Another Blog entry already? This is getting ridickie-dockie. Guess your want to know about my latest antics, you little scamp!
So. Yesterday me and Chloe had the day off work together and decided to spend our last full day together where I'm not going to be stupidly busy. Did we do something romantic? Balls did we, we went to science world. The place wasn't too full of kids, so we didn't feel to out of place. The first section was a load puzzles, the kind of thing you get a gift and craft shops glued and chained to tables. Me and Chloe were a bit annoyed as we could only manage to do about half of them. There was a wheel chair race computer game thing, where you had to sit in a wheel chair and try and wheel it faster than your competitor. Next was a game where you and a friend (or a Chloe) had to both strap bands around your heads that measured your brain alpha waves- the idea is to clear your brain and relax, so you reduce your alpha waves. Chloe beat me on the first game by telling me how much I looked and acted like my dad to put me off. It worked. But I won the next two games. After looking at some optical illusions we headed upstairs to carry out tasks that included building a wee dam in a wee metal river, firing an air canon at flags, playing with a shadow wall. It was all good fun. Afterward we headed home, I quickly wrote the last blog entry. I showered, then we headed out for our final meal out together at Spaghetti Factory. The restaurant seemed to be full of English people, even our server was British, we some how made things awkward by not being able to hear what he was saying and not giving good responses to his banter. Which is the English way. At one point I thought we would all start apolagizing to each other. We felt guilty, and so left a big fat tip like North Americans would and went home to think about what we had done.
Today! I got up fairly late, watched some 'You have been watching' on youtube. Then headed down to the movie theatre, to watch the film Max Manus, a true story about a Norwegian freedom fighter during the Nazi occupation. Its probably the best WWII film I've seen in years, and completely different to most war films. The freedom fighters were constantly surrounded by there enemy, and constantly under the pressure of what would happen if they were caught. Max also accomplished a lot with his acts of 'terrorism'. For example, the Nazi's wanted to draft every 18-24 year old in Norway. So Max and his gang blow up the two places where documents were stored on were every 18-24 year old lived in Norway so the draft was canceled. There resistance efforts were so strong, they probably shortened the length of the war by a couple of months by destroying the transport links in Norway and stopping the Nazi's moving troops based in Norway to the front line. After that I headed home, made myself a curry, got myself in a tiz about greyhound buses, got more information on greyhound buses, and stopped my tiz. Thats pretty much it.
Tommorow is the last day team family will spend together. :-(
A great film. Defo one of the best films I've seen this year.... EDIT:- I forgot about Inglorious Basterds, that was better, but Max Manus is still worth seeing.
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