Yuengling, Cabela's, and Bad Movies

It's the last day of my break! I didn't do one productive thing every day like I had hoped, but I did do several productive things in several days that make up for the one or two days that I...didn't. In my defense, one of the days I "did nothing", C and I took a road trip to "America's Oldest Brewery", The Yuengling Brewery in Pottsville, PA.

It was a lot of fun. I've never been to a brewery before, or on a brewery tour, but they had lots of interesting facts. We took a TON of pictures....everything looked so coool! They even took us underground to their cave where they used to ferment and store their beer, and had a wall up from the Prohibition Era when the goverment tried to block off access to their cave so they couldn't make beer (in case you were wondering, it didn't work, and the day Prohibition ended they sent a truck load of beer to the White House!) I even liked the canning process, though initially I was disappointed that it was a canning day instead of bottling. But whatevs, still very cool. Oh, and they give you a sample beer at the end of the tour. Oh Em.Gee. I have never tasted beer so cool, crisp....factory fresh! It was delicious.

And we went to Cabela's. It was C's first time. That was an adventure in itself! If you don't know what Cabela's is, it's basically an outdoors superstore...with lots of taxidermy. This one had "scenes." There was a safari scene with, among other animals, a tiger and a giant stuffed elephant (C's least favorite part), an Arctic "scene" with polar bears, otters, etc., a huge deer room (loooots of heads on the walls, along with the ones standing), and a mini aquarium. And we both got some boots!

The next day I was sick. And we were supposed to go to NYC to see Dave Attel for my friend's birthday. So C went, and I stayed home, under 2 blankets, in front of tube, with Hall's cough drops, lots of day/night time medicine, a box of tissues, orange juice, water, a garbage can, my cell phone, and the remote all within reach. And I watched crappy TV, as all good patients should do. I saw The Bounty Hunter and Did You Hear About The Morgans (both of which I really wanted to see...gaaaawd were they awful!).

Sarah Jessica Parker and Hugh Grant looked really, really old. Too old to be in any sort of romantic comedy where they are posing as "a young couple." Plus, they didn't pull off being a realistic couple at all. I kept wondering "But where's Big??" And the whole premise was just too ridiculous {Spoiler Alert}
...he cheats on her, he tries to win her back, she goes to see a client and he goes with her, the client drops dead from his 5 story apartment right in front of them, the killer sees them and tries to kill them, they are put in Witness Protection and sent to Wyoming, where they rekindle their love.

W.T.F.

And, without going into the same amount of detail...The Bounty Hunter was just as ridiculous. Even Gerard Butler's attractiveness couldn't save the movie. Le sigh. Thank goodness I saw True Grit a few days earlier so I know cinema is not quite dead yet.