Weather wimps

After our horseback ride on Saturday afternoon, the skies opened up with thunder, lightning, and rain as they have almost every afternoon since we've been here. I think in past trips to the Land we head to Boulder in the late afternoons to swim and avoid the rain leaving us thinking that the Land was a kind Camelot where it only rained when we weren't there. But now that we're spending so much time in Boulder anyway, we had been hoping to spend the whole weekend in the mountains. But there we were at 3 o'clock with a pretty strong rain and no end in sight. So we wimped. We went back to Boulder with no preconception of heading back to the mountains that night. We turned back into civilized people eating dinner at a restaurant and watching a movie in a theater. Wimps.

But the restaurant was pretty cool! It was a Thai place called Elephant Hut. Alex had some yellow curry served on a dish that looked like a painter's palette with little indented cups filled with green curry, tom kha, and tom sum. Wee learned that he liked Pad Thai. And well, we just won't talk about mine. But better than the food was the art. We noticed it even before we walked in the door. A very simple yet elegant picture of an ellaphant. During dinner there was a video running over the bar. It showed the artist doing the painting. The artist was an ELLAPHANT!!! Unbelievable as it may seem, ellaphants have learned to paint and they can even paint pictures of themselves! We were completely captivated by the video. Add one thing to my birthday list!!!



The actual theater movie that we saw - The Proposal - was formulaic, but good. Wee stayed up for the whole thing. The boy loves chick flicks. He at least likes them better than camping in the rain.