Nathans been taking swimming lessons this week and next and doing very well. They let them jump off the big and small diving boards at the end.
Sunday, August 2, 2015
Sunday, July 19, 2015
Ben and Nathans Excellent Movie Adventures: The Karate Kid
This last Monday we visited the shooting locations of the movie The Karate Kid. Because it's The Karate Kid the boys did Karate poses
This is where they shot the High school scenes in the Reseda area, it used to be an actual working high school, but now it's an Adult Education Center. This is where they shot the parking lot scenes.
This was the commons area
The lockers when Ali
The field where Ali had cheerleading practice and other scenes took place
The gym where the dance was, it's a warehouse now, they let us go in to take a quick picture.
This is the outside of the apartment complex where Daniel lived
The courtyard/pool area
This I believe was Mr. Myagi's Workshop, also on the right was the fence/field where Daniel was running from the Cobra Kai in the skeleton Halloween disguises and was saved by Mr. Myagi.
This was the outside of the Cobra Kai Dojo in Burbank, its now an aerobics gym.
Here's the sites I used to find these places.
Summer Band Concert
Ben took a summer Band Camp and on Thursday they had a concert. All of the instruments had a solo moment besides playing as a group.
Sunday, July 5, 2015
Ben and Nathans Excellent Movie Adventures: ET
Monday we went to pick up Charlotte from the airport and on the way we stopped in Porter Ranch in the neighborhoods where the movie ET was filmed. The first 3 pictures is where Elliot, Gertie and ET went trick or Treating.
This is where Gertie was waiting for the other kids, a website says that the chain link fence was replaced with this metal one.
This is the backdrop that Spielberg used for the bike flight scenes.
This is where the bus stop scene was shot.
These pictures are a few places where the shot the police/bike chase.
This Park is Porter Ridge Park (ET park by the locals) is where Elliots friends met up with him and started the chase. The caterpillar is still around.
This next street was where all of the boys rode down the street at took off into the air.
Smash Bros Championship
Ben had a Smash Bros Championship. His friend Josh came and he was supposed to have more, but they couldn't show so Nathan jumped in.
Monday, June 22, 2015
Ben and Nathan's Excellent (Summer) Adventures: Back to the Future
This Summer I decided that we live in the Hollywood area with all this rich movie history, but we never venture out to go see it, so were going to get outside away from video games and those book things.(there's nothing wrong with video games, its just good to get out every once in awhile go on your own adventures) I felt like Back to the Future would be a great movie to start with since its such an iconic movie with iconic places that many people has seen, plus it involves time travel which is awesome!
We started with the opening scene of the movie, in the movie Marty skateboards around town and passes a Burger King with happens to be in Burbank, once that we had eaten there once without knowing its history. Then when he gets to the main downtown area that was filmed at the Universal Studios theme park on the tram ride. We're not going to bother doing that since you can't get off the tram and take pictures and its expensive.
This is a video of the opening scene for comparison.
The building that he comes out of which is supposed to be Doc Browns home is a Hobby Lobby now.
My Delorean Lego car
This is a house in Pasadena where Marty's Father George McFly lived, its was funny the 1950's house they used for George, Loraine (Marty's Mother) and Biff Tannen's (the Bully) were all on the same block. We made sure to stay on the street so as to not disturb the residence.
Loraine's House
I believe this was the tree that George fell out of and depending on the timeline was hit by Loraine's Father's car.
This is a video of the scene for comparison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SgZwt5xO3I
Biff Tannen's House
Doc Brown's home
This is the Gamble Home and they actually have tours through the home, but we didn't do it since we read that it didn't have anything to do with the movie since its a historical landmark even before they made the movie.
This was the Burbank Community Center where the Band auditions took place, Huey Lewis was one of the judges and I believe his band members were part of Marty's band.
This is a video of the scene for comparison
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