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| movie from the comforts of a car! |
It was a pretty good weekend. On Friday, I did a lot of trimming shrubs and
yard work. My daughter and I had plans
to go see the new movie, “The Martian.”
When I realized it was on a drive-in theater in Beaufort, we decided for
an evening road trip. I haven’t been to
a drive-in since high school and she’d never been one. It was kind of neat even though they no
longer have speakers at each car (now they tell you which station to listen in
on your radio). The photo was taken from
the front seat of the car, but you can’t really tell it was from the car (I was
hoping to get the steering wheel in the scene but it was too dark). The movie was pretty good and my daughter
thought she preferred the drive-in to regular movies (it was better staying
inside the car than to go outside due to the number of bugs outside in the wet
ground).
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| Close haul |
I was supposed to be on the committee boat on Saturday for
sailing, but there was rain and some lightning and no wind, so we
cancelled. I did go out on the water with some folks
on Sunday afternoon. Instead of racing, we practiced a number of procedures and generally
enjoyed being on the water for a few hours.
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| Another boat running with a spinnaker |
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| T. R. presents me with the door prize |
Sunday evening, I attended “An Evening with TR” sponsored by
the Friends of the Savanah Wildlife Refugees.
There are seven refugees in our area and this was a fundraiser.
Joe Wiegand played T.R. and put on a
wonderful show. If he is in your area, I would recommend you seeing him! In addition to top notch
entertainment, I made out nicely as my $20 entry to the lecture resulted in
winning one of the door prizes, a $40 book:
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore
Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris
Kearns Goodwin.
All sounds like lots of fun.
ReplyDeleteIt was a good weekend!
DeleteHe does resemble T.R. and I imagine he does put on a good show. Congratulations on that win.
ReplyDeleteHe puts on a great show and travels the country--if you get a chance to see him, I'd jump on it.
DeleteI would love going to a drive thru to watch a movie as it would bring back so many memories. I hope you enjoyed the movie and like the book you won!
ReplyDeleteThe movie was good and being at the drive-in brought back a lot of memories.
DeleteDid you know that in Dearborn there is what is now a multi screen drive-in still up and running and doing well? People of today who did not grow up until the 80's never know what they missed.
ReplyDeleteTR-yeah I could sit through a lecture based on his work.
This drive-in had two theaters--one showing more of a kid-friendly movie and the other showing the Maritian
DeleteDrive-in movie season always seems so short. There is a fine line between comfortable and either being too cold, too hot or buggy. I just hate having to run my car while watching a movie. But drive-in movie season is almost upon us now if only we had one near here.
ReplyDeleteThankfully we didn't have to run the car and the bugs were bad outside, so we stayed inside.
DeleteI've never been to a drive-in movie. I don't think they have them where I am. My back hurts after sitting in a car for a long time, but I would totally try it once for the experience and fun. :)
ReplyDeleteThere is one south of Savannah, in Jessup, but that's further away than this one in SE South Carolina. You can sit outside and some people were doing that and using candles and mosquito coils to keep the bugs at bay.
DeleteI've never been to a drive-in movie. I don't think they have them where I am. My back hurts after sitting in a car for a long time, but I would totally try it once for the experience and fun. :)
ReplyDeleteWhen i was a kid in the 50's, my brother in law would put us in the back of his 51 studebaker pickup with a mattress and back it into the slot at the drive in. We were usually asleep by the end of the flick.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid (younger than 10 cause my younger brother wasn't with us), my parents would take us to a double flick. The first was always a kid movie and the second an adult movie and we kids (in our pjs) would sleep in the backseat
DeleteRefugees ?. As in from Syria ?.
ReplyDeleteI find it utterly amazing just how of the community you are there. It's as if you were never in the cold north up to little more than a year ago.
I need to go back and drop an "e"! I have always been involved where ever I've lived.
DeleteHe certainly was perfect for the part of TR! What a great weekend you had, and I was a bit closer to your neck of the woods. I just returned from Huntsville, Alabama, but we spent Saturday night in wild music city row, Nashville, TN it was in a word, wonderful, weekend for me as well!
ReplyDeleteGlad you had fun but amazed you didn't schedule that trip for Feb :)
DeleteI believe there are less than 400 Drive-In's left in the United States. Many are family-owned and they cannot spare the expensive retrofit from film to digital projectors, which is a shame.
ReplyDeleteWow, there are that many? I know there are a couple in MI and once we were in WV and there was a drive in and we thought about going just for fun, but there was nothing on we wanted to see.
DeleteThere are still a few drive ins here, though about an hour away. Haven't been since I was a little kid, but remember loving it.
ReplyDeleteThis one was 1 1/2 hours away! You should go as it'll bring back memories
DeleteA Drive-In AND a door prize? I haven't been to or won either of those in ages. I enjoyed your sailing pictures as always.
ReplyDeleteA Drive-In AND a door prize? I haven't been to or won either of those in ages. I enjoyed your sailing pictures as always.
ReplyDeleteFor all that I go to the cinema a lot, I've never been to a drive in movie....
ReplyDelete(It would be tricky, anyway as we don't have a car....)
What nice you had a pretty good time with your daugther.
ReplyDeleteAnd congrats cause you win !
Wow, I haven't been to a drive in since I was a kid. The last one in this city closed down years ago.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! We've had lots of mosquitos here recently but now with the cooler whether hopefully they will disappear. Nice pictures!
ReplyDeleteWonderful! I'd love to see a drive-in movie. I hope you have another great weekend. :)
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