Audrey ordered PENNE CONTADINA: Fresh tomatoes, basil, garlic, onions & fresh mozzarella and Steve had FILETTO Beef tenderloin, mushrooms & mozzarella, side of rigatoni in a Porcini mushroom cream sauce & sausage. The service was efficient, if a bit brisk. The food was tasty and plentiful. One small complaint: the garlic rolls were so spicy hot that they were almost inedible.
For us, the occasion so overshadowed the meal that a good experience was guaranteed. A more objective evaluation of our food would rank it as somewhat less than we had hoped for, however.
THE GOLDEN COMPASS is a movie made from a book that AUDREY had read, so she was eager to see it. She said that the movie stayed true to the book and that she found them both entertaining. "I liked the book -- I did not love the book" she said. She was grateful that the movie sanitized the story, somewhat, by removing objectionable material dealing with children suffering at the hands of adults. Audrey is a Nicole Kidman fan and was impressed by her performance.STEVE enjoyed the high quality of the special effects and battle-action, but the storyline in the middle scenes was not enough to overcome my sleep-deprivation. Even though my wife later informed me of the important plot-twist that I had missed during a brief nap, I found the movie much less interesting than The Lord of the Rings and Narnia. This show seemed to me to be a mixture of those two with some Harry Potter thrown in. While I did not hate The Golden Compass, I am not likely to return to the inevitable sequel.
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