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Family Movie Night

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For Family Home Evening this week we watched the movie Journey to the Center of the Earth in 3D. The kids thought it was great fun and especially liked that we all sat down together wearing 3D glasses.



There were a few scary bits and Reid did quite a few "jumps", especially during the prehistoric fish parts. They were pretty nasty looking though.

Reid spent most of the movie exclaiming that someone threw water at him, or birds were flying out of the TV. I don't think he's seen anything in 3-D before.

In all it was a clean family movie and a fun way to spend a Monday evening.

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