“We’re going to see Star Wars! Come on!”
I lay on the couch, exhausted from my last final, and peered at my roommate. “What’s that?”
“A movie I’ve been waiting for months to see it. You’ll love it!”
I’d never heard of it before but I went with Joanne, Julie, Steve and Jack.
We stood in line three hours–through at least one showing–at Grauman’s Chinese Theater.
When the words began to crawl across the screen for what became A New Hope, my life entered a new era.
Where it’s been ever since.
Had I realized how Star Wars would play throughout my life, I would have paid more attention.
(Maybe I did pay attention. I saw it five times the first year . . . )
The water came from a galaxy not too far away this time.
What about the Star Wars Birthday?
40 years later, I didn’t bat an eye when we received an invitation to a Star Wars 30th birthday party.
(Note: none of our children, true fans, were there).
We had a splendid time admiring both the clever punny titles for food and the games.
I know some of you want some of these ideas.
So the rest of this post is photos with some commentary.
May the force be with you . . . always!
Food
The birthday boy’s wife, sister, and two friends made the clever and delicious food.
Delicious and not deadly.
They labeled the meat, “Hoth dogs and Han burgers.”
An eight year-old asked, “What is this creepy thing holding the sign?”
We loved this salad.
Don’t you love the character touches? That’s him holding the sign.
Unusual flavor; the red is watermelon. Tomatoes might have been tastier for Boba
Even the “buns” were tasty.
Almost too much artistry displayed to eat!
The BB-8 cake pops took the cook a long time to create, but were fun to eat.
Games
One game listed all the movie titles on separate cards. The aim was to put them in the correct order.
Some of the younger people figured the order out effortlessly.
I, however, ordered the titles by the year I saw the movie . . . but the clone titles confused me–weren’t they all sort-of cloned from the original?
The children giggled playing the Ewok toss.
The rules–video depicts actual game play
The lightsaber game, however, took more skill than most of us had!
Note: This house was located in the Coffey Park area of Santa Rosa and burned to the ground on October 9, 2017.
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