Trick or Treat - Valdivia Style

Instead of trying to explain to you how we spent our Halloween evening, it's best to quote an email I sent to Sally Parish, regarding a movie she let us borrow called North & South (by BBC). A small background on this movie and another (Pride & Prejudice) that I will mention throughout this post, is that those two movies are both several hours long and are on 2 discs.

Enjoy!!

Sally ~

You are about to have a good laugh... prepare thyself!

We decided to go ahead and watch North & South on Halloween instead of Pride & Prejudice this year (but we will be seeing Pride & Prejudice before the 1st of the year, you can count on that!), so Mom popped the disc in and we all settled in with the Ben & Jerry's of our choice ;) What a lovely combination it makes! A family movie with your own Ben & Jerry's ice cream container... truly there isn't anything better! ;)

Well, the whole first part of the movie made absolutely no sense! So we all kept saying to each other that it was like Pride & Prejudice, so we might have to watch it a couple times before we fully understand the story. And when Thornton and Margaret were united at the end of the first disc, we couldn't imagine where the movie could possibly go from there. And then we popped in the second disc and everyone who was dead was alive again, and it was like Back to the Future! We all commented how terrible the directing was.

Then we had a horrible, awful.... HILARIOUS revelation!

We watched the second disc first.

So we all hated the movie, had a good time, and went to bed. It probably would have been a decent watch if we had watched it in the proper order, but we don't have the stamina to start at the (right) beginning again ;)

Joking aside, we did make the best of it and watched it as a "mystery" and put the pieces together from the "first" half, which was quite revealing! If you've never watched a 5 hour movie like this before, TRY IT! It really puts you on an emotional roller coaster!

Thanks for letting us borrow it, though. If it weren't for our "blind faith" that you guys put the discs in the right order in the DVD case, we may have watched it correctly last night. But we're not blaming you ;) We're blaming our lack of observation skills =D

Thanks for providing the Valdivias with a unique family movie experience =D

God bless and hope to see you all again soon!

Megan (with lots o' love!)

P.S. Honestly, it WAS a fun night and we enjoyed ourselves immensely!

Read Garrett's version of our Halloween night!

Image courtesy of Foolish Passion