Mexican food, Margaritas, and a Movie

Prior to coming to Texas, Cris and I had never gone out to the movies together.  In fact, we had hardly finished a movie together.  With both of us working full time, and living 30 minutes apart, we never started until late, and were always too tired to finish.  Without fail, we’d fall asleep every time.  One Red Box movie we were hell bent on watching – we ended up keeping for 2 weeks.  We tried probably 4 times, and never made it past a ½ hour.  The first movie we saw together, was True Grit, sitting in our Seguin room.  We congratulated ourselves on this triumph. 

And as for going out to the movies, back home, it’s way too expensive.  After 10 bucks a pop, and wanting munchies and drinks, you’ve emptied your wallet.  Here, in good ol’ Texas, we’ve hit a gold mine.  One Sunday a few months ago, Cris and I went out for a date in New Braunfels – the next town over.  After Mexican food and margaritas, we walked over to the theater to catch a movie.  We decided on Hard Ball, and were preparing to pay our pockets worth.  When the kid said, “Ten bucks.”  Cris said, “Two tickets man.”  The kid said, “Yeah, 10 bucks.”  What!?  Cris, disbelieving, asked “It’s 5 bucks a ticket?  For a night show?  Is this some kind of special Sunday price?”  Nope.  It’s always that price. And Matinees - they are only $3.50!!  Every beautiful day of the week.  Cris and I walked in, laughing and excited, like we had just cheated the theater Gods.   When we left, we were still stoked on the high of cheap movies, and vowed to come back every week and see every movie that comes out. 

We haven’t been quite that zealous.  But we have seen twice  since then.  Last week we ate some more Mexican, drank some more margaritas, and went for a cheap matinee of The Muppets.  Last night, Cris and I were in New Braunfels again, running errands, and decided to go to a movie.  We had dinner first at an awesome Mexican chain, Los Cucos.  There was great live music – a girl that I’m pretty much sure was just singing for me.  Every song I would exclaim to Cris that it was my favorite and I loved her.  Half way through dinner, I said, “Sorry.  I’m not even paying attention to you.”  Cris said, “No.  It’s like your on a date with her.” Mexican food, margaritas, and a movie.  It seems to be our first tradition here.  

Here is our delicious food.

Here's the girl that was serenading me

So – for the movie. . . I wasn’t in a serious J. Edgar mood, and I wasn’t sure if I was ready for Jonah Hill, so Cris being the good boyfriend that he is, offered up a chick flick, “Why don’t we see New Years Eve?  You know you want to see that.”  It’s true.  Going into it, I knew it was going to be stupid.  I even told Cris that.  But there is something about those movies with all those stars that just has me curious.  There were so many stars, that even stupid 2 second roles were filled with a name– Alyssa Milano literally had a 1 sentence, 5 second role.  It was bad writing, bad plot, and utterly predictable.  Cris was mostly mad that so many award winning actors conceded to this movie,. .  When we left, he said, “You owe me 10 dollars, and 2 hours of my life."  He’s right, I do.  But. ..  at least it’s only 10 dollars!