the beach
Dad and Ike looking at seashells
Ike, Omar and Dad
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