Update on the Famous Players situation:
Hooray for my principal, Ms. Ellen Walters. When I explained the movie trip situation to her this morning and handed her the correspondence I'd exchanged with Famous Players she got right on the phone determined to work things out. At last word it still looks like our 9:30 morning booking is cancelled, but they are working to get us into the 11:30 show, which is the first public showing of the day. It won't be as exclusive and spacious as the first booking (as opposed to the 11:30 crowds for the first public showing of the first day of Harry Potter...), but if they can guarantee us seats on that opening day, I'll accept that. Now we're looking to see how that will affect our lunch plans. But regardless of how it all turns out, three cheers for my principal for all her support.
We had a beautiful moving Remembrance Day service in the school today. The gym was hushed and dark, the older students recited poems and performed skits, our two Gr. 5 classes sang "Where Have All The Flowers Gone?" and the memorial ended with an emotional candlelight procession using James Horner's recessional music from "Titanic" (music that can make me cry in far less moving settings than this). A perfect memory for the day.
Hooray for my principal, Ms. Ellen Walters. When I explained the movie trip situation to her this morning and handed her the correspondence I'd exchanged with Famous Players she got right on the phone determined to work things out. At last word it still looks like our 9:30 morning booking is cancelled, but they are working to get us into the 11:30 show, which is the first public showing of the day. It won't be as exclusive and spacious as the first booking (as opposed to the 11:30 crowds for the first public showing of the first day of Harry Potter...), but if they can guarantee us seats on that opening day, I'll accept that. Now we're looking to see how that will affect our lunch plans. But regardless of how it all turns out, three cheers for my principal for all her support.
We had a beautiful moving Remembrance Day service in the school today. The gym was hushed and dark, the older students recited poems and performed skits, our two Gr. 5 classes sang "Where Have All The Flowers Gone?" and the memorial ended with an emotional candlelight procession using James Horner's recessional music from "Titanic" (music that can make me cry in far less moving settings than this). A perfect memory for the day.