Hitting the road on Father's Day.

Amazing Husband is not biologically a father, but he spent several of my kids....ummm...let's say...more interesting years as their step father.  They have a great Dad who I know they love bunches, but having AH in their lives has been an incredibly positive thing on all levels.  I always say that my kids can never have too many people who love them and that has proven true both in AH and in Denise, their Dad's wife.  My father has passed, AH's father is in far away Houston, so I asked AH how he would like to spend Sunday.  He wanted to see the movie "Moon" and the closest theater that it was playing in was Evanston.  What a hardship.

How many ways do I love Evanston?  Many, and for good reason.  Evanston is a northern suburb of Chicago that is about a 2 hour drive from our house, depending on traffic.  Historic, near the lake, home Northwestern University, diverse, great shopping.....an incredibly beautiful place.  We go there pretty regularly so that I can do some shopping in Vogue Fabrics.  Vogue Fabrics is this huge, discount fabric store that has everything you could ever want in the way of fabric.....you just have to be willing to look for it.  There are 5 rooms and most things are on rolls as apposed to bolts. Since we were heading that way we decided to make a quick stop there. In the remnant room I found some great batiks and a few light cottons to make some cuite-patootie summer things for Miss CJ next summer.  In the home dec room I grabbed a few cute patterns of oilcloth to make bibs out of. (remember you can click pics to see larger)  The street that Vogue is located on was having a festival so we had to park several blocks away and walk, which was actually sort of fun and gave us a chance to have a close up look at some of the historic homes. 

The movie was on Maple in the Century theater.  I did a quick look for a link that might have some info about the theater, but didn't have any luck.  You park across the street in a nice parking garage and then when you enter the theater you go up an escalator to get to the theater area.  On the right side there is an actual bar with sofas and eating areas where you can hang out before or after your film. There is a large piano and a pool table, too.  I guess they have live music on Friday's and Saturdays.  Nifty.  Now we know of another theater we can go to see the movies that NEVER come to Rockford.

*Moon* was a quirky little one-man movie.  It was good, and I'm glad we went, but it won't be for everyone. 

It is a day late, but happy Father's Day to all of you Dads.  We appreciate you!

Comments

[PainterWoman]

Another "virtual" friