Lib has been suffering what we call in medical lingo, an ouchy back. Today was primarily the rest day of the vacation. Lib had several appointments and errands scheduled and was in no shape to be driving. Steven was working, so I gladly served as the chauffeur for the day. Driving in Seattle has left me with two major conclusions about this city: 1. Seattle is in serious need of some civil engineers 2. No one in Seattle cares about landscaping. After errands were completed we grabbed some pizza by the slice and headed to the Cinerama movie theater with Steven and their friends Dwyer and John to see the BFG.
Original Darth Vader costume at Cinerama
Roald Dahl was our favorite author growing up and “The BFG” was one our favorite books, so we couldn’t resist the chance to see it on the big screen. The Cinerama is no ordinary cinema. It’s owned by Paul Allen, one of the Microsoft founders who has more money that he knows what to do with. The lobby has original Star Wars costumes in it. The concessions included: fresh pretzels, chocolate drizzled popcorn (which oddly enough tastes like cocoa puffs), crafty beers and hard ciders. The chairs are huge and squishy and the screen is bigger than a standard movie screen. The movie was… okay. The imagery was good, the story was good, it was a little corny at times; but one of those wholesome, feel good movies.
We walked downtown for a bit and walked past the new glass spheres being built by Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon. Apparently he was going to build two of them next to the large Amazon tower he built, but the clever engineers figured out pretty quickly that is was an ode to his small junk and thus a third sphere was added.
