UP

William and I went and saw UP in 3-D by Pixar last weekend and I am only now blogging about it because I can now finally talk about it without crying. Yes, I am OFFICIALLY a bawl baby as I cried after the first ten minutes of the movie and then on and off throughout the rest of the film. I couldn't even talk about it with William afterwards because I would start crying. The movie just touched a chord with me- I won't spoil it for those who haven't seen it yet. I very highly recommend this movie more for adults than kids even- William and I both though that it was a more "adult" issue than some of the other films- but kids too would still like it for the balloons, animals, and adventures that they do have.

At the end of the film, they go to this ice cream place called Fenton's. I thought that they had just made it up but William told me that there was actually an ice cream place he had been to in Oakland. After the film, we went to the temple and since we were already in Oakland, decided to visit the real Fenton's Creamery. Workers at Pixar actually frequent this creamery pretty often and so they specifically wanted it to be in the movie.
We split a burger in order that we would have room for our own ice cream desserts. William got a custom creation made up of chocolate peanut butter ice cream and butter pecan topped with chocolate peanut butter sauce (on the left) whereas I got the "Cookie Connection" made up of cookies and cream ice cream, cookie dough ice cream, a chocolate chip cookie on the bottom, and marshmellow and hot fudge (on the right). I was not a fan of the hot fudge, but the marshmellow was INCREDIBLE! It was heaven- especially with the other ice creams and cookie. I will definitely get that next time on the whole sundae.

And don't worry- between the two of us, we managed to scrape the bowls clean.
It definitely was an "UP" Saturday!