Sunday night Daniel and I decided to go to the movies and even better a drive in! There are actually a few near us in Norwalk and by near I mean an hour and half drive, not like Daniel had work in the morning ...
We headed off to the Warwick Drive In in Warwick, NY. Warwick is in the mountains so it was actually a really pretty drive through these old small towns and up curvy mountain roads, makes my West Virginia girl heart happy. Warwick was very cute with a winery and pick your own strawberry farms and though Daniel's poor math got us there on the early side we were not there early enough to take advantage of the town's cuteness.
We were there early enough to get some ice cream before hand at what was the most happening creamery I have ever seen. My only guess is that the entire town was there and standing inline ahead of us. In addition to being filled in on the local gossip, apparently Gerber is really un happy with his ex girlfriend, we enjoyed an amazing view of the mountains with our ice cream.
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| That should be a postcard |
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| Yum! |
They had some great names for their specialty flavors so we enjoyed Great White Way and Bellvale Blog. Definitely saved two dollars by getting one cup with two scoops instead of two one scoop cups. That was the first time I have gamed ice cream.
A bit closer to dusk we rolled into the Warwick Drive In.
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| Official looking tickets right |
Surprisingly they had three screens all showing double features of first run movies. Tickets were per person but only $8 and that covered both movies. I swear I paid more than that last time I went to a regular movie.
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| I feel so Grease |
I am a sucker for superhero movies and a hot body so I talked Daniel into the Green Lantern and The Hangover Part 2.
It was so much fun just to be at a drive in theatre. The only other time I have been to a drive in was when my parents took my sister and I to see Snow White when I was like 10. Daniel had never been to one before so he was pretty excited. We decided to fully indulge in the drive in atmosphere by having dinner out of the snake bar.
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| Our haul |
So hot dogs and popcorn for dinner! Was the snack bar over priced... sure ... but certainly no worse than a regular movie.
Oh and my favorite movie candy.
Snow Caps! Though I hardly ever finish the box and I never want them outside of a movie, I love them at the movies.
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| Starting to get dark |
Oh awesome thing: I got to talk durning the movie and the only person it bugged was Daniel! Whoa!
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| I bumped the levels way up to even get this to show up |
I tried to take a picture but it didn't work out so well. Trust me this is the good part.
I know other people are knocking the Green Lantern but I thought for a superhero movie that had to educate most of the audience to the set up it was pretty good. It could have used one more good fight scene, but I am looking forward to the sequel that you know is coming. Sadly we had to leave half way through Hangover Deja Vu. We were throughly enjoying the movie but it was 1 am and Daniel had work at 8:30 in the morning and we still had to drive home. I am wondering if the movie theatre here will cut me a deal since I only want to see the last 45 minutes.
Huge fans of the drive in we are already planning on going back but next time probably on a Friday so we can stay all the way through the second movie.
Summary
Cost:
Ice cream $4.50
Movie Snacks $20
(Hot dogs, Popcorn, soda, candy)
Movie $16
Total $40.50
Time: 7.5 hours
Average : $5.40 /hr entertainment
I normally do all my calculations for only my half but since we split so much food I did both.
Perks:
Just Fun. Dinner and a movie for $40 not too bad and this was way cooler than going to the theatre down the street from us.
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