Football Game and a Movie

We awoke this morning to the sounds of a loudly bawling kitten. It seems that the mama cat, who appeared at our house with six of her brood a few weeks ago, has now disappeared, taking five of the kittens with her. We don't know why the little gray one was left behind...maybe he was asleep when the rest of them took off.



The kitten, a juvenile, is skittish and won't let us near it, though it's plenty grateful for dishes of milk and cat food. It was delirious with joy later, when Hubbie gave it the scraps from some sardines I had for lunch.



I hit the treadmill right after breakfast and then did laundry and a few other household chores before playing on the computer. Mother came over around 11:30 to continue working on greeting cards, while Hubbie and I tried in vain to get our favorite team's football game on the radio. We tried every station on every radio in the house...the boom box, the stereo, the radio in the bedroom, and even the little emergency radio that we keep in the pantry (our hidey-hole in case of tornadoes). Finally, I decided to check the team's website to find out what station was carrying the game. The station wasn't listed, but the time was...4 p.m., not 11:30 a.m. Oops!



We sure wish this game had been televised, because our team did a great job. Following a couple of painful (including one especially embarrassing) losses recently, they fought hard this week and won by a narrow margin.

We decided to go to a 7 p.m. movie downtown last night. The football game wasn't over when we arrived at the theater, so listened to it on the car radio until the last few minutes, long enough to hear our team make the winning touchdown.

At the theater, we saw "Journey to the Center of the Earth," rated "PG" and starring Brendan Fraser. This updated adaptation of the Jules Verne novel is very family oriented. It has both its edge-of-your-seat adventure, and its humorous moments. The historic theater that showed the film, however, is not equipped with a digital screen, so the movie could not be seen in 3-D, even with special glasses. I think it would have been more exciting in that format.

The cinema 7 theater on the other side of town has digital screens and showed this film in 3-D several weeks ago, at a significantly higher admission fee. The old theater downtown showed it for $2 admission.

Last night, there was a large audience for the showing. If the audiences were as large for the Friday night and Saturday afternoon showings, then the theater did a good business...especially in concessions. We noticed last night that most folks were enjoying popcorn, cold drinks, etc.

We had our popcorn and cold drinks at home after the movie. It doesn't make sense to us to spend at the concession stand what we saved in ticket prices. But I imagine that families reason that if they save as much as $5.50 on each ticket, then they can afford to splurge on concession snacks. In the end, an outing to this theater is much more economical for a family than going to the cinema 7 theater.