Chalk Walk?

Last Saturday, Jer and I decided to have a date to a matinee movie and lunch at Firehouse. For the movie we drove down to The Gateway. As we were walking into the mall, we saw a bunch of people walking down the street. It turned out there was a big event and they shut down the main road through the mall. We saw a sign stating that this was a Chalk Walk. Curious, we got a little closer to some of the people that were on the ground with chalk and we noticed that there were some amazing drawings right on the road! We had to hurry to catch our movie but planned on walking the whole street when we got out so we could see all the art.

It turned out to be the highlight of our Gateway experience that day because the movie we saw was terrible. The trouble was I didn't have our camera on me, but I managed to get some good shots with my cell phone and I will post those for you all to see. This was a lot of fun! From what the signs said, this was done by students. Not sure if they were college students, because as you will see some of them looked pretty young.

Took this shot from the walkway by the theater. You can see the little areas that have been set up for the artists. Most were pretty smart and brought something to shade them from the sun while they worked.

Another shot of the people, taken at the intersection.

Not the best shot with the shade, but you can see just how detailed some of these drawings were.

Here's a good example, this one took two people to draw. You can see the picture they were using down in the left corner.

I thought this one was pretty cool, not something you would expect to see in chalk on the road.

This drawing was pretty good, but I took this shot mainly because of the girl. She looked like she was maybe 15.

Here's another that I liked, hard to believe this was all done with just chalk.

There were a few sections chained off like this, I think these were drawings done by the teachers. Not sure though. This is another good example of how detailed these drawings were.

Dah da-da dah... Cool, huh? I took this shot not just for the drawing, but because I also found it funny that the girl's underwear was hanging out. :)

Movies

So, here I am at work. I need to break up the monotony of the day today so I decided to right a quick post. Things at home are going well, just taking one day at a time. Nothing too exciting really. We do have to post a few things about our Youth Conference trip we had a week or two ago but I'll do that when I'm home and have more time. Last Saturday Jer and I went to a matinee at The Gateway and we saw some really cool artwork on the street, I'll make a post about that as well. They were some amazing chalk drawings.

My post for today is just for the movie we saw on Saturday, which was one of the movies voted for on my little poll I had up. Out of the two votes that were made...

You Don't Mess With The Zohan - PG-13 All I can say is, you don't want to mess with this movie. Rarely have I actually had the urge to just get up and walk out of a movie, but this made for the longest two hours! Jer and I shook our heads and looked at each other more than we looked at the screen. This show started off well enough for an Adam Sandler flick, I mean you have to expect it to be random. But the few laughs we did get were mostly from the clips you get on the preview, and even those weren't too great. Don't waste your time or money on this one, I've spent enough of both on it already.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull- PG-13 I love Indiana movies, they have always been great for me and Raiders of the Lost Ark was one of my favorites growing up. That's what makes this review tough for me. The movie was entertaining, but slightly disappointing at the same time. Maybe I expected too much, I don't know. Great action as usual, but the story was not what I wanted it to be. I'll just say this, for those that have not seen it this could help you prepare for what you'll encounter. Indy and Area 51. Good show, but of all the things to have Indy get involved with...

Kung-Fu Panda - PG Of all the recent movies I've seen, my best recommendation is one I didn't even think I would enjoy. And this one is for the kids as well. I watched this more because I needed something to watch than because I thought it looked like a good movie. Dreamworks has hardly ever let me down and they did well with this one. Funny, entertaining and a good story. This is one I will get as soon as it is released on DVD.

There you go, that's it for now. I may post another poll to see if there are other movies someone would like to get my opinion on. And I'll try to post that opinion a little faster next time. :)

Party!!!

On May 31st my work threw it's annual summer party. Jer and I decided to go and check it out, sounded like it could be a good way to kill an afternoon. We didn't expect to stay long though, just long enough to eat lunch and to get our share of the free cotton candy and snow cones. :) Turns out L-3 can throw a pretty fun party. We stayed from noon until it ended just after 3. Which meant that we had a good time, but also meant we got some pretty good tan lines. Okay, burn lines.

After we got home from the party I drove up to Layton to help Blake and Monica move into their new house, Jer was worn out so she stayed home with the puppies. Talk about a long day! I think I got home some time after 10 that night. It was fun though. On Sunday we ended up going over to my parent's place for dinner, and you can see that all the activities from the day before finally caught up with me...

Here's a shot of the Shark slide, that I was really tempted to go on! They had all kinds of slides there, and games to play. Oh, and face painting. Unfortunately, every time I wanted to have my face done there were too many kids having it done.

Jer standing at the entrance to the party at the fair park.

Me and my lunch, the pulled pork sandwich was tasty. As was my Coke.

Jer fixing her snow cone. They gave us a cup of shaved ice and then we got to put on the flavoring at one of these little stations. Sadly, when we came back for more at the end of the party it was closed! Next year we are making sure to get our fill of snow cones.

We decided to try out some of the carnival games they had set up. For this one Jer is trying to get the ball to land in the middle of the board. She missed but got a sucker for her efforts.

This game was apparently the big game of the day, it took us forever to get through the line to play! You roll 6 balls and try to get your score to be either over 30 or under 11. I was this close to getting Jer a stuffed animal, guess we'll have to go to Lagoon for that.

At 2 they had a show for us of Polynesian dancers (that was the theme of the party). It was a good show and we got to see a bunch of different types of dances from the islands.

This dance was one of war dances, the Haka. If you look real close you can see the guy sticking out his tongue and trying to look scary. It's the same type of dance the BYU football players do before they start a game.

Blue dart! Okay, not really but I thought this was a funny shot of the guy doing his fire baton dance.

And finally, me curled up on the little couch at my parent's house after dinner the next day.