Junior Olympics: Day Four
Grace Fellowship Church
Costa Mesa to San Diego
Slept oh so terribly.
Left the hotel at about 7:34 and still made it to Golden West for the 8 a.m. game. They played Puget Sound again and beat them 6-1 for their third victory of the tournament. It was about two more victories than I would have ever hoped for.
We went from the pool to coffee and then I had to stop at a Wells Fargo for some cash which nearly made us late for church but we actually did make it right on time. It was Outreach Sunday at Grace Fellowship. Part of the service several people got up and told of their involvement with various outreach activities the church is involved with including the trip to Northrise in Zambia this summer. Then the preaching pastor gave a brief message on outreach from Acts 1.
After church we had lunch at their monthly “brunch” which basically was sandwiches and chips but a very great time of fellowship. We sat with Kevin and Ben and eventually Ruth Beck.
From there I took Christine to the airport and then I headed down to San Diego at about 1 . The drive was uneventful and I bet I was at the San Diego State University Campus by 2:30 or so.
I made some calls and found Whitney and eventually got into the dorms after driving around a bit. Apparently there is no free internet and we have to switch dorms in the morning. After I locked my keys in the room and finally got them back out I headed to Grossmonte mall to see a movie. I ws there by four and bought the $10.50 full price ticket to Mummy 3.
"The “Mummy” franchise has always been the B-movie version of the “Indiana Jones” films, which themselves are B movies elevated by Steven Spielberg into an action-adventure colossus. So what does that make the “Mummy” films in the grand scheme of things? C movies? The third installment, “Tomb of the Dragon Emperor,” directed by Rob Cohen (“XXX,” “The Fast and the Furious”), is by far the weakest. In it the excitement-starved husband-and-wife exploring team, Rick and Evelyn O’Connell (Brendan Fraser and Maria Bello, who replaces Rachel Weisz), come out of retirement in 1946 to travel to Shanghai, where they are tricked into helping resurrect an evil 2,000-year-old emperor (Jet Li). The emperor’s schemes to become immortal all those years ago were foiled when a benign sorceress (Michelle Yeoh) laid a curse on him. While in Shanghai, Rick and Evelyn run into their mischievous college dropout son, Alex (the charmless Luke Ford). The kindest thing to be said for this frantic, cluttered mess of cheesy computer-generated action-adventure clichés is that at least you can see how the estimated $175 million budget (according to the Internet Movie Database) was spent. — Stephen Holden, The New York Times
It actually was fun and pretty good. It never took itself too seriously. For dinner I had Panda and then came back to campus where I ran into Kathy McCollum and a woman, Pam Engelhart from computer services and we walked over to the library looking for internet. We found some but unfortunately we got to the library at 7 :54 and it closed at 8.
I went and talked with the reps for a while and took a call from Stan Zumbiel and he wanted to know what was going on at DC. I finally went to bed at about 11.
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