Saturday night Eleanor stayed at home with Josh’s family while Josh and I went out on our first date in a few months. We did our favorite new suburban parent style date night: dinner at a decent enough restaurant, drunken walk to nearby movie theater, and sobering up while watching a movie.

It really is quickly becoming our favorite thing to do. While the food is only decent, the wine is pretty good. We split a bottle, which is more than enough for us both to be drunk. We love it! We just laugh a bunch, making stupid jokes, and speculating about the other people in the restaurant.

When we finish dinner we drunkenly walk down the street, which, even though it is just an outdoor portion of the shopping mall, is still kinda pretty lined with these lit-up trees and street lamps. At the end of the street is the movie theater, where we get a tub of soda, candy, and popcorn. We get to fill up with junk while sobering up enough to drive home by the time our movie ends.

This time we saw Where the Wild Things Are. We highly recommend it. I think I cried through the entire movie starting about 30 seconds in. It was just beautiful and so so sad. And it had a fantastic soundtrack. It really stayed true to the heart of the book, which I imagine was difficult to do because the book is such a short and simple story.

I know that this isn’t the most exciting date night we’ve had in our six years together, but it actually was so much fun. I’m curious what you all do on your date nights, especially you parents. Anything as fun as drinking and then filling up on candy and popcorn until you feel a little sick?