Sundance

The obligatory festival picture in front of the Egyptian theater on Main St

So this last weekend was busy, but fun. John and I drove down to Bountiful on Saturday morning to meet up with Shylow and Greg and headed up to Park City to see some Sundance films. This is the first year I have gone to the festival with actual tickets to shows since John and I were both lucky enough to get time slots to buy tickets for the locals lottery. I've gone in past years to wait list films, and that has always been successful, but it was still nice to have tickets.

Anyway, we went to the Animation shorts spotlight in the afternoon. Besides the fact it was freezing in the theater, the films were pretty good. It was interesting to see the variety of animation styles and techniques and of course the randomness of the the film subjects. They were all good though...the final film was the craziest of all...someone's version of US History that involved an epic battle between cowboys and astronauts in Las Vegas.

After that, we decided against wait listing another film and just headed to Main Street to find some food and see the sites. We ended up eating at a pub called Doolans or something and the food was pretty good. Shylow got a "stinky burger" though (that's what it was called on the menu, or maybe the smelly burger). It had garlic and bleu cheese...it lived up to it's name. Good thing I had some gum for him afterward.

Eating at Doolans

So then we just walked around for awhile because we had plenty of time to spare before our second film. We stopped at this little deli, so I decided to get some ice cream for dessert. I should have waited though because later we saw a place with Gelato, but I was so full and I guess you only need ice cream once a night. We also checked out this mall place, where we found this giant boot, so of course I made John pose for a picture. If any of you have ever seen the giant show he has, you'll understand why it's fitting.

John and the big boot :-)

We finally headed back to the theater for our second film, which was the Jury Grand Prize Dramatic film and ended up being "Frozen River" which was really good.

At the end of the night, we were very tired but we had a good time. And no, we didn't see any "stars" but I've never really been star struck anyway so I didn't care. I'm planning to take a few days to see films next year (since I won't have school...finally) if I can get tickets again...so for you planners, plan ahead if you want to come along.