No Date Night For You!

Mom and Dad came up last weekend to spend some time with us and have some hangout time with Sev while J and I continued our never-ending unpacking. My mom recommended that J and I take a date night Saturday night if we weren't too tired, since date nights are few and far between these days.

We had a productive Saturday and decided to take everyone out for dinner at one of my parents' favorite restaurants. Sev had a blast having dinner with all four of us, and by the time we got back he was tired out and ready for bed. We set my dad up with Super Troopers on Netflix and I introduced my mom to the wonders of Pinterest, once the little dude was asleep. J took the dogs for a long walk and by the time he was back we only had 20 minutes to get to the movie we were planning to see.

We decided to take the back way as we talked about our house and yard plans, and how cute Sev is at restaurants when he wants to do everything the adults do. We were so carried away in conversation that we neglected to take a rather important right turn. It was quite a bit later when I realized we'd gone too far down the wrong road. With less than 10 minutes until movie time, I opened my map app and found a quick save. We took the next right, which looked like it would drop us right in the parking lot of the theater. It would have, had it not been for the giant locked gate which is likely meant to keep people from using the street as a shortcut to the cinema (as we had just tried to do). Booo.

We made a quick re-route up the road a bit. We got out to the post road with 2 minutes till showtime. Police cars were everywhere. We wondered what was going on, since it didn't appear to be much of anything important. Impressed with our emergency navigation skills, we pulled into the parking lot as we noticed a surprising lack of cars for a Saturday night. A kid standing in front of the theater stepped forward as we slowly rolled by the building.  He said there was a power outage and the theater was closed for the night, though there seemed to be plenty of lights on inside the building. Either way, we were not going to see our movie. It seemed that the fates were pitted against our plan.

We refused to be completely beaten. We considered heading down to old Providence haunts, or maybe checking out the local brewhouse. Then, realizing our new proximity to things that we were once farther away from, we hopped on 295 and sped off (at a reasonable rate of speed) to Lincoln. Our original movie plan was traded in for the "what's playing soon" plan. But Mad Max was just a few minutes from starting and the theater was not crazy full, so we took it.
The movie was fun and we wound up having a pretty sweet date night after all.

I think the night sums up our partnership rather nicely. When curveballs come our way, we team up and pummel them into submission. We're a pretty good team, me and my sweet hubs.