Last Saturday morning, Mr. W and I were out of the house at 7:30a to go line up for the 9:15a showing of Harry Potter in 3D at the Imax. I didn’t have expectations of the movie going in and I thought the movie was quite good (I like the young man that Harry is growing into, aesthetically speaking), but Mr. W and his female best friend (whom we met up with there along with her girlfriend) are Harry Potter fanatics and loved every minute. Of course they’d already read the books and couldn’t help commenting and revealing plot lines as the story unfolded on the 7-story high-def screen. The 3D effects were good; they did a solid 15 minute segment of a battle scene in 3D. Pretty neat experience.

After the movie, the four of us had lunch at P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, a first for me. I’d heard rave reviews of the place but had always been skeptical because it didn’t seem like it would be “real” Chinese to me. After eating there, my general impression of the place is that it wasn’t as bad as I thought it’d be, but the food tended to be over-seasoned (i.e., salty), but that the sea bass was one of the best I’d ever eaten. Plus, I got to use the $30 giftcard to the restaurant that my previous bailiff had given me for Christmas last year. I’ve been burning giftcards left and right after realizing my purse lining was about to explode with them.

Between the movie and lunch, I ran across some upcoming The Simpsons Movie publicity props, and was initiated into the Simpson family. See for yourself:

I’m learning to be like Jordan and whipping out the cameraphone everywhere I go.