so this post is not about saskaspooning. is that okay? it is, however, about limited choices...and making the best with what you've got. (please note photo is from when i visited the week before hence the reference to the fast and the furious on the sign...)
so patrick's been in unity now for awhile. he's trapped there for work and so we have not been able to saskaspoon. so i went there for the weekend and entertained myself while he worked. this is pretty much how regular couples spend their time but for us this was unusual--we mostly see one another when we are both off work, but here we were, with him working and me at the hotel, writing things and reading a novel and taking my bike out for rides, and then he comes home from work and we spend the evening together. very strange for us but i think sort of like life for the majority of you who live in the same city as your partner.
anyway. we decided we needed something to do on saturday night, and we had two choices, it being unity, a small town in the north west of the province. it has one movie theatre with one screen (attached to a bowling alley, the family's apartment is off the back and the whole family runs it all, very sweet, very much a coming-of-age book in waiting, don't you think?) and this weekend all that was playing was hannah montana: the movie.
it was either see hannah montana or go to the Unity School of Dance recital. we were actually pretty torn -- neither one of us particularly wanted to see miley cyrus' (and her creepy dad's) movie, but we did want to see inside the small town theatre. i think the dance recital might have won out if the idea of seeing inside the movie-theatre-cum-bowling-alley didnt seem so romantic and small townish.
so we went to the movies. the kid at the ticket booth looked shocked to see us, and i told patrick later we should have told him our daughter had died years ago; "she would have been nine...." just to give him a good story. my mum told me later we should have told the kid we were having an adulterous affair and needed a dark place to "neck".
anyway, we paid the 7$ each and got a jumbo tub of popcorn for 3$, plus a lime slush puppy for a dollar. the theatre was filled with small girls and their reluctant brothers. there were not a lot of parents--i got the feeling a lot of kids got dropped off. patrick and i are neither one of us very tall but we were like two huge gullivers in lilliput, i swear.
we had a fine time. the kids around us laughed and laughed and laughed at all the stupid stuff that i didnt think eight year olds actually laughed at, and the lime slush puppy was delicious (thanks for sharing, patrick). i am a bit sad i missed the dance recital. the girls in the dance school were lucky, though; there were so many of them in the dance recital on friday and saturday nights who wanted to see hannah montanathat the theatre owners were going to show a matinee on sunday, just for them ....
ps hannah montana has a dangerous message, by the way. apparently, even though you may want to end the facade and just be yourself, it is okay and in fact preferred if you hide your true inner soul if it pleases your fans.
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