The last time my daughter and I went to the San Antonio Zoo together was before she was diagnosed with leukemia, so just over four years ago. At that time, the jaguars had a couple cubs, and the zoo was building this bridge to expand their habitat. Today, we went back for the first since chemo ended. During our final visit of the day to see the jaguar exhibit (one of our favorite cats), we got to see this incredible moment as one of the grown up cubs crossed the bridge. A good day.
for the low low cost of ten american dollars, you can name a cockroach after someone you dislike and watch it be fed to an animal!
for example! we have a really shitty now-ex friend that will be honored with a donation to the san antonio zoo and fed as a cockroach to some variety of beastie! cathartic and charitable!
Morning workout was nuts from the beginning, then got ready for a trip to the San Antonio Zoo with two of the kids. I didn鈥檛 track the entirety, but it was around five total miles of walking. (We repeat large portions of the zoo, because it鈥檚 awesome, and you never know what you鈥檒l see.)
A good day, but now I鈥檓 not moving from the couch until bedtime.
Finally got around to watching Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
and
100% honesty here?
I smiled-to-grinned-helplessly at every second of it! It is SO charming and SO expertly animated! The comparisons to the Spiderverse movies I've seen so far are 100% warranted and I genuinely hope loads of CGI animated movies follow these patterns/designs in the future because they're just SO refreshing to watch in a... maybe "engaging" is the word to use? You feel like you're IN the animation, reacting eagerly TO it, rather than sitting tiredly as you watch a rough draft with a few key splash pages go by.
I dunno. YouTube keeps recommending me people bleh-dunking on Disney's Wish and from what clips of that movie I've seen it looks SO dull in comparison to Puss. Like, I have 0 clue what Wish is about! I've seen maybe 4 5-10 second clips of it at most. There's a goat? The protag's bestie (besties??) are based on the 7 Dwarves? There's like 50 references to older Disney movies because it's supposed to be a celebration of Disney's 100th?
But strictly speaking from a visual perspective/demonstration/execution/exultation of animation prowess? Puss is INCREDIBLE. On a strictly visual/style comparison there is NO comparison. I'm speaking honestly here; I couldn't HELP but grin watching every second of Puss. It's a delight just to watch. I'd say that even if the story bored me and that is NOT the case. The story is SO GOOD. The story makes it an EASY 10 times better than what the brilliant visuals promised. It is SO worth the dollars I dropped on a rental watch of it, and it's definitely a movie I (a person who is NOT interested in movies until years later at BEST) would be keen to watch again.