Abby, Zoë and Enzo

The cinema in Newington is participating in the free family film festival, where every week during the summer, on Tuesdays and Wednesday mornings, they offer two children's film choices (old releases) and you pick one of them - one's g and one is pg - and watch it for free.  You have to get there early enough, as it is first come first serve, so once they fill up that's it.

We all piled in to the big rental and headed over to Newington to meet Reanna at the theater.  All the way over, and for the rest of the day, the girls couldn't get over how cool they thought this vehicle was.  They were sitting in the back, third row of seating, and kept saying it was so neat and that it looked like an airplane.  It was really funny.  We got to the movie theater and said at the box office that we were wanting to see the free movie, Surf's Up, and were pointed in the right direction.  I went to get some seats while the girls lured Papa Norm and Daddy to the concession stand.  Even with never having been to the movies before, these two couldn't miss the food stand.  After getting everyone seated, and then taking the girls out for a potty break before the movie, I noticed a woman grabbing these booster seat type things from a stack beside the door, so I grabbed a couple and went back to our seats.  They were just a hard plastic thing, with Velcro on the bottom, but it did help to get the girls view up over the seats in front of them.  They were sitting on either side of Papa Norm, who was holding the big tub of popcorn.  They were so mesmerized with the screen, even when it was just a little pre-movie cartoon, that when Chris and I held the popcorn for a couple of minutes, neither of them had noticed that we'd taken the bucket and they both reached over to Papa Norm's lap without looking, at the same time, to reach for more popcorn.  Their hands searched for a moment, then they looked and noticed that their beloved popcorn was missing.  It was hilarious.  The girls enjoyed the movie, and only got up once during it, to potty, and then sat and awed and giggled through the rest of it.

After the movie, we went over the Panera for lunch, and since it is such a nice day today, we sat at the tables outside.  Later we're due to go to Auntie's for dinner, so the girls will get plenty of more outside time when they are running around the back yard.