Date Night!

I am so excited! Tonight we are doing dinner and a movie, all Jim's idea. This is because it's March Madness, and he is watching a ton of college basketball these days, just about every night. And it's going to be this way for the next several weeks. Tonight, he advised would be a good opportunity (no basketball to watch), if I was interested, to go out. So dinner and a movie it is.

The neat thing is that Jim has never been to the Nugget theater, our one little movie theater on Main Street (established 1934). I've only seen one movie there, and it's really cool, retro, old-fashioned. Nothing like the metro-plex type experience we're all used to.

The other thing that makes this special is that we just don't go out to eat much. We go to friends' houses a lot for dinner parties, but we don't go to restaurants much at all. When we do it really stands out and is a lot of fun. We also hardly ever see movies in theaters, so that too seems like a special treat.

Back when we were dating 10-12 years ago, the kids were living with Jim, and we did many of our activities and outings with them. The 4 days a month with no kids, even after we got married, were catch up days for household chores, sleep, and dates!

Date night conjures up wonderful memories for me, and I think always will.