Movies in the Park

Today Mike and I stayed downtown after work and went to see Sunset Boulevard in Grant Park. It started as a little knitting get-together suggested by Allyson, but turned into a sort of couples night as each of the knitters brought their significant other with them.

Mike went home before work and made sandwiches for us and brought them with him. Yummo!


Movies in the Park is a very popular event, as you can tell! Mike was reluctant to come, because he didn't think that he would like the movie, but was actually pleasantly surprised.


The crowd was really cool. Everyone cheered when the movie started and the title came on the screen and at each of the famous parts. Especially the part where Norma Desmond says, "I *am* big. It's the *pictures* that got small." And of course at the end - it's a great flick!!




(Allyson)


I had to pretend to take a picture of Allyson in order to get a picture of the make-out twins behind her. They insisted on dirty dancing and grinding against each other for half of the evening. Allyson took a picture over her shoulder and kept saying, "That's so weird." Which it was.


The coolest part was that we're in the park, sitting in this mass of humanity with these huge buildings surrounding us. It was just super cool.




Mike has daggers for the lady sitting next to me on the train. She's blocking an open seat and being generally disagreeable. I went to take a picture and accidentally caught him giving her a dirty look. It made me laugh, so I kept it!


Next week they're going to show "Duck Soup." They are going to be giving away Groucho Marx glasses to everyone who attends, because we will be attempting to shatter the current world's record for the number of people in one place who are wearing Groucho glasses. Awesome. I'm very excited to be participating. Mike has already said he'll go with me and Allyson will be there too. Can't wait!!!!