Lines...I hate 'em

So during the summer, the movie theaters have Free Movie Tuesdays and Free Movie Wednesdays. They show two movies and G and a PG. They're both old and movies that we've seen before (at least the G movies), but it gets us out of the heat. We bring popcorn from home and a few bottles of water and meet friends for the morning. Last Tuesday was the first movie of the summer for us. Last summer, we went to the theater in Rancho Santa Margarita. We knew it. We knew that if we were in line by 9:30, we'd get in. Not a long line either. This summer it's different.


You see, the theater in RSM closed for the free movies this summer. So...now everyone that went to that theater is now going to another theater. The lines at the new theater are horrendous. I drove up with Twerp # 2 and #3 to see Surf's Up (a very funny movie by the way). The lines were already wrapped around the building and out by the parking lot. Ugh. I wanted to turn around and go home. Immediately!

What do you do when you've told your kids that you'll take them somewhere and it turns out not like you expect? We did park, and we did get in line, and we did see the movie. They had to open up three theaters to fit us all in...and I think even then people had to miss the movie. It was good, but I think from now on we'll go for a "drive" and look to see how long the lines are. 'Cause there is nothing worse than standing in a line with three wiggly kiddos for a movie we could have rented...nothing.