We took Jordan to his very first movie today: The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything from the Veggie Tales. It was pretty good.
We went to the AMC theater at The Parks at Arlington for the 10 a.m. showing. (We figured if Jordan acted like a 2-year-old, we'd be at the early show with all the other kids. Boy were we right!). When we arrived at The Parks mall, Dondi made her way to the Chick-fil-A in the food court (free tip: AMC at The Parks does allow you to bring in drinks you buy from food court vendors) for some iced tea for the two of us and lemonade for Jordan. We then walked around the empty mall for a few minutes, then headed into the movie theater.
Jordan was overwhelmed by the colors of the place, the plasma-screen concession stand signs and all the noise of the theater, but he was having fun. We had told him we were there to see Bob and Larry (his name for Veggie Tales, named after the tomato and cucumber, for those who haven't been blessed with the Veggie Tales craze). Every time a preview started, Jordan would go, "Bob and Larry?" When the opening credits started, Jordan screamed out to a theater with at least 150 people, "BOB AND LARRY!" He was pretty thrilled.
Jordan sat completely still for the first half hour or so. Of course, we did bribe him with a hot dog and some popcorn (I'm glad they do home equity loans at the concession stands now, that makes it so much easier to pay for a hot dog and popcorn). He started getting tired and wanted to move a lot. Fortunately, there was some room on our row for him to walk; then he wanted to walk up and down the stairs of the theater. Finally, he was ready to go, so we missed the last half hour of the movie, although I'm pretty sure there was a happy ending.
We'll Netflix it when it comes out on DVD to see how it ends. :)
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