Lord of the Rings - the play, sucks

So, July is now over. Where does the time go? I can't even remember what happened at the end of July. Too many things going on, I guess.

I finally went to see Lord of the Rings, the play. Wow, now I realize why the show is being cancelled. It was so bad. The staging was pretty cool. But, the book is, what, 1600 pages. The movies were about 13 hours. Yet, they condensed that to 3 1/2 hours of play. Which was possible. I was suprised, but it was definitely possibe. Unfortunately, they did not get the right actors to pull it off. Gandalf did not have enough screen prescence. They also had the sound turned way up so it sounded like I was at a movie theatre with surround sound. Very weird for a play. Go see Spamalot, a much better production.

Off to the cottage with my dad and my sister. So, much fun. We watched Underworld: Evolution; played cards and cribbage and spent a ton of time on the boat. It was so relaxing. We also tore down some dead branches from one of the trees. That was fun!