So...Last night I was watching The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe with my wife and my daughter while eating dinner. Nothing fancy - kabobbed chicken marinated in a souvlaki sauce, a sauteed melange of vegetables (tomatoes, onions, peppers, and zucchini) with some crumbled feta, and some rice pilaf. I only mention the dinner, because it is relevant to the following.
For those who have not seen the film, it is an excellent adaptation of the C.S. Lewis source work of the same name - complete with a unicorn. More on the relevance of the unicorn momentarily.
As I mentioned, we were eating dinner while watching. Not an uncommon practice in my house - the three of us sitting in a tight grouping, my five year-old daughter between me and my wife, often discussing the movie we're watching.
By the time the movie reached the climactic battle (see picture above), my five-year old daughter and my wife had finished her dinner and moved to the couch. As I was feeding our infant daughter with one hand, and eating with the other for the first half of my dinner, I was the lone family member still eating.I had just shoveled a fork-full of rice into my mouth when my eldest innocently asked her mother, "why is Peter on a unicorn?"
To which my wife replied, "maybe he just enjoys the smoooooth ride."
I nearly blew rice out my nose.
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