Christmas in Granville

It is Christmas eve andI am spending Christmas in Granville Ohio. My Brother and Sister-in-law's home is decorated in every nook and corner with trees,wreathes,lights and christmas nick-nacks nativity scenes , and Angels everywhere

Advance showing of TINTIN

I went to see "the adventures of Tin Tin" today. It was an anamated 3D movie.
It was my first 3D movie and I felt a little sea sick when it was over. It was Fantastic! The story goes like this.
Having bought a model ship, the Unicorn, for a pound off a market stall Tintin is initially puzzled that the sinister Mr. Sakharine should be so eager to buy it from him, resorting to murder and kidnapping Tintin - accompanied by his marvellous dog Snowy - to join him and his gang as they sail to Morocco on an old cargo ship. Sakharine has bribed the crew to revolt against the ship's master, drunken Captain Haddock, but Tintin, Snowy and Haddock escape, arriving in Morocco at the court of a sheikh, who also has a model of the Unicorn. Haddock tells Tintin that over three hundred years earlier his ancestor Sir Francis Haddock was forced to scuttle the original Unicorn when attacked by a piratical forebear of Sakharine but he managed to save his treasure and provide clues to its location in three separate scrolls, all of which were secreted in models of the Unicorn. Tintin and Sakharine have one each and the villain intends to use the glass-shattering top Cs of operatic soprano the Milanese Nightingale to secure the third. With aid from bumbling Interpol agents the Thompson Twins our boy hero,his dog and the captain must prevent Sakharine from obtaining all three scrolls to fulfil the prophesy that only the last of the Haddocks can discover the treasure's whereabouts. (Written by don @ minifie-1)

"HAIR"

Saw the opera "Faust" at the Cinemax last Saturday. Today i'm going to see the musical "Hair" at Toronto's Royal Alexandra Theater. It is part of my subscription of shows by Mervish.

I am planning to drive to Columbus next week to visit My brother and his family. I hope the weather is good.

This Week

This week I saw the Opera "Rodelinda."At the Cineplex. I got my flu shot and saw the Toronto production of "Mary Poppins." Tonight is the Palace Pier's Christmas party and Saturday I will see the Opera "Faust" by the Metropolitan Opera at the Cineplex.

Mega bus Return trip from Durham NC

The trip back on the Mega

bus was nice. My son and his friend got me there about 1:30 and so we went to a local pub there for beers and nacho chips

I had a strawberry beer and they had cider like beer? The bar was in a old Tobacco facility turned into shops and offices there in Downtown Durham NC. It has a river flowing right through it with waterfalls . It was raining but the walk along the river was covered by awnings

After hugging my son goodbye I found a seat on the bus . It was one of four seats facing a table with cup holders and electric outlets for computers. we left at 3 pm for Washington DC with a short stop in Richmond VA.

We arrived in Washington at 8 pm It was dark and we drove by the Washington Monument and the Capital building It is an impressive sight. At the union station I went downstairs to the shopping level. and had burgers and a large coffee at Macdonald’s. Boarded the bus to Toronto at 10:15 it stoped in Baltimore MD, Harrisburg PA and Bath NY for rest stop then on to Buffalo NY and Canada customs at the peace bridge. Arrived at 10.45 am in Toronto . The trip could be compared to an airplane ride to Australia