Tuesday, 8 May 2012

Drive-In

Another item was ticked off the American Dream list this evening when Hannah and I went to our first drive-in movie!  We're babysitting Amanda's car while she's in Japan, so what better opportunity?  Ten minutes away is the Solano Drive-In, up in Concord, and tonight they were showing The Avengers.  We motored up there and waited for sundown.

I wasn't sure what to expect.  Are there big queues of cars to go in?  Was it in a field?  Do they clip speakers onto your windows?  As it turned out, it was a very large car park but with clever humps in place so you can park uphill, lie back and get an undisturbed view of the screen.  And the sound comes through your radio!  This modern technology...

There was a snack bar at the back, and a retro feel to whole place.  $7 a ticket is also phenomenally cheap, especially as all their films are double-bills (except that The Avengers was double-billed with The Avengers.  Not too sure why).  We enjoyed a fantastic film in our own private motor cocoon and we didn't even have to pay for parking!

The one downside was that Hannah kept pretending to yawn and then put her arm around my shoulders.  When I challenged her she said she was trying to "make out".  I don't even know what that means, but it certainly has no place at the cinema.


Driving in.


Parking up.


Get your popcorn here!


Front row seats.


It got better as it got darker...