The mission concludes

As the new year opens before us, the mission comes to a close.

Yesterday, being New Year's Eve, we stayed close to home. Jane had a dessert to make for the dinner we were going to, but after that we made a trip to the local theater to see The Pursuit of Happyness. It's a nice feel good movie. Then a brief trip to Barnes and Noble to exchange a couple of books. Then home to work on a couple reviews and to do some consideration of rankings for Darrel's Dozen so I can get it up in a timely fashion.

Saw the new year in playing Would You Rather and dominoes with friends. Jane won Would You Rather when we all gave her a pass on having to do a major booty shaking on one of the challenges.

This morning we went to Santa Monica for the last of the films before we go back to work. We saw The Good German. It's Soderbergh and Clooney doing a Bogie movie. The down side is that Clooney ain't Bogart. I liked it more than Jane did, but it's nothing major. Strangely, at the complex where we saw this, The Good Shepherd was playing at the next screen over. Between the two sat a very well behaved police dog -- The Good German Shepherd. After the movie we went to Le Pain Quoditien for lunch - very nice.

All good things must come to an end, and so does our vacation-mission. We really did very well at our task. We started with 15 movies on our list. We discarded one, saw 12 and have only Venus and We Are Marshall remaining on the list we had. And we managed to get some trips in to Pasadena, Hollywood and Santa Monica. We never thought we'd make it to them all, but we did damn well. Of course, there are other movies opening later this week, so our "to see" list will continue to grow -- life is good.