11/3/18 - Nutcracker with Mom and Beth

Saturday. Jack went to work a 5 am shift and Mom, Clara, Jane, and I stayed in our pajamas for hours and had GF pancakes and hung out. Mom and I visited in between playing with the girls, who enjoyed the deflating air mattress.

Mom gave the girls a bath. Jane was over it quickly but Clara hung out for a long time. After Jane went down for a nap Mom got some good one-on-one time with Clara while Jack and I went up to Sac State to sign up for gym membership at the Well.

Right after we returned Mom and I went up to Cinemark 14 and met with Beth to see The Nutcracker and the Four Realms. Mom was impressed with the relatively new theater and the way they let you get your own drinks. She thought it was all more efficient (it is). She also was surprised at how large the reclining seats are; she said she felt like a little kid, haha. The movie started with the animated Disney opening (a train moving through a small town and the view zooms out and you see the Disney castle with a moat) but then it moved seamlessly from that onward to a snowy Christmasy Charles Dickens-type town. Approximately three seconds into the Christmasy scene, Mom leaned over and whispered "This is great!!" Lol. She's definitely the target audience for the movie.

I enjoyed seeing it. The acting was mediocre but the visuals were great and it was indeed very Christmas-themed. Love the Nutcracker music. And it was just nice to sit still and eat popcorn and raisnets and not try to get a million things done at once. So that was a lot of fun.