Star Wars Potato Heads

We did a little bit of random decorating for the upcoming Star Wars Day by putting out a collection of Mr. Potato Heads that we've collected over the years.  I forgot that we had this many different Star Wars themed Potato Heads, but there's Artoo, Chewbacca, Darth Vader, Stormtroopers and a Boba Fett too!

In the spirit of things, we just got some tickets for "Revenge of the Sith" in theaters tomorrow night.  Should be fun to see a Star Wars movie in the theater again.  The movie is doing really well as a re-release from 20 years ago, and this one Maddie's never seen in theaters, and we're not sure if she's actually seen an original Star Wars movie in theaters, so this might be the first.  

Speaking of things in space, tonight we continued our Camelot-athon with a viewing of "The Unidentified Flying Oddball," which is the same story we've been watching a few times this week already where a modern person goes back to the year 508 to hang around the folks at Camelot.  This version had a few familiar faces, and Mom and I actually enjoyed this one more than we originally thought we would.  It had some humorous lines that sort of snuck up on you, and while it's still just campy Disney 70's fun, it was still a pleasant experience.  This movie started out with the usual "Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" premise, but then took it into a completely different direction with no eclipse, no Swiss army knife, and no king disguising himself as a peasant.  It did feature a headless android joisting, a rocket powered chair, and a co-starring gander (not a goose).  It also featured the same actor playing Merlin who would go on to portray Merlin again in "A Kid in King Arthur's Court," which is kind of cool.

Anyway, it was a quiet day.  I got some work done towards the new booklet in June, and Maddie was of course at taekwondo.  She was doing a bit of instructing again.  Today was her last Monday of school.

     She brought home her box camera and negatives and some other items, as this week she's basically packing things up to move on from school.  It was a decent day, and she's bittersweet about the whole thing, missing the people but not all the work so much.

I was on the treadmill this morning, and I'm watching the original Star Trek movie series on glorious VHS down there.  I finished "Wrath of Khan" this morning, and forgot just how amazing that movie is.  We got the new canopy up out on the back deck, and it was so easy to put up.  Oh, and I got the car's emission test done and got it registered, getting new tags.  Speaking of new tags, we got our luggage tags from Disney Cruise Line, so we'll be ready for that when it comes.  I have to stay up until midnight again one day this week so that we'll hopefully get a reservation at the Royal Gathering onboard.  We'll see how that goes!

Maddie got home tonight from taekwondo, and afterwards she was doing some studying while Mom and I were getting medieval with our movie choice there.  But afterwards, it was time for some reading, and we were back at the Discworld with our currently book, "Carpe Jugulum."  I forgot to tell Maddie that today would have been the author Terry Pratchett's birthday.  And regular readers of this blog will know that we didn't read that book because it was his birthday, but rather we read the Discworld books all year round because they're so great.  New things are coming out of the Discworld soon, although nothing new in regards to his writing, of course.  But it's still exciting to see the fandom and the creativity still moving forward. 

We said our prayers tonight, and after that, it was time for some sleep.