Drive-in Bliss

Last night I took I. on a suprise adventure to the depth on New York State. She might have thought we were going to a rodeo, a hot air balloon ride, a sightseeing trip to Niagra Falls, or some such thing. It was a five month present and i had been thinking about it for a very long time. I wanted it to be special and something not usually done. So maybe a hot air balloon ride would have been a really good idea (why didn't I think of it earlier??), but no it was actually a Drive-In movie theatre.

I had called around to a couple different drive-ins but they were all playing cheesy movies like "Shaggy Dog" or "Cars". I finally found a Drive-In movie that was playing "The Omen" right up our alley. It figured to me that anniversary's of any type should be celebrated between us with a horror film, its how we started and hopefully how we'll continue. Although I must admit that I think that the horror film last night was much better than the one with which we began, but this might be a good sign of our improvement. So we pulled in and the smile on I.'s face made it completely worth it. It made it all worth it. We parked the car and went to get snacks (which were surprisingly good), rolled the windows down and got comfy.

The movie wasn't the best part though. The best part of all of it was sitting in a car, being comfortable because I could stretch out, put my legs anywhere I wanted to put them, and do as I pleased. I could talk as loud as I wanted, smoke 'em if you got 'em (which we didn't... serious lack of good judgement on my part), and just generally cause mayhem, as long as it was inside my own car. If you look up drive-in movies on google you can find a whole list of things that are good etiquette for when at a drive-in movie theatre. It's awesome. If you have one close to you, you should go, take your kids (trust me, if they are at all rambunctious, they will be more appriciated at a drive-in then a regular theatre), and see for yourself what this American tradition is worth. I have only ever seen one other place in the entire world that promotes any type of outdoor movie theatre and that was in Corsica where they put the movie on a wall and you paid an arm and a leg to go. Yet here we pay an average of 7 dollars for two movies, that's right a double feature. So for less than the cost of a regular movie theatre you can enjoy two movies and the comfort of being in your own space, with better refreshments than a regular move theatre.

Support your local drive-in so that my kids may one day see them too. Oh and p.s. turn your headlights off when you come in and don't step on the break pedal while parked (we know what you're doing, you don't need to advertise it and it's a bit distracting thank you).