Drive-in

We fulfilled a life goal this weekend. When Max and I were teenagers just starting to date we put together a date ideas list. I still have this list somewhere. One thing I remember that we wrote down on the list was go to the drive-in movies. Max had gone as a kid and I had never gone. There is a drive-in about 40 minutes away from our house (closer from the homes we grew up in) There are only 4 drive-ins left in Oregon. When we were driving home from the beach a couple weeks ago we passed the drive-in and decided that we just needed to go, even if we brought the kids.

We found out that they were playing How to Train your Dragon 2 and we knew that could be one that Charlie would actually sit and watch so we made plans to go. At this drive in they also do double features so the second movie was American Graffiti. We thought it might be fun to get the kids to sleep and stay and watch the second movie, it would be especially neat to watch an old movie at the drive-in.  Also, we were pretty excited to put down the back seats in our car and bring lots of blankets and pillows to cuddle up as a family while watching the movie.

Anyway, we left our house right at Charlie's bedtime, call us crazy, but we were excited! We arrived, found a parking spot and set up our car. Here are the random photos I managed to get.

Just before sundown.

This little goofball ran around a bit before the movie started.

Miles was the first to try out our cozy back seat.

 Charlie could not wait for the movie to start to eat his popcorn. Eating popcorn, after bedtime, while you're partially outside. Life can't get better for this kid!

My happy boys!

 We watched the movie and everything went pretty smoothly, Miles needed to eat and then Max got him to sleep. Max put him in his car seat to sleep through most of the movie. Charlie watched the movie pretty well. I don't feel like I paid too close attention to the movie as I was busying myself with making sure Charlie had what he needed or that he was comfortable or warm...(the worries of a mom) When the movie ended it was about 11:30. Even if they boys were both sleeping there is no way we could stay up and watch another movie so he headed home. We were happy we had this experience. We may just do it again in the future, maybe with just the two of us...or maybe we will just create a drive-in atmosphere in our own yard...that way, it's free and we don't need a babysitter.