A Medium Popcorn & M&Ms: $13
First movie: Priceless
Marc's buddy from high school was in town this weekend so Saturday I decided to give them some guy time and after gymnastics I took Riley to see "Winnie the Pooh" at the movie theater. I was pretty nervous but I figured of all the movies out there, "Winnie the Pooh" was the best choice since it's geared to a younger crowd and it's only an hour and nine minutes. So we went to a 10:55 show. Riley was SO excited and had been talking about it for days, she even told her gymnastics coach that we were going to go see "Pooh Bear after nastics"! As we were pulling into our parking spot she said "Oh no, we should have brought Piglet!" I said "Oh no, how could we have forgotten Piglet???" (We had talked the past few days about maybe bringing Pooh Bear and Piglet with us to the movie). She said "We bring him next time." Clearly she had high hopes for this little outing!
I explained the whole process to her so she knew what to expect: how we had to get in line, buy our tickets, and then we would go in and go potty (for this pregnant lady, not her!), and then we would get in line and get our popcorn (Riley loves popcorn so I promised her some at the movies since our Target Cafe is under construction and doesn't have popcorn right now) and then we would go give our ticket to the nice man and then go pick out our seats. She was so excited about the process, she was also excited to go through security at the airport so I shouldn't have been surprised, she kept repeating each of the steps to me. We bought our tickets and then got in line for the concessions, of course they had a display of candy right by the counter so of course Riley needed her M&Ms. Or as Riley says "I just love Mns!" We went to the theater and poor Riley doesn't weigh enough to hold the seat down so she ended up sitting on my lap which was fine! They do have boosters so I will have to try that next time, yep, I said next time! She did great the entire movie. We poured some popcorn and M&Ms in the tray we got and we settled in, we got there just as all of the previews were starting. We watched all of the fun previews and there was even a preview for the new Muppets movie coming out in November! We are pumped. Then Pooh Bear started.
It was actually a really cute movie, told like someone was reading the story. It was a good mix of narrative and animation of the characters with Pooh interacting with the narrator and the pages of the book. It was super cute. Riley sat on my lap for most of the movie, double fisting, with popcorn in one hand and M&Ms in another. It was pretty stinking cute. And here's the kicker, my child was probably one of the more well behaved children (and she was by far the youngest) in the theater! My child!!! I was shocked, she got a little antsy the last 10-15 minutes but it was just about 12:00 and that's what time she usually goes down for her nap plus she had gymnastics in the morning so she's usually ready for an early nap after gymnastics so I couldn't really get too upset. She remained quiet though, we talked a lot about not talking and if we had to using our soft voice, she was just antsy and ended up standing in front of me and sitting on the steps of the theater. But since she sat through the previews she sat still for well over an hour which is pretty good for Ri.
All in all the experience was two thumbs up! I'm thinking we'll try the Smurfs in the next couple of weeks but maybe try to hit up a show after her nap and see how having her well rested works out since Smurfs is a little longer of a movie.
