Date Night

Last night, Karen and I had what seemed like a real, bonafide American style date. We love going to the movies, but living in the countryside of China, getting to a movie theater has been hard. Recently, however, a giant shopping complex opened up within five minutes of where we live, and with it, a brand new sparkling movie theater. Karen and I have been wanting to go for the past month, but it was only this week that they started showing movies in English. Our English choices for movie night were 2012 or Twilight. Since Karen loved the book, we decided that we would see Twilight, and I would earn some major boyfriend points to be cashed in at some later date. It was interesting, the ticket said had the time of 7:05, and we wondered if they would show any previews of coming attractions: they showed one, a Chinese movie, and at 7:05 on the dot, our movie started.
We had a great time, it was nice to see a movie in a theater in English, I had only seen one movie in the last two years, and in addition, for the equivalent of 10 US dollars, we got to sit in the VIP section, replete with reclining chairs and ample leg room. Not a bad way to spend a night...even if we were among vampires!