Cheap date

I am a cheap date, by the way. I don't drink, so there's that. Also, I'm always happy to split things. Except dessert. But that's not the point of this post.

Tad and I had a really nice cheap date on Friday night.  Our neighbor Julia babysat for our kids. She came over at 8, after they were already tucked into bed for the night.  We didn't have to pay, since we swap babysitting hours with Julia and her husband.  We went out to a movie!! It was the first theater movie we'd seen since...well jeez, I don't remember!  I think it was at the Majestic Theater in Brookfield... and it was the Fantastic Mr. Fox. I just googled it and it was out in November of 2009, so yes, that's the last movie we saw in the theater. Almost a full year ago.

Did we have to pay big money for the movie?  NO!  Tad was the third caller on 91.7 WMSE, Milwaukee Film Festival contest and he won us free tickets! 

We went to see "Date Night", a series of romantic shorts at the Ridge in New Berlin.  We talked on the ride and held hands.  We got to the movie theater an hour and a half before the film started, but we were so glad to be out of the house, we didn't care. We walked laps around the movie theater and enjoyed each other's company. We even splurged on a kiddie combo: A small popcorn, a small soda and pixie stix for $6.50.

A whole date night for six dollars, fifty sense and enough gas to get us to New Berlin and back.

Lovely.