Holding Hands at the Movies!

Somewhere on the Internet, I read recently a woman's complaint about going out for dinner and a movie, AGAIN, with her significant other.  She longed for something more interesting to fill their evenings!!

GEE WHIZ!!!!

Gordon and I have been married almost four years, and we had not seen a movie in a movie theater in the entire time!

This abstinence from movies has not been our plan. To the contrary, we have planned countless times on doing the Dinner-and-Movie Thing, or even just the Movie Thing, but some complication has always popped up, usually at the last minute.

Well, last week, after a meeting in the Jackson area, we zipped by the fancy, new-ish theater in Madison, and we were thrilled to learn we were just in time for one of the afternoon showings!  We were as excited as a couple of pre-teens on their first date!

Yes, it is silly, but we even captured our date with the above phone photo of us holding hands.  That plane on the screen is part of one of the previews. 

I was so intent on capturing the momentous occasion on the PDA phone/camera that I totally blotted out all the previews...plus, I was a bit nervous about being caught taking a picture of the big screen!  Do you think I have a future as a fearless, hardened criminal?  *cheeky grin*

So, what did we see?  American Gangster with Russell Crowe and... some other folks!  *wink*  Denzel Washington gave a superb performance, as usual.

Oh, the joy of losing all track of time in front of the big screen!  I can fully understand why Hollywood enjoyed a boon during the Great Depression!

Gordon and I had the best time discussing our different impressions of the film on our drive home! 

It was a total escape, for three to four hours at least, from deadlines, responsibilities and other stresses!

How could one EVER become blase about that?!?

When was the last time you and your hubby did dinner and a movie, or just went to the big screen to see a flick?