Trilobite

Last night Celine came over and we watched a few of Grandpa’s super 8 movies. One of them was filmed in Miami sometime in the mid-seventies and had a long segment of Grandma feeding the seagulls. I wonder if that was where Grandpa took the picture of her feeding the seagulls that Dad has a big poster-sized print of. They also went sightseeing at Coral Castle, which really surprised me and Celine. (Warning: clicking that link will play Zamfir covering a Celine Dion song!) We’ve talked about that place for years, but I never knew that Grandma and Grandpa went there. It was amazing to see how easily the 9-ton doorway spun on it’s hinge.

After Celine left I pulled some really old reels of film out from the bottom of the box. I think some of them were taken before my parents even met each other! Unfortunately, the projector started to eat the film and I didn’t get to see any of them. It only chewed up the film header on one of the movies and none of the actual movie was damaged, but I think I’ll have to find out how to stop it from happening again. Maybe all it would take is a good cleaning to make the projector work better.