Anna Karenina

Monday night I went to Downtown Disney to have dinner with my friend Katie and her new hubby.  We also met another friend and her new hubby.  Which I thought was going to be mega awkward since it was two couples and me. (Fifth wheel anyone?)  But it turned out to be a good dinner.
We had a fairly early dinner at Planet Hollywood (which is totally overpriced if you ask me) and afterward the others decided to walk around but I decided to head home.
I was walking by the AMC theatre when I saw that Anna Karenina was playing.As y'all know if you read this post,  it's one of my must see holiday movies.  So I double checked the time and saw it had just started 10 minutes before, so I bought myself a ticket and went inside.
Now I'm not really one do go and do things alone. For example, you'll never find me eating a meal alone in a restaurant, like EVER.  But I would go to the movies alone once a week if my bank account allowed me too.
Today I'm giving you my thoughts on Anna Karenina.

I've never read the book, by Leo Tolstoy and luckily you don't really have to have read the book to follow the story line fairly easily. But for those of you who don't know what the story is about here is a brief synopsis.Anna Karenina is the beautiful wife of a Russian government official,  Karenin. They have a seemingly happy marriage until Anna meets a man in the Russian military Count Vronsky.  The film tells the story of their passionate love affair.
The film stars Keira Knightly and Jude Law.  That alone made this film a given for me to see.  Along with the fact that it is a period film.  I will see any film that is a period film.It's my favorite genre. 

I loved the way the told the story.  It was as if we were all actually sitting in an old fashion opera house and each scene was played out as acts in a play.  Now this wasn't the way the entire movie was set up but the majority of it was.  It definitely required that you pay attention though because each scene moved pretty quickly.  One minute you're in a ballroom in Moscow and the next you're on a train to St. Petersburg. 

Keira Knightly and Jude Law did a great job portraying Anna and her husband, Karenin.   I don't want to spoil the story if you've never read the book nor seen the movie, but you find yourself torn between feeling sorry for Anna and hating her at the same time.

I think my favorite part was the costumes.  They were to die for, especially since the film is based in the late 1800s, the gowns, hats, and jewels are drool worthy.  And as most of you know I was born in the wrong era, so I'm dying to wear just about every dress in the film.

 (Side note: Shout out to all you Downton Abbey fans out there!  Michelle Dockery aka Mary Crawley is in the film. Not gonna lie I was pretty excited when I recognized her! I love Downton Abbey!)


 So if you enjoy great costumes, great music (this film is full of it), the late 1800s and all its society drama then you will love Anna Karenina.

Now I'm off to read the book!

Best Friend Reunion

Thursday and Friday were two of the best days I've had in a really long time.
We had a mini best friend reunion here at Disney and it was delightful!  Four of six best friends got together for one fun filled day of laughter, togetherness, matching shirts, about 300 pictures, dancing in Fantasyland, enjoying Christmas decorations, seeing celebrities, dawdling so it takes twice as long to get where we need to go, and did I mention laughter (cuz there was a lot of it)!
Seriously, when my friends and I get together we have the best time ever!
But hey, lets let pictures speak for themselves.

If we were still roommates this could be a Christmas card.


So could this.

Suzanne isn't sitting next to Ariel cuz she hates meeting characters.

But hello it's ARIEL!

The real life Ariel.

And if the four of us were still roommates, this would be mantle picture.

You know, for our mantle.

It was SO GOOD seeing this girl.

She's one of my favorites.

While we were at Magic Kingdom, the Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade that is on ABC, on you guessed it, Christmas Day was being filmed.

Are any of your shocked to learn that it isn't filmed live on Christmas day?

We saw Maria Mennunous and Samantha Brown.

We posed like the toy soldiers.

We took pictures in front of Cinderella's Castle.

Yeah, we're fun.

Oh and those are our heffalumps.

Had a blast in the New Fantasyland.

Rode Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.

Walked around the World Showcase at Epcot!

And finally showed all the other guests that we've got....

PERSONALITY!

Yeah my friends are the greatest. 
And sometimes I forget to thank God for giving me this life.
So God....
THANK YOU! 

December is Here!

Happy First day of December everyone! 

Just wanted to send a quick post out to say that.
Oh and also to announce the winner from the Blue Bird giveaway!
Congratulations Leah, from Lovely Life of Leah!
You are the winner! 
Congratulations! 
Hope the rest of y'alls weekend is great.  

