Back to Narnia

Betty and I went to see the movie "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" today. We've been looking forward to this movie for over a year. In February of 2007 we were able to take a three week trip to New Zealand. As part of that trip we visited the South Island to a place called Glenorchy, NZ. We took two horse back rides that day. The morning ride was the Rings Tour ride and it went through several areas where the Lord of the Rings was filmed. We saw where Frodo met the elves for the first time, the place where Borimer died, and the mountains in the mountain crossing scenes. Betty even rode a horse that had been used in the movie.

During that ride they said that we would pass a new set for the second Chronicles of Narnia movie. We rode about 15 feet from some workmen doing some paint touch up on this huge, gnarled tree stump. We were told that we couldn't take pictures, so we didn't. So it was neat to see our stump in the early part of the movie today:


On our afternoon ride we did a ride called the Dart River ride. This was one of the areas from the Lord of the Rings where Gandalf did his long horseback ride during the third movie. We were pleasantly surprised to see the Dart River in today's movie as well:


It's a fun movie and we enjoyed it very much. It was also fun to have been where some of the scenes were filmed for this movie and the Lord of the Rings.

If today, May 24, is your birthday you share a birthday with: Bob Dylan (folksinger), Gary Burghoff (Radar on MASH), Patti LaBelle (singer), and Priscilla Presley (Elvis' wife).