We had a slow start to the day since Bryan and company were recovering from their big night out (The Shins concert on Wednesday night). I was able to rally the troops for lunch at Kimo's earlier in the day, then Bryan and I took the bus to the beach at Black Rock.
The water was like glass yesterday! There was absolutely zero surf, but there was a good amount of wind that intermittently blasted sheets of sand all over me. It felt safer to be in the water!
I took my Aquasphere goggles and swam like a fish to the peninsula point and beyond (featured in the photo above). I did that swim twice followed by a run on the beach--Bryan joined me for the two laps I ran!!
Having fun with silhouettes on the sand:
(I didn't realize that my Reef flip flop managed to sneak into the picture above until much later)
Bryan doesn't like having his photo taken, but he humored me and posed for our silhouette snapshot:
Clouds gathered over the West Maui Mountains behind us an the mist from the rain created this gorgeous rainbow. The rainbow's arc continued to arch higher and grow brighter over the next hour.
Leaving the beach:
After we bused home, we cleaned up and biked over to Fu Lin for some Chinese food. It's not the best ever, but it was fairly satisfying. I love their eggplant in Peking Sauce. And their Egg Drop Soup is not to be missed.
After dinner Bryan and I went to see The Cabin in the Woods. Writer/Producer Joss Whedon is one of my favorites. He's famous for his work in television (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and Dollhouse), and I was interested in what he'd bring to the big screen (and for the ultimate fanboys, yes, I realize that Serenity was his first feature--but it's more of a continuation to his television series Firefly and not an original, standalone flick like Cabin).
The premise of the movie is original, clever, humorous and wry but it pivots on a premise that all of us is familiar with: five young, hot college kids go to a beat up, abandoned cabin in the middle of nowhere to have a fun weekend getaway but it all goes horribly wrong.
It's a great horror movie because it's plays off of all your expectations that been screwed into place by the horror genre. After leaving the theater, I felt like I had just watched an extended, R-rated episode of a Joss Whedon television show. If any of you are Joss Whedon fans then you know exactly what I'm talking about and are going to love the movie--especially with all the Whedon alumni featured in the movie, plus this guy:
Richard Jenkins is one of my favorite character actors and he is seemingly in everything. I was incredibly delighted to see him in Cabin in the Woods, and he played one of my favorite characters.
If you can stomach a few good scares and some gore as well as the unexpected, get thee to a theater and see The Cabin in the Woods.
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