Tim has been planning to take James to see Cars 2 as his first movie in the theater since last summer. James' random and unfounded fear of movie theaters was going to throw a major wrench in this plan until I came up with the genius idea of taking him to the drive-in! Our friends the Haleys wanted in on this amazing plan as well, so we planned a whole night of festivites for the boys for Saturday night. As with most plans involving a 2 year old, a 3 year old, a 4 year old, an 8 month old and a newborn; the dream is often much better than the reality. We packed our cars full of pizza, snacks, treats and activities and got to the drive-in in Ft. Collins right when the box office opened t 6:45pm. It was a gorgeous night and we had a blast tailgaiting and pre-gaming as we waited for the movie to start.
The boys were so excited for the movie to start!! What we did not anticipate was how late the movie would actually begin. By the time the previews were done and Cars 2 actually started, it was after 9:30pm! Thank goodness James took a much needed 3 hour nap that afternoon.
All the toy cars lined up to watch the movie.
Daddys and boys killing time before the movie.
Even more ready for the movie to start-all changed into pajamas with popcorn!
Having 3 overly tired, excited and talkative boys in the same car trying to watch a movie didn't really go as planned (who would have thought?!). Once the boys were separated and situated on laps, things went much smoother. We had a very exhausted crew by the end of the movie! James actually did great for staying up so late and was definitely excited about his first movie going experience. He talked about the "drive-out" and Cars 2 all day today, so I think we can consider it a success even though all the adults had their doubts at various points during the movie :-) Although there are no photos of Cormac or Emerson from the drive-in, they were both dream babies. They nursed and/or slept the whole time and neither one of them made a peep the entire loooong night. I couldn't completely leave them out though, so here they are on their baby date earlier in the week when all of the big kids were at summer camp.
As you can see, Emmy is already a big fan of her first boyfriend, Macky.
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You need to add the note "shown actual size" next to Mac if you're going to show him next to that cute little girl. It looks like a bad photoshop.
So....how was the movie???
My Cars @ review: I thought it was the most confusing and hard to follow plot of any movie I have seen in recent memory (kid's movie or otherwise). Perhaps this is just me and speaks to the fact that I have the same taste in programming as a 13 year old. But seriously, it was confusing. There were new characters that were good, but we missed some of the old characters that were hardly in the new one. James liked that Tow Mater was one of the main characters in this one and liked the racing scenes. It was OK, but not the best kid's movie I have ever seen. But the experience of the drive-in was worth it :-)
It's been getting bad reviews for the overly complicated plot, sO it's not just you!
I cannot believe the children were able to stand it starting so late!!!
Jamsey is a different kid with his haircut- I hardly recognize him.
It really was fun!! I'd do it again, if there was more tea!!
When does smurfs come out?
Totally just used this on my blog, see you were right, you should just update my blog, and now you have! :)
I love that it is the "drive out." Too cute and what fun!
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