First stop was Denny's for breakfast. Someone once wanted to know what is served at Denny's so I snapped a picture of the morning breakfast menu. Normal things like pancakes, bacon and eggs, toast (not huge portions but serviceable).
But there were also un-Denny like things on the Japanese breakfast menu such as fermented beans, grilled fish, udon noodles. I opted for some cheese toast and vegetable soup (normal soup but there were some bamboo shoots in it too) and Tetsu went Japanese style with rice, miso soup, fermented beans(see how sticky they are on his chopsticks!) and bacon and eggs. And lots of coffee.
And after that we went to the movie theater and saw Alice in Wonderland... Johnny Depp style. That was sort of fun. We saw it with Japanese voice over because I'd heard that trying to read those subtitles while watching the 3-D screen can be tiring on the eyes (for Tetsu). I can manage listening to the Japanese without getting headaches better than he can read the subtitles.Alice in Wonderland brought back memories of my father who was a great Lewis Carroll fan. Although my father wasn't "fatherly" in many senses of the word, I do remember sitting together with him in his chair when I was 4 or 5 and listening to him read Alice in Wonderland (no picture books. The whole shebang from start to finish. AND Alice in the Lookinglass.) I loved to hear him recite the Jabberwocky to me in his rolling voice and just to please my father I memorized the Jabberwocky too. Yesterday while watching the movie I found myself going through the poem and wondering what my father would have thought of Johnny Depp's portrayal of the Mad Hatter.
...And the mome raths outgrabe.
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How cool that you have Denny's there, I also went to Alice in Wonderland with my grown son of 26 - it was lots of fun. Take care - Diana
Interesting menu! I never liked Alice - maybe because I got called Alice in Wonderland so often. I'd get so mad and let them know my NAME ISN'T ALICE.
Lord of the Rings - that's more my style, lol.
What a nice day for the two of you !
I haven't seen the Johnny Depp 'Alice' film yet, but it's had mixed reviews here. But your post reminded me of times with my father when I was young. He read to me a lot, but my memories are of it being Dickens. He used to buy children's abbreviated versions of the novels, and I loved them. I still love to read Dickens, so he obviously set me on the right path.
I thoroughly enjoyed this Alice film when I saw it a few weeks back. And I grew up in an Alice-loving family. Our poem was "The Walrus and the Carpenter," and we still can recite most of it.
I memorized the Jabberwocky in high school. As with you, most of it is still with me. :)
When we brought our daughter home from the hospital, the first thing my husband did was sit on the couch and begin to read Alice to her. I don't know that he read it a second time, but she got a dose in her first 24 hours!!
Thanks for the memories!
"... and the vorpel blade went snicker-snack." At least now that we've seen the movie, we know what a bandersnatch looks like. :)
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