Here comes the bride

And she is my beautiful stepsister Eva who married the wonderful Jea on Saturday July 25 at a cool arts venue in Richmond, VA – Plant Zero. In attendance in the wedding party? The cutest nephew ever – Destin – as ring bearer! Here he is with Derek, the ceremony officiant. The whole weekend was a wonderful celebration topped off with the most adorable wedding cake that was topped off with figures of Eva, Jea and Destin! Too cute. Congratulations again to the happy couple!! Can’t wait to see all of you at Christmas! More wedding pics can be found here

Hot fun in the Summertime

After the wedding, had a great relaxing week of soaking up the rays from my mom’ & Peter's porch and pool in Staunton, Tania & Ned’s beach house in New Jersey and David & John’s beach house in Delaware. Many thanks to all for the great hospitality and fun times! There are Scrabble re-matches to be had with all come Christmas, plus catching up reading Harry Potter to Nadia.

Saw a great documentary, Food Inc, w/Mom and Peter and one of the main farms featured, Polyface Farms, turns out to be right outside Staunton! Small world! Bring on the local meat and eggs! Speaking of farms, there is nothing like New Jersey and Delaware produce in the summer. Had the most gorgeous cantaloupe and corn. Mmm good!

The weather gods were also smiling as it was gorgeous weather all week, save for the drive home from Dewey in a practically apocalyptic thunderstorm. OMG, like torrents of rain! Never fear though as my journey was safe and sound in, well a Journey. I got a free upgrade on my rental car and moved up from economy to nice big sturdy emerald green Dodge Journey. This came after getting a free upgrade on the flight over to World Traveller Plus. Thanks BA! Beach pics are here

Laying down the Law..or Get thee to NYC…

… to see Jude Law in Hamlet! Three words: A-MAZ-ING! He should totally do more theatre. From the moment he started speaking he just drew me in and said those famous speeches in the most accessible way. So charismatic, great physicality (and gorgeous)! Loved how they did ‘to be or not to be’. Think he’s replaced Tom Hulce as my fave Hamlet! (Oh no I didn’t…oh yes I did!)
In the theatre I was 4 rows behind Law’s “Sherlock Holmes” co-star Rachel McAdams!! – gorgeous in skinny black trousers and a peachy pink silk kimono like type top). Alas, no pics of her. She came out of stage door briefly after show, but stage manager blocked the shot and she didn’t stay.
Not so Jude though, who was very gracious and took lots of time signing autographs. He’d kept us waiting for quite some time (think while he was visiting w/Rachel), so the crowd was a bit unruly by the time he came out w/lots of shouting going on.I calmly stood and waited my turn and when he took my programme to sign, I looked right at him and said ‘That was a fantastic performance, thank you very much’ and he looked right back at me w/those gorgeous blue eyes and said ‘My pleasure’…I died, and could have laid down the Law right there and then (if ya catch my drift) Special thanks to Lynne for having the forethought to buy tickets way ahead of time (like last year!). More pics of Jude are here

Let’s all go to the movies

The Hangover is the funniest movie of the year, dare I say the decade. Seriously, from start to finish that movie is HI-LAR-I-OUS.
Ed Helms is my new hero, well, along with Joseph Gordon Levitt. (500) Days of Summer? AMAZING! Have you seen it yet? No? What are you waiting for? GO! Seriously, you must see it. So creative, such great writing, such sweet performances. LOVED it.

Earlier in the summer, we paid homage to a fallen film hero – John Hughes, when the Prince Charles Cinema held a memorial double feature of Ferris Bueller and Planes, Trains and Automobiles (which I had never seen before). Have to say, Ferris does not quite stand the test of time, seems a bit dated now, but I LOVED P,T & A. Martin and Candy were fantastic, such great chemistry and dialogue. That’s one I don’t think I’ll grow tired of.