Last night we went to Urban Park to watch Monsters v. Aliens. It was shown on one of those big, blow-up screens, and when the wind blew, they had to use a giant stick to ease it back up. It was like vertical curling.
My favorite part of the movie was the community party beforehand. There were college interns playing sand volleyball, kids running around and jumping over babies (well, a certain baby), and parents out talking. I knew some of the guys running the event, so I got to go chat with them.
A little boy (around 9 or 10) came around with a tin-foil covered pan and a roll of paper towels, asking, "Do you want some mumble mumble mumble?" A bunch of people had said no, but I was curious. I asked him again what he had, and he was giving away key lime pie! His mom had made it. He opened up his pie tin and there was a pie, cut neatly into 6ths or so. "Sure," I said. He knelt down and started working on getting me a piece. I had my eye on one of the larger segments, and he proceeded to cut a tiny sliver, about 1" wide at the edge of the pan. I kind of giggled to myself and accepted it gratefully. He continued to make his rounds. At that rate, it took him like 30 minutes to give away the whole pie. What a sweet kid!
During the movie, there's a scene where the President starts playing music on his keyboard for the giant alien probe. When the music started, the two little girls in front of us stood up and started dancing really wild and crazy. Then when the music ended, they sat down.
We didn't say till the end, but we did enjoy the movie-- as much for the actual movie as for the community show surrounding it.
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