The real reason behind our Campbell River stop

So, now it can finally be told, the actual ultimate reason why we put in at Campbell River. Not to drop Mandy off for her plane, not to do laundry, or fuel up, or take on provisions, no... nothing so mundane. The real reason is that this is the first available port of call where "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" could be found playing.

So we went to see it this afternoon. What a fun ride! I thought it had all the right touches in it referring back to the previous movies while avoiding being just a boring re-hash of them. The story wouldn't win any awards but then they never have, having always been intentionally rather cheesy pastiches of old B-move adventures. But many of the old characters are back, sadly excepting Denholm Elliot, who had passed on since the last film (although his memory receives a surprisingly active cameo in an early action sequence) and John Rhys-Davies, whose Egyptian character would probably have been difficult to work into this primarily South American plot.

I enjoyed it immensely and was doubly happy to find it playing here since I had been looking forward to it so much but thinking that I probably wouldn't be seeing it until it came out on DVD, since it will certainly be out of theaters by the time we return from the trip.