Today for Mother's Day, Kyle and Emily took me on a Mother's Day date. They took me to a special monkey movie at the science center. It was an early preview of "
Born to be Wild" on the IMAX screen. It was pretty special. It shows two special parks that are caring for and rehabilitating orphaned elephants and orangutans. At this showing was the director of the Orangutan Foundation International who has lived and worked with the orangutans for many years, Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas. Also there were the movie's producers and John Kay from Steppenwolf (band that sings "Born to be Wild"). Needless to say it was a pretty special event.
Right as the movie started, Kyle, the biggest monkey lover among us, decided he didn't want to watch the movie. I tell him it will be okay because there are monkeys in it so he's momentarily comforted. But it was very dark and too big of a theater. Plus it was domed so it gives a different, wide open, moving type feeling. It can easily be overwhelming. So they lights dim, movie credits start, Kyle loses it, screams out "I don't want to see this!", whole theater finds it amusing and laughs, Kyle and I exit, I try to comfort him and coax him back in, ushers try to tell him it's a good movie, (it really is - nothing scary) monkeys come on the screen, we step back in, Kyle gets the biggest smile a teary boy could possibly have and we watch the movie. But first, we retrieve Emily who was sitting quite nicely by herself watching the movie, and sit down closer to the exit for any further tears (which there were but quickly recovered). But we got to enjoy a pretty spectacular movie. And we got an autograph from both Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas & John Kay before we went home.
**Funny story from the movie: At one point there is a large male orangutan swimming through the swamp toward the camera. The commentary is about the male orangutan and how he weighs nearly 300 pounds. Emily comments how big the orangutan is and how he weighs "almost as much as Kyle's bike!" His bike really weighs a ton and just the other day she commented out loud how she thought it weighed 300 pounds. I love how her mind thinks and connects - too funny!
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| Having our picnic before the movie |
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| Waiting in line for the IMAX movie |
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| Monkeys in line |
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| In the theater |
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| Emily ready for showtime |
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| Kyle in the theater ready for the show |
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| After the show, Kyle reading his monkey book |
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| Emily reading the Orangutan brochure |
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| Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas & John Kay |
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| The slideshow after the movie |
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| Cute orangutan |
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| Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas & John Kay signing |
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