Bryce trip, June 2011

Check out these pictures on our hiking trip.

MAY'S COUNTER CHICKEN & WAFFLES - TUCSON, AZ

This is a re-visit to this restaurant which Bill is enamored of and which leaves me wanting. Once again he had a chicken breast and collard greens and absolutely loved it. Bill says it is one of the 3 best chicken meals he's EVER eaten!

i did not order a waffle this time so my meal was a tad better. I had a chicken sandwich with pepper jack cheese, grilled onions and green chilies. I asked for the sweet jalapeno sauce on the side, fortunately, since it was too sweet and too spicy and too seafoam green in color.

The chicken sandwich was ok but it was dry in spite of all that cheese so i had to put mayo on it. and i'm still puzzled at bill's praise of the chicken. Its tender but sort of dry. I also had fries which were almost cold and tasteless.

There are 8 tv's in the place and they are all on at full sound blast and all on different channels PLUS there is a loud radio station playing. and the waitress kept calling me honey. I told Bill we had to wait at least 4 months before going back.

THOR

an unexpectedly entertaining fun movie! It was at the 'cheap' theaters so both of us got in for $3.00. It was WELL worth it!!!!

interesting and engaging story of 2 brothers (though one is really the child of the "other race") and their father the King played by Anthony Hopkins. Thor, who at the start of the movie is headstrong and arrogant and eager to start a battle with the Others (frost kings? icy beings anyway.) mellows quite a bit as he gets banished from the kingdom by Dad and lands in the desert of New Mexico.

Natalie Portman (jane) is there with a close friend and an associate measuring something spatial and cosmic in the skies. Naturally her and Thor are attracted to each other but there is only a small tad of 'mushiness' and only 1 kiss. The scenes that involve Thor's interacting with earth people are really good with humorous dialogue (thor looks a lot like brad pitt) and once the shady G-men become involved it gets even more interesting.

I enjoyed the ending too which was a bit of a surprise. Acting was good and special effects were done well. A delightful cinematic experience. for the type of fantasy, sci-fi genre it falls in - both bill and i give it an 8.