Date Night Gone Awry

My dentist appointment for today got rescheduled. Whew! Glad I dodged THAT bullet! To celebrate, Jeff and I decided to go see "Alice in Wonderland". Let me preface this story by saying 1. That we are HUGE Johnny Depp fans, and 2. That Tim Burton friggin rocks.

That being said, I was mildly disturbed by Johnny's performance in this particular film. For starters, I could hardly understand anything he said the whole movie. Also I felt that he really didn't have much to work with character-wise. Come on Mr. Burton, you have one of the most brilliant character actors in the world at your disposal, and his crowning moment in your movie is a CGI-enhanced version of the hokey-pokey. Disappointing.

It wasn't all bad though. Here is the bullet list of Wonderland awesomeness:

• Costume Design
• Set Design
• The Queen of Heart's Big Fat Head
• The Cheshire Cat
• The trademark Tim Burton Forest
• Danny Elfman's Music
  
  Jeff pointed out that if Johnny Depp and I ever got together and had kids (fingers crossed), they would probably look something like this:

So after the movie, Jeff and I headed off to our favorite budget-friendly non-fast-food restaurant, Coconut Joe's. The second we walked in the door, we could tell by the faces of the other customers that something was horribly wrong, and then we heard it - the unmistakable sound of poorly amplified acoustic guitars mixed with the slightly off-pitch wailings of two 16 year-old boys. Our sunny, island-themed dinner destination was completely hidden in a dense fog of teenage angst. How did this happen?

Well, we were really hungry, so we decided to stick it out. Our server informed us that the live "music" was a new thing the restaurant was trying out and asked us how we liked it. Our response: "We never thought we could miss Don Ho so much!"