Banana Munki

Stands at the carnival

There’s been a festival and the carnival came to town. We’re visiting grandmother and this town is small so when we made the trip out there right after lunch there were only a few number of other families with young children there. Later in the afternoon and in the evening after work hours is when the carnival usually overflow with visitors… and alcohol.

So it seemed like a ghost carnival and there weren’t any carousels for children that an adult could ride along with which seemed unfair. Cristiano is too young to ride alone and that’s too bad because I really wanted him to experience it. He didn’t appear to be disapointed by that anyway and running around the field with mom chasing him to make sure he didn’t go hurt himself was most likely more fun to him than any ride in this point of his life.

It was really hot that day, allowing for less clothes. Spring has definitly arrived, finally!

Snapped quite a few pictures from the carnival, some of which Cristiano’s back is turned towards me (and the camera) running away being energetic and prankish. I liked the paintings.

Following my son around the carnival with camera as he run around.

One of the attractions at the carnival.

Snap shot of some stands.

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I used to think these were idiotic. I decided to get a stroller nametag, having managed pushing the stroller around for 1½ year without one – because now I think they’re cool

(I am linking these photos from Flickr which is why these images are a different size than most others in my blog. Not that you care.)

Make-it-yourself nameplate from toystore BRIO

Not totally satisfied, had major problems with the letter C but.... Finished!

Attached to the stroller

I would much better have prefered the numbers ”08″ over the flag, Cristiano is a 08-born child

Mini info:
This Action | Mystery | Thriller star actors like Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas, Michael Stahl-David, Mike Vogel and Odette Yustman. Rated PG-13 for violence, terror and disturbing images it has a user rating of 7.4/10 based on 131,005 votes at the imdb (Internet Movie Database).

Story:
In Cloverfield (2008) we follow the perspective of a hand-held video camera during a party held for a young man named Rob who’s leaving New York to work in Japan. His friend Hud is recording messages from his friends when the lights go out and the ground begins to shake.
(Not going to spoil the movie. Additional story can be found at the imdb.)

Additional Details:
”1-18-08″ – USA (promotional title)
”Monstrous” – USA (promotional title)
”Cloverfield: Hakaisha” – Japan (English title)

Filming Locations:
Bloomingdale’s Department Store, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA See more »

My review and rate:
Cloverfield was something different and I like that. What I also liked is the clear images of the creature. Sometimes, in an otherwise good movie, the image is dark when creatures are filmed. IE covering up the low budget placed in creating a creature. Besides that I liked the different approach in the way it was filmed, the fact that it is recorded as it was a hand-held video camera carried by one of the actors, I also liked the story. Cloverfield is in my opinion a good movie and it had the best ending I’ve seen in a good while and I give it 5 stars out of 5 possible. I totally recommend it and I could watch it one more time and I look forward to doing so. Three or so weeks after watching this movie it is still in my mind, stil not forgotten like most movies I watch.

Rating:

Screenshots:

I have no screenshots at the moment. (I will update this post when I get a hold of the movie)

Web of rollercoaster tracks

We thought we would make the trip to the season opening of the local amusement park for Cristiano to experience the adventure and fun. We took the ferry instead of the buss to create a fun start to the evening but he’s probably too young to appreciate that yet, he just didn’t show any interest at all :-p .

I’ve become too old for roller coasters. I enjoyed this place when I was a child and so did my sons father. The amusement park is old and probably has changed much since it opened in 1883. Besides the amusement rides there are theatres and scenes for performance. There was a stage at the side of park that’s for children that held a theatrical performance about pirates that we stayed to watch for Cristiano and he seemed to enjoy it because his focus was on the stage the whole time.

Before I continue I have to confess that I prior to this visit to the amusement park never had even tried one bite of the legendary Ben & Jerry which is on everyone’s lips both literary and not. Destiny interfered – I stood in line to an ice-cream stand with my son in the stroller. The line was long and wasn’t moving much at all so he got bored and started becoming whiny so I left the queue before he would start crying hence I got no ice-cream but I really wanted one and the urge for one didn’t pass. While Antonio was watching Cristiano (we take turns to gain back strength and energy because our son is really one (5 hands) hand full) and while they were checking out some odd tree monster that caught our sons attention I noticed a Ben&Jerry parlour and decided to get my ice-cream there. I can’t remember which flavours I finally decided on but I got two scoops in a waffle cone. In mind that the whole world seem addicted to these two guys I took the first taste and wasn’t pleased at all but as I finished the ice-cream one of these two flavours exploded with a delicious taste. So it now appears I am also a Ben&Jerry fan, actually!

There was a small ”thing” that day which totally made me snap. As a Cappuccino lover I get one on the go ceveral times per week.  So I wanted one and the girl handed me a barely medium size cup that wasn’t even filled to the half with Cappuccino that I had payed almost $3 for. This cup of Cappuccino was a joke and I said to the girl that ”THIS cost almost $3?? It’s not even half a cup!” She basically ignored me and I flipped throwing the cup on the table. If I had payed $3 for this joke of Cappuccino I could just as well  through it away. She could at least have offered to fill the cup! – Not very mature is it? *not proud*

We stayed through-out the afternoon and made it back home around 8pm. Before we called it a day we walked into the City to check out some stores and I came home with a new jacket and some jerseys! I am going to upload photos that I took and paste here below.

Pink limo at the entrance

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There were many people enjoying the warm afternoon in the City this beautiful spring day. As did we. I took a walk with Cristiano in the stroller after lunch to walk off some of the food I ate.

We walked towards downtown and turned back towards home on another road rounding Slussen.

Before we took the buss home we stopped to play at the big playground by Medborgarplatsen.

Parts of the day were sunny, but not at all when I photographed or filmed, naturally. Below you’ll find a couple images & a video clip from this beautiful Sunday.

Skateboarding at Medborgarplatsen

Cristiano in sandbox

Cristiano in sandbox img2

Cristiano and the train

For years I have used DeviantArt as a source for graphics such as icons and wallpapers for personal use. Didn’t think I would one day be a deviant myself . I created a DeviantArt account for the purpose of that I hope to receive feedback on a couple of my designs. With designs I mean screen captures of PSD files, website themes that are no more than PSD files at this point. I don’t know what to do with them and I hope that by the opinions of others I can make a decision. Visit my DeviantART profile by clicking the link at the bottom of this blog post.

Two options to consider:

1. Make the PSD files public with a Creative Commons License
2. Turn the PSD’s into WordPress themes – if so do I charge or not?