Happy Summer Solstice!

On June 20th at approximately 11:04 PM (MST) the north pole reached its maximum axial tilt toward the sun (23° 26') marking the beginning of the longest sunlit day of the year. For those of us with the soul of a flower (meaning you flourish in sunlight and wilt in the darkness) this is the happiest day of the year. It's a day of healing and hope, so Handsome and I decided to celebrate by spending as much time outside as possible.

I surprised Handsome by picking him up after work (he usually walks home) and we drove to Red Ginger for sushi. Yum Yum. I'm technically not allowed to eat sushi...but I'm pretty sure California rolls and Vegas rolls were invented for pregnant women consumption, so I indulged. This place rocks! We got 5 rolls, 2 bowls of miso soup, and paid a 20% tip for a total of $16.35. The service was terrible, but the sushi was amazing so we didn't even care!

Then we ate dreamsicles at a park.

Wanting to squeeze the fun out of every last drop of sunlight, we went to an outdoor movie playing at another local park. They played "Troop Beverly Hills." Lame-O. After we finished our kettle corn, which took about 6.5 minutes, we left because the movie was...lame-O (definition of LAME-O: A movie that has one funny idea (e.g. ditsy girls and women attempting to be girl scouts by camping in hotels, getting pedicures, and buying jewelry) and then relies on that same idea to build every plot sequence for the rest of the movie with little variation, and then, when that gets old, resorting to cheap dirty jokes and vulgar language because the writers' creativity couldn't tread the shallowness of the storyline. In the movie's defense, we only watched about 6.5 minutes because, like I said, the kettle corn ran out. Plus the sun was down, so we called it a night.

But we didn't want the fun to be over yet! So the next day we went to Seven Peaks with some friends and my sister's family. Handsome went on a ton of scary slides and I floated in a tube down the "Lazy River" a bunch of times. It was awesome. Then we went home, ate some yummy tacos, took a little nap, and then went to "Man of Steel" using our Fandango gift card that we had lost, but then found cleaning our car that morning. Yippee!

"Man of Steel" was pretty cheese-ball, but in a good way. We were definitely entertained. I thought it preserved the classic Superman-y charm while telling a story that was a little bit easier to swallow than "...and then he reversed time by flying around the earth really, REALLY super fast!" Handsome thought the bad guy was awesome, way better than Lex Luthor. I mean, come on? You have an indestructible alien living on the planet and Lex Luthor, some wimpy, white collar criminal earthling, is his biggest threat? I don't think so.  It was a pretty good movie. Except for that part when Superman's adoptive dad ran into the F-16 tornado to save a DOG! What the heck? Some Americans have an unhealthy relationship with their pets.

We had a pretty spontaneous, awesome weekend, full of sunlight and happy moments. But my favorite part was hanging out with Handsome. We love shoot'n the breeze, giving bad critiques on bad movies, and telling jokes that are only funny to us. Let the summer begin!