Friday night was date night and we got to go see New Moon! It turned out to be a really fun evening. Reed and Cassy came over, and John and Allisha came too and brought some friends with them Keith and Kristi. We met up at 6pm for dinner at Olive Garden (YUM!) and had fun chatting and eating. Our waitress was fun because she asked us right off the bat if we were going to see New Moon. She said that she had gone to the midnight showing the night before and that the movie was awesome, really crowded, but awesome. We finished eating around 7:30pm and went over to the theatre for the movie.
When we got there, we were excited to see that people had already started to be seated and so no lines (we bought our tickets about a week prior). We go into the theatre and it was totally PACKED! There was of course not 8 seats together, but there wasn't even eight seats period. John sat by himself, Allisha and Kristi sat together and Keith sat in front of them. There was four empty seats way up high that someone was saving, and so the rest of us decided that we were just gonna go see about taking them. WOW big mistake. Apparently this lady was saving them for her daughter and friends that were out getting popcorn. Small misunderstanding, it was fine, but not to her. I think if we had pressed the issue we would have been in an all out hair pulling cat fight. So we went back down to the main section and the manager was trying to get everyone to sit down. We thought he would be willing to help us find some seats. WRONG! He started blaming us for showing up too late, (at this point it is still about 15 minutes before the movie is even scheduled to start). He told us that we couldn't sit together that it was just too bad. He said he had a 20 seat buffer, so there should be 20 extra seats. We told him to find us four seats then. Of course he couldn't do it, and then instead of apologizing and trying to make it right. He sat us out in the hallway and told us we had to wait for the 9pm showing, even though there was also an 8:30pm showing. It kinda felt like we were being sent to the principals office (hehe). He finally came back and a few minutes later and told us that we could "try and fit" into the 8:30 showing. We went into the theatre and it was basically empty. We picked the best seats in the house and all sat together (the four of us). We kept waiting for the rest of the crowd to come, but it didn't the theatre was seriously half empty. A whole lot of drama for nothing. I think what happened was that people that were supposed to go to the later showing snuck into the earlier one, and the drama began.
Doesn't really matter though. We got to watch the show and it was really well done. I am super excited because the poster in the lobby said that Eclipse comes out June 30, 2010. Hooray! Date night again, hopefully with less drama :) Glad that everyone could come and go with us. It was so much fun. Luv you guys!
