An Afternoon on the Town

Last weekend, Grandma and Grandpa Smith came up for a visit and to spend some time with Owen. Since they were watching Owen for the day, Mommy and Daddy got to go out and spend the afternoon downtown - like we used to in the old days! We had planned to walk over to the south side for the South Side Film Festival, but it was a little warm out so we decided to stay near Main Street. So, instead of watching a documentary about the impoverished in India, the new plan was to go see Toy Story 3, which was showing at the Boyd Theater across the street from where we were standing. However, the movie had started about half an hour ago, so we decided to try to go to the next show.

That Saturday, there was a benefit for the Gulf oil spill (called "Songs for the Spill") at one of the coffee houses that we frequent, so we stopped by there to donate some money and listen to music for a while. The benefit featured music from 11am-11pm with 12 total bands. When the time came for the next showing of Toy Story, we ran into a teacher from Phillipsburg on our way across the street to the theater. It turned out that her daughter was singing at the benefit at 5pm. So, we hung around a little longer and watched her daughter perform (with her boyfriend's band). They were pretty good!

Finally, after not seeing any movies, we stopped into Apollo Grill for dinner, where we don't get to go that often anymore. So, of course, it was very nice to get in there for a meal.