South Bay Drive In Movies with my Love

My lovely hus­band is con­stantly com­ing up with ways to make me feel spe­cial. He qui­etly observes me, notices what I like and what I am about. He pays atten­tion to small details and takes notice of what I enjoy. Then he sur­prises me with activ­i­ties he knows I will love.

His most recent idea was drive-in movies. James knows I am a hope­less film lover. I love loos­ing myself in fic­tion; wher­ever the movie is intended to take the audi­ence, I am there. What­ever the char­ac­ters are going through, I go through, I cry, I laugh, I get scared, I get excited.  I love read­ing fic­tion and I read when­ever I get a chance (you can always find a book in my purse), but movies, movies I could watch non-stop. Movies move me!  (James says I am every movie director’s dream).

Drive-in movies have always seemed to me like a very Amer­i­can thing to do. Until I moved to Cal­i­for­nia, I only saw it .… in movies! I remem­ber watch­ing movies out­side under a night sky, with my cousins in sum­mer, in an amphithe­atre, but a drive in… I had never expe­ri­enced that before.

I enjoy list­ing things I have done for the first time with my hus­band. This drive-in movie expe­ri­ence is one of them! So every other Mon­day, we take pop-corn (looove pop-corn with the movies), pack din­ner and snacks and head to the South Bay Drive In. Drive-In feels more inti­mate than being in a movie the­atre – we are in our car, my feet in white socks (if it’s chilly) propped against the dash board, my lovely hus­band next to me, munch­ing on food, enjoy­ing two movies back-to-back (for $7 per per­son, not bad!).

Some­times cir­cum­stances don’t allow us, but we do our best to go reg­u­larly, every other Mon­day. It’s become a rit­ual, our lit­tle tra­di­tion I look for­ward to.  We get home from work, pre­pare the drinks/food/snacks and leave our cat to his nap.  I am sure it’s not going to be this easy once there are three of us (I mean three, plus the cat). So, we enjoy this time as much as we can.  James says he likes the movies too (most of the time!). We are care­ful in select­ing gen­res we both enjoy.

What can I say – I am grate­ful. Thank you baby for every­thing you do for me!

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