Movies I've watched recently:
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2008-08-16 13:56
I'm a fan of these kind of real-life-problems in the real world kind of movies. Good acting, a couple funny parts.
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2008-08-03 20:06
Interesting movie that brought up some good topics for discussion with my kids. It almost felt like the producers rode the fence between 'romantic comedy' and 'fairytale' genre. Consequently it slightly lacked as both.
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
2008-07-31 18:01
If I were rating it for me? 2. If I were rating it for Chloe? 4.5. So we'll just go with 3 and call it good. Your kid will enjoy it and that's what counts, right?
0.3
Jun
20
Day 1 at the Dream Center
Post Category: Blog Posts, Dream Center
Yesterday was a very long and eventful day - which is why I wasn’t able to log on and write a blog post. We woke up at 4:30 AM to catch the shuttle bus to the airport. After the shuttle dropped us off I grabbed my luggage and ran across the street to avoid the oncoming traffic. I heard a crunching sound behind me as I stepped onto the curb and turned around to find out that my PocketPC smart phone had dropped off of my belt and got run over by a bus! Let’s just say for the sake of the story that I said “Crap!” but you can imagine what you would have said if your $400 phone just got ran over by a bus. Oh well, what can you do?
�We had a good flight and arrived in beautiful, sunny Los Angeles at 8:30 in the morning. Steve and I got our rental vans and we navigated through L.A. traffic to get to the Dream Center in time for our tour and orientation.
Our afternoon project was with Hope For Homeless Youth. We took bags of sack lunches down to Venice Beach and handed them out to homless people we met. If you’ve never been to Venice Beach there is no good way to describe it. It’s a boardwalk that is on a beautiful part of the beach just off of Santa Monica. All along the boardwalk there are vendors, artists and musicians that set up along with tons of fortune tellers and tarrot card readers. Even though the real estate along the beach is very expensive the Venice boardwalk is huge hangout for all kinds of homeless people going from one fix or drink to the next. It’s a weird mix of tourists and homelessness; wealth and poverty. Any time you go to Venice Beach you can always count on some interesting conversations and encounters. We met one guy dressed up in who thought he was Shiva, the many-armed Indian diety. He showed Ramon pictures of his son Ganesha, the elephant-headed god of beginnings - not your typical dad, huh? Hey, look at pictures of my kid!
Today we have a full day of ministry opportunities. Part of our group will be prepping for the Adopt-A-Block on Saturday. This afternoon we’ll be participating in Metro Kidz - the inner-city childrens’ program.
I’ll try to post some pictures and more about what we’re doing later on. Feel free to drop me some comments and I’ll pass them along to the rest of group.
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Hi Brad! Just came across your blog. Tell Seth “Grandma Dori says Hi!” Thanks!