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Tuesday – Sweet Pea Goes To the Movies
Mar. 9th, 2010 01:39 pm.
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We decided to see how 5 year old Sweet Pea would do at a real movie theater this weekend. He has long been intrigued by the idea, but we’ve been reluctant to pay the price of a ticket only to have to leave half way through because someone couldn’t sit still or be quiet. When he was 4 I considered taking him to see Wall-E and later Up!, but didn’t quite trust his maturity level when those films were in theaters so I didn’t. He’d seen the advertisements for Alice in Wonderland and I’d casually mentioned that maybe we could go see it, so after that he because very insistent that this was something he really wanted to do.
They say you should never gamble more than you are willing to lose, so I had to consider the cost of the movie tickets. There are 2 cinemas close to me; a shiny new one with a zillion screens and IMAX and 3D features, and an old dingy one with 6 screens, old carpet, shabby seats and video games in the lobby that date back to the 1980s and still only cost a quarter (sweet!). The new theater costs $9.50 a ticket and more if you go to an IMAX or a 3D film. The old theater costs $4.25 a ticket and is never crowded, meaning if things went wrong we could leave and only annoy a handful of people. We went to the older theater. I figured I was willing to gamble $13.50, but not $28.50.
( Dinner and a Movie )
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We decided to see how 5 year old Sweet Pea would do at a real movie theater this weekend. He has long been intrigued by the idea, but we’ve been reluctant to pay the price of a ticket only to have to leave half way through because someone couldn’t sit still or be quiet. When he was 4 I considered taking him to see Wall-E and later Up!, but didn’t quite trust his maturity level when those films were in theaters so I didn’t. He’d seen the advertisements for Alice in Wonderland and I’d casually mentioned that maybe we could go see it, so after that he because very insistent that this was something he really wanted to do.
They say you should never gamble more than you are willing to lose, so I had to consider the cost of the movie tickets. There are 2 cinemas close to me; a shiny new one with a zillion screens and IMAX and 3D features, and an old dingy one with 6 screens, old carpet, shabby seats and video games in the lobby that date back to the 1980s and still only cost a quarter (sweet!). The new theater costs $9.50 a ticket and more if you go to an IMAX or a 3D film. The old theater costs $4.25 a ticket and is never crowded, meaning if things went wrong we could leave and only annoy a handful of people. We went to the older theater. I figured I was willing to gamble $13.50, but not $28.50.
( Dinner and a Movie )
