Monday, May 24, 2010

Goin' to the drive-in

I think we are the craziest parents alive. There. I said it.
When we were packing up to come home from our latest "adventure"...James said it best. He says to me: "Well, that was an experience."  (You see that look on his face?)

On Friday afternoon, I was perusing thru Facebook....and I noticed someone's comment that they were taking their kids to the drive in. And I thought how FUN that would be (I'm obviously insane). So I looked up the info...the cost, where it was at, etc, etc...and mentioned what I had found to James, thinking he'd just laugh at me. But nope. He got home from work and we gathered all our crap stuff. And drove the 45ish minutes down to Ennis, Tx to the Galaxy Drive In for a double feature of Shrek Forever After and Iron Man 2.
We got there in plenty of time...picked out a good spot, sprayed on the bug spray, set up the blankets in the back of the car and camping chairs outside of the car....we even got dinner from the snack bar (twice, duh...because there were TWO movies). The girls actually sat thru BOTH movies (I've trained them well)...however, the Boy gave us some difficulties...but it wasn't anything out of the ordinary, he gives us difficulties every night. It was a fun time, and the girls had a blast....but, yeah....we won't be doing that again anytime soon. The 2nd movie ended at about 1am and we made it home by 2. Pure craziness.

Crazy, I tell ya.

9 comments:

Jennifer said...

That looks like a blast until I got to the bug spray and getting home at 2 am.. Hmm. nevermind ;) jk!

Shannon said...

heck, I don't think I could have stayed up that late! That is wild! Sounds fun though, except for the bugs, ick on bugs.

Lois Brown said...

I loved taking our girls to drive-ins...but I doubht I did it with baby tha small...but too fun for you! good memories!

Bell Family Blog said...

Lol LOVE James shirt! hahaha Aw man I have never been to a drive in movie before and I've always wanted to go. So was Shrek any good?

Krista said...

So was it crazy just because it was late??? I was planning on taking my girls to the drive in to see Shrek because of little man. I figured I could just stick him on the boob if he started crying and not have to show everyone:) But ours is only like 10 min away, not 45. Did the girls stay in the car? That's what I'm worried about:)

Simply Sarah *K* said...

It was crazy because it was late and because Jax started to cry at his usual time, but James took him for a walk and he calmed down. Bella stayed in the car the whole time, or moved from car to chair...Aube danced around a little by the car, Miss I-Need-Attention. But they didn't like take off.

Shrek was actually pretty good...for Shrek, lol. I'm glad this is the last one...it's just overdone, ya know?

And yeah....bugs. Tho I was surprised...they werent all in the car like i expected!

Krista said...

Cool! I totally want to try it out. I might have to go this weekend:) I need a fun night out.
Oh, and I had to go back and look at James' shirt and I think it's awesome too:)

Jenni said...

I got excited about this until I got to the bugs and 1 am part.

Zeke said...

I love the shirt, James. I'm glad you guys had so much fun. Next time, take the kids there, send them to the snack bar and drive off. The kids will think it's funny and everyone will get a laugh out of it when you reunite as adults.