the drive-in

Friday night we took the kids out for their special surprise....

... a trip to the drive-in movie!

The Cherry Bowl Drive-In is about a 20 minute drive from the resort we stayed at. The kids had never been to a drive-in before and neither had I! We were all pretty excited.

We got there about the time the ticket booth opened, went on in and got set up.

First order of business was to play around with the photo cut-outs near the concession stand...



Then it was off to play some mini-golf.

Here are the kids contemplating their golf ball choices...
I had never seen golf balls in gumball dispensers before!

Here's Alex getting my ball for me...
Then it was on to the first hole...

No clue what the girl was doing here....
... she was hamming it up for the camera.

After mini-golf, we walked over to the gift shop to check it out. On the way back we stopped for a photo...
Next stop was the concession stand for popcorn with real butter, drinks and candy. We folded the second row seats over and the kids sat on the third row, using the second row seats to lay on or as foot rests.

After some vintage advertising reels and a cartoon, it was time for the first feature...
It was a double feature with Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Jeff and I really wanted to stay and watch it again (we had just gone to see it with Alex the previous weekend), however, the kids were tired and wanted to go back to the cottage and go to bed.

The Cherry Bowl was a lot of fun and I'm already looking forward to going again next summer when we go back to Crystal Mountain.