Double Dosage of Italian!

I'm going to keep this post short - I just wanted to sum up my day before I forget. Trin and I had originally planned to see The Lake House at the Silvercity today, but an email invite from our mutual friends Brock and Scott gave our plan a spin in a different direction! Instead, we went to see 'Click' starring Adam Sandler, a story very loosely based on the well known Dickens tale, The Christmas Carol. Except this time Scrooge is represented by a budding architect (Sandler) who forever makes the mistake of placing work before family. One day when he is feeling particularly stressed with his life, he is given a magical remote by a mysterious gentleman (Christopher Walker) in a Bed Baths and Beyond store (wonderful publicity for this store, I'm telling you!) that has the power to control everything in Sandler's universe. While at first this naive architect believes that its powers are limited to switching the television on and off, and opening the garage, he soon realizes that its powers extend far beyond that of your average household remote. It was an enjoyable movie probably because it had its roots in a classic novel, but beyond that, Sandler's performance didn't really strike me as moving, and it was only near the end when the tone of the movie became more serious that it actually began to interest me. Either way, it was an enjoyable enough watch and I haven't really lost out since I had a free movie ticket to use up.

Afterwards, the four of us went to a little Italian restaurant near the cinema. Trin and I chowed down on a bacon, mushroom and garlic pizza for $16.50 while Scott had a garden salad and Brock had pasta with meatballs. This was followed by a tasty portion of tiramisu - a first for Brock apparently. It wasn't a bad little place but everything was overly priced. All in all, it was a fine day. I always like catching up with people I haven't seen in ages. In a way, it's more fun that seeing them everyday because you have that much more going on in your own life to share that the conversation never really runs out! Anyway, that's a wrap! Ciao!

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