George had to play tonight and the kids had had a bit of a rough day, so I decided to have a girls’ movie night to cheer everyone up. We had just gotten Kung Fu Panda and I knew they would probably love it.

After George left, I popped them into a quick bath to relax them a bit and once they were in their pajamas I spread out a quilt on the floor in the living room. While I had some green tea for my throat (and green tea is pretty appropriate for a kung fu movie set in China!), they had a small bag of chips each and some juice and we settled in to watch it.

It was such a great movie (yes, I write for PittWatch and yet I had not seen it yet – I don’t get to see many movies until they’re out on DVD). The kids enjoyed it, Hayley in particular, and I loved being able to laugh at some of the jokes that they didn’t quite get.

Jack Black was so perfect for the voice of Po and naturally I loved Angelina Jolie as the voice of Tigress. It was all very cute and funny and exciting. I enjoyed seeing cartoon renditions of some of the animal forms that I used to learn back when I did kung fu (especially Tiger and Snake).

The only problem I had was during one of the training scenes there were bowls full of Chinese dumplings and now I’m craving some with no way to have any. Alas, my beer and Tandoori BBQ chips* will have to do somehow.

And with that, I’m off to find another movie to watch now that the kids are finally asleep!

*Seriously. Tandoori BBQ chips. It’s like worlds colliding. Someone took one of my favorite foods (chips) and combined it with one of my other favorite foods (anything Indian) and they are SO GOOD.