Avatar!

One of the movies I've been wanting to see is Avatar. I was pretty excited when I saw on the sign board here at Riverside RV Resort and Hotel and Casino that there was also a cinema theatre as part of the complex -- and that one of the five movies they were showing was Avatar!



Tom and Juni wanted to go to the buffet at the Aquarius for dinner tonight, so since we knew the movie was an hour and one-half long, we decided we'd better go to the two o'clock show. 3-D has changed since the last time we'd gone to a 3-D movie. Instead of those cardboard glasses with one red and one blue lens, they gave us actual glasses that looked like sun glasses. And they could be worn over regular glasses.


So we took the shuttle from the RV Park down to the casino, rode the escalator to the second floor; stood in line and bought our tickets ($8.50 a piece for seniors); stood in another line and bought popcorn, drinks and a box of Dots (tradition since we were teenagers!); waited in another line (that actually had chairs!); finally were ushered into the theatre; waited another twenty minutes; and finally the previews started.



We started merrily to eat popcorn and Dots and watch the previews -- which were all in 3-D as well. I started feeling a bit queasy. The movie started. Wonderful colors and sweeping vistas that leapt out at you. I swallowed hard and took some slow deep breathes (advice I used to give patients in the ER). Things started getting intense -- the avatar was facing huge monstrous creatures that chased him through the massive fantastical forest. I tore open the top of the Dots box, thinking that even if it wasn't very big, it might keep vomit from splashing onto the persons next to me as I HURRIEDLY excused my self and exited the row! Thankfully there were only two people I had to get by to the aisle.



I whipped off those darn glasses and got to the back of the theatre. It was amazing how quickly things settled down! I watched the rest of the movie standing in the back (over an hour!). Because of the 3-D effects, much of it was often blurry or out of focus, but I could still enjoy the story... Forry said later that he even jumped when one of the projectiles came shooting out towards him during one of the fight scenes.


We met Tom and Juni and had a great buffet dinner at the Aquarius Casino down the street, then Forry watched Tom lose at both blackjack and craps. Juni and I played the slots -- I made a fifteen dollar profit playing penny slots from my five dollar stake! That's about the extent of my big-time gambling.