Movie night

We've only taken the boy to the movie theater a couple of times in his life. Firstly, because movie theaters are expensive and secondly, because he's 4, and therefore doesn't exactly have the greatest attention span! The other times we took him to the theater went ok, but the first one was in 3d and he never kept the glasses on, and the other one, he fell asleep halfway through. Lessons learned...don't take a toddler to a 3d movie, and definitely don't take a toddler to a movie when they haven't had a nap!
Being 4 now though, we figured he could sit through a movie if it could hold his attention. We decided to give it a try and had heard great things about Wreck-it Ralph. We had also heard great things about a new movie theater in town, how comfortable the seats were, and how reasonably priced it was. Since life has been so crazy lately, we took advantage of a relatively free day and had a family movie night. What a great night it was! The boy was completely into the movie, and hubby and I enjoyed it as well. We loved the references to games that we had either played as kids, or were familiar from our childhood.
I completely agree with a review that I read where someone had mentioned that they wanted to go and hook up their old Atari system and play some nostalgic games! My parents, I believe still have the Atari console that I remember spending hours playing on as a kid. I'm tempted to steal borrow it the next time we go over there for a visit! We'll most likely end up buying the movie when it comes out on DVD. I'm sure it will make a regular rotation on the boy's DVD player as well. All in all, movie night at the theater was a roaring success, and we'll definitely be making more trips in the future as special treats when good movies are playing.