Laurie, Kelly, and I watched the Academy Awards at the Kiggins Theater in Vancouver, and boy, was that the correct choice. There were prizes! Laurie won!
And so did I!
The Kiggins gave everyone a raffle ticket with a nominee on it; if your nominee won, you got a prize. And then, because turnout was a bit light, we got extra tickets.
After each award was given and the broadcast went to commercial, the Kiggins people had the gift certificate donor come up and talk about their Main Street Business, and then hand out the award. It was like we had our own awards ceremony, and we also got to learn a ton about downtown Vancouver businesses.
I won because the person who really won wasn’t there, and I had best sound in a different category, and they gave me the prize, which was to a music store. A woman offered to trade her prize (a comic book store) and I did. So now I have $50 to spend!
Us after the show.
We also played the Happiest Oscar Viewer game. It was the kind of Oscars where I wasn’t overly excited for many categories, so I wasn’t happy very often. But also wasn’t annoyed.
Also, this quote from David Chen was spot on and made me laugh.
