August 17 – 25, 2014
Friday
August 22, 2014 – Day 6:
I’m now into the extended part of my holiday here in
the “Soo” and loving every second of it.
On Monday August 25th, I have to go home, so I only have
three days left to enjoy myself.
Today, the sun is expected to come out later this
morning or early this afternoon, and, boy, did it ever! So, I took advantage of one of the few sunny
days there’ve been this week to go over to the boardwalk and sit there and read
my book. As lovely as that was, I only
lasted about an hour though because I was getting too hot sitting in the sun by
the river and I was starting to get hungry again. This happened in the early afternoon. That was kind of funny because I did eat a good
breakfast this morning at the hotel.
So, I went back to the mall to McDonald’s to get
some Chicken McNuggets (the 6-pack meal) and took it back to my hotel room to
eat. I was still fairly hot and kind of
tired, probably from taking a little too much sun I guess, so I rested and
watched “Private Practice” (beginning of season 3) and tried to cool down
somewhat.
Later, I decided I had to visit the TD Canada Trust
ATM again, in order to make sure I have enough money to last me till I get home
on Monday. While I was doing that, I
contemplated buying a Cineplex Cinema movie ticket to see a movie called “Into
the Storm”. I can either buy my ticket
for the show today or buy my ticket
and use it later to see a future
show. I don’t go to the movies very
often; usually, I’m up here at the “Soo” whenever I want to do that. And, if I did buy a ticket, most likely I
would buy it over the counter at the movie theatre. I’m kind of old-fashioned that way.
Now, you can use a special type of vending machine
to buy and print your movie ticket; there’s no need to buy it from a ticket
vendor person at the theatre anymore. I
believe that the movie theatres already had these machines, but I’ve never used
one before; perhaps, I should start using them.
You can download an app for m.cineplex.com if you want; you can buy your
ticket on any computer at m.cineplex.com before you even get to the theatre,
but, even though I know such things are done, I’ve never done that either. I guess I’m not that technologically savvy
about such things - I suppose it’s because I just don’t go to the movies often
enough to worry about these things.
Maybe today, I might go to the movies at the Cineplex Cinema; it’s
pretty much the only thing I have left to do in the next few days before I have
to leave for home.
As it turned out, I wasn’t able to see that
particular movie today because it was no longer being shown due to being
cancelled yesterday – who knows why?
Probably some business man somewhere decided it wasn’t making enough
money. I inquired at the concession
stand about what happened to the movie I wanted, but all they could tell me is
that it was no longer available here.
Perhaps I’ll check out its availability on the web site and find out if
I can see it at home later on.
One good thing is that I bought movie-type food – a
hot dog, buttered popcorn and a large soft drink and took it back with me to my
hotel for dinner. Now, isn’t that
something you would only do on a vacation?!
While I was consuming this food, I watched a movie-DVD called “Air Force
One”, another movie I haven’t seen in a long time. I have tons of these movies, but not always
the time to watch them, except during vacation time.
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