T Stands for Theater Week

 Hi everyone. Happy new week to you, and if you're stopping by for T over at Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog, happy T day to you.

    The last week and a half  I have been busy going to the movies and also to a live performance. I only went to one live performance, but I actually went to 5 movies. That's  more movies than I  usually go  and see in a whole year. Ha ha! 😏 And none of those 5 movies were even  new or new-to-me films.  

   You might remember back in February my friend Deb and I went to see the first 4 of the Harry Potter movies. (My T day post about those 4 movies is here.) The local theater where we saw the first 4 films in February was showing the last 4 in the series around the Labor Day Weekend. Of course we had to go  and  finish seeing them. 😉

   We saw 2 films  (numbers 5 and 6) on one day and then a couple of days later we saw the last 2 movies (numbers 7 and 8). You might think I'm crazy doing that since you can see them on TV, but seeing a movie on a big screen in the dark makes the movie a very different thing. You can see small details that are hard to pick out on the TV, and with the surround sound of the theater it's much more of a dimensional experience. It was great to see all 8 Harry Potter films on the big screen relatively close to each other.

   The other movie I went to see was Jaws. It was rereleased in theaters for its 50th anniversary with a limited engagement. It's one of my favorite films, and every summer my husband and I watch it on TV from the DVD we own. I saw it on the big screen back in 1975 when it first came out in theaters 50 years ago. I also saw it on the big screen one other time, but that time the crowd was very rowdy and were making all kinds of loud comments during the film so it wasn't the best viewing experience.  I wanted to see it again on the big screen, so did my friend Deb, who is not only a Harry Potter fan but also a Jaws fan.  On the last day it was showing we caught a matinee showing. 

     We were also the only 2 people in the theater, so we picked the best seats in the house, front and center. ❤ And ha ha. There is one scene where a head rolls out of a boat underwater, and I knew it was coming. I even said to Deb, "Here comes the head", but I still jumped out of my seat. That's the big screen effect. Grin.

   But the movies weren't my only performance. As I mentioned at the beginning of this post, I went to one live theater performance too.

   A group of friends and I went to see a musical at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Ogunquit, Maine. I borrowed this next photo from Wikipedia to share  because of course, I never took any photos. (They also weren't allowed during the performance.) We didn't jump on tickets very quickly, but we did manage to find 4 seats together for a matinee after trying a lot of different dates. They were like the last 4 seats together and maybe even the last 4 seats in the theater that day so we were lucky.

   We went to see a fun musical called When Elvis Met Beatles. 

    Boy some people really can sing. It was a fun day out. We first had lunch at a restaurant right on the ocean  at a place called Jackie's Too (sorry, forgot to take photos there also) before the  play. 

   For this week's drink here's a photo I snapped on my phone of my dinner ( a big bin of popcorn) as well as a drink ( a diet Pepsi) that I had before one of the Harry Potter films. I have to laugh since what's on the movie screen behind my popcorn, but a photo of some popcorn. And if you wondered why I bought such a big popcorn, that's because I brought home the rest to my husband who was ailing with his bad back. It was much appreciated. (And luckily his back is still improving.)

  Before I sign off I just want to mention that unless my husband's back gets worse and we have to cancel, I won't be around for the next 2 weeks of T Day. We are scheduled to head out later this week for a vacation in Maine and then onto Nova Scotia, Canada. Until then, have some super T days and some great weeks ahead.