Movie Night!

The boys' school had their first movie night to try and build funds for their parent association...as well as give some to a local charity. Since I'm on the Board, I helped out. We were supposed to have an English movie with chinese subtitles. But, the person who was supposed to bring it, said it broke at the last minute and I ended up bringing mine from the States...which had no subtitles.

I felt bad, since all the chinese families who came, brought many of their relatives. It was a big deal to them! So, they actually ended up leaving early. :( Next time, we will have a chinese movie, with English subtitles.

For several kids, though, it didn't matter, since they ended up running around anyway. I give them credit...they stayed still for a lot longer than I thought they would. What's funny, though, is that most of the girls stayed still and watched the entire movie! While the boys...hahaha...well, they are definitely different animals. 'Animals' being the operative word here! As it usually happens in our house, you couldn't make them sit still for long. They ended up wrestling, running around and playing tug-of-war. All the boys were like that. haha How many times have I wished they would sit long enough to at least color or roll Play-Doh around for more than 5 minutes!? Where my friends with girls will sit for hours coloring or doing some kind of craft!

Anyway, the movie was fun, but a bit long. I hadn't remembered that Mary Poppins was so long...something like 2.5 hours! Yikes! Everyone had lots of fun and we were exhausted by the time we got home!