My first ever DRIVE-IN MOVIE!!

Drive-in movies have pretty much been a staple in John's 'book of fond past-time memories', he and his high school friends would drive to the nearest one (about 45 min away) all the time. I heard lots and lots of stories about how much fun they are, and since the closest one shut down since John and I started dating, we have never been. Well come to find out there is a place called "Motor-Vu" in Dallas, Or that still does drive in movies, and totaling about an 1.5 hours on the road to get there, we decided it was time for me to experience a "first" and go see Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince in the great outdoors.

So yesterday John and I had most of the day free from work. He and Mike went hiking in the morning while I established our blog, we worked out together when he got home, went to lunch with Jane, Ron & Jill at Hawaiian Time, I got dropped off then picked back up from a quick meeting at work then John and I hit up Men's Wearhouse to look at suit's for his graduation gift. After all that running around we thought it might be a good idea to go over to El Torito's for a little happy hour fun (grande draft beers and margaritas). Yesterday was shaping up to be a fun day! 7:00 rolled around and John and I were dressed in our best drive-in movie gear- SWEATS! Mike came to pick us up, and we drove to a Salem Popeyes for a quick snack. Kristen met us at the Popeyes because she had traveled down from the north-side to spend the evening with us. I hopped into the car with Kris, and we tried to beat the boy's to a location we had all never been to before "Motor-Vu- Dallas". A few wrong turns and phone calls to Salem-natives got us there all of about 2.5 minutes sooner than the boys (VICTORY!). We all piled into Mike's truck at that point ($18 for a car) and we were on our way... Chelsea (one of John's co-workers) and her boyfriend met us there, and everyone spent a decent amount of time trying to get their dome light (that despite everything we tried to do wouldn't turn off) to turn off. It was still light out when we got there so we had some time to set up the back of the truck with lots and lots of blankets and comfortable things. We made our way over to the snack bar, and after a little "who's-in-line-oh-whoops-we-just-cut in front-of-a-lot-of-people debacle I ordered a non-traditional: pickle & hot-coco... A combo meal they had never seen before. Kris & Mike got the biggest pop-corn on the planet, and we made our way back to the boy's who had put the finishing touches on the finest looking movie theater seating I have ever seen. The rest was history. We got snuggled up and watched our movie (only minorly interrupted by the car next to us and its odd behavior; lights turning off and on, hazard lights occasionally, horn honking, engine turning on and off, baby crying, etc...) It wasn't my favorite HP movie, but it was my favorite that I've seen in a drive in theater. Oh yeah, and incase you were wondering the answer, Chelsea's dome light finally turned off... Thank goodness. :)