High 5 for Friday

First of all...HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
I missed a post yesterday cuz I wasn't at home.  I ended up spending the whole day with my friend Jordan and didn't write out a post.  
But I hope each and every one of you had a fantastic Thanksgiving!Mine was great!  In fact most of the highlights from my week came from yesterday.
So without further ado, I give you.
1. Seeing Sadie sit in my window sill makes me happy!

2. I decorated my apartment for Christmas!

Today we can officially welcome the Christmas season.

3. Home made Thanksgiving day lunch!

I made my grandmother's broccoli rice and cheese casserole!

YUM!

4. Holiday Sandwich from Earl of Sandwich for Thanksgiving dinner!5. We spent the evening looking at them most spectcular christmas light presentation EVER!The Osbourne Spectacle of Dancing Lights!

Hope y'all have a great holiday weekend!And you still have a few hours left to enter the Blue Bird giveaway!A winner will be announced on Monday.

Again Happy Thankgiving! :)

Me, Myself and I- November

I missed October's Me, Myself and I link up because of my unexpected blogger break.
So I knew I couldn't miss November's!


1. What are your top 5 favorite movies to watch during the Holidays?
LOVE ACTUALLY

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ELF

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THE SANTA CLAUSE

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MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS

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A CHRISTMAS STORY

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2. It's the month of giving thanks, what are you most thankful for?-Family-Friends-Sadie-Life(Tomorrow's post goes into more detail!)

3. If there was a quote or verse to describe your life, what would it be?

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4. Who in your family are you most alike?
Well people say I look most like my mom.

Personality wise I'm a nice mix of my whole family.

5. What is your favorite drink order at Starbucks?
I'd have to go with either a White Chocolate Mocha or an Ices Caramel Macchiato.Yum!

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There ya have it! :)
Happy Thanksgiving EVE! 

Holiday Movies

The holidays are here and with them comes holiday movies.
Now I'm not talking about Christmas movies, which are wonderful in and of themselves.I'm talking about all the movies that Hollywood decides to release for the holiday season.  And boy are there a ton of really great ones that I am just dying to see.  My bank account is going to be in pain by the time January rolls around.  
Thank goodness for my AMC Stubs card! Which if you don't have AMC theatres close to you, it is a program offered by AMC that gives you rewards dollars.  Once you have spent $100 at AMC on either tickets or concessions, you get $10 on your Stubs Card to use as you please.Y'all I'm 30 bucks away from $400.  Which means I have spent almost $400 at the movies since last October.  Yeah, wrap your minds around that.What can I say, I love the movies.
Anyway, this holiday season has promised to basically rock our world with great movies.Here are the ones that I am dying to see.

LincolnI've actually already seen this one and it was AMAZING!Daniel Day-Lewis does an phenomenal job portraying Lincoln.  It's actually kind of scary how closely he resembles Lincoln.  It was comical in parts, it was intense, and of course it was sad.  I can totally see this film doing extremely well when the Oscars roll around.
 
Anna KareninaI've never read the book, but I love Keira Knightly and this is from the same director as Pride and Prejudice and Atonement.  Which were two films that I really enjoyed as well.  


HitchcockI think this has the potential to be an excellent film. Helen Miran is great and from the looks of it, Anthony Hopkins is going to kick ass as Alfred Hitchcock!



Le MiserablesIf just the trailer gives me chills, I can't imagine what the whole movie will do to me.

Django UnchainedI'm not a huge Quintin Tarentino fan (I hate the Kill Bill movies) but I did love Inglorious Basterds.And this movie has Leonardo DiCaprio.  He is all the reason I need.

There are a couple others I'd like to see but those are my top 5!What holiday movies do y'all want to see in theatres?
Oh and don't forget to enter my Blue Bird Giveaway!

Blue Bird Giveaway

Boy do I have a treat for y'all on this fine Monday!I am hosting a GIVEAWAY!
I'm partnering up with Diane from Blue Bird Bride.  One of the cutest jewelry boutiques you will find on Etsy.  She specializes in the famous Bubble Necklace that has been floating around the blogosphere forever.
But she also has tons of other really great jewelry that would add to any outfit.With Christmas just around the corner any of her pieces would make amazing Christmas gifts.
She even has some awesome specials going on that would make your holiday shopping super easy!
Today she if offering one lucky Places I Will Go reader a $20 gift card to her Etsy shop!Here are just a few of my favorite pieces from Blue Bird.

Use the rafflecopter below to enter!  The giveaway will run through Friday and a winner will be announced next Monday!
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Diane is also offering a coupon to all Places I Will Go Readers!Just enter FALL2012 during checkout and you'll save 15%.

Now head over to Blue Bird and get to shopping!