the hobbitts go out on the town

Right now (Wednesday night) hobbitt and I are sitting in camp chairs in our dining room. If anyone is walking by on the main drag, they are seeing us bright and clear in an otherwise empty room. We have just returned from seeing a movie. In a movie theatre. There are readers out there who will be shocked, shocked at this information. I'm not sure what year we last went to the movies. Certainly not since moving back to NJ, and yet here we are, our second night in Port Townsend, and we went to see a movie. And we saw Sahara, in the uptown neighborhood, in a musty old theatre called, go figure, The Uptown Theatre. There were perhaps seven other people along with us.

Well. Sahara. It stars, of course, Matthew McConau-hubba-hubba. Steve Zahn is another of our favorite actors, having endeared himself to us in That Thing You Do. This movie is the Indiana Jones of the new millennium. I only had to close my eyes at one violent scene, and otherwise was able to control myself with a steady mantra of "It's just a movie. It's just a movie." All in all, quite a bit of fun, with appealing, if broadly drawn, main characters.

But enough about our first date in Washington. Back in Illinois, we'd often have two and even sometimes three performances on a single weekend, all at the good old MacAninch at COD. Still, a movie was pretty rare, but go figure, with all that dance, and theatre, and concerts, and comedy.

But that all ended three years ago. This morning, on the phone with my sister, I mentioned we'd attended a movie. There was silence at the other end of the line. Finally, she gasped, "Get out of town. You two went OUT?!?!?"

I guess we're back in the saddle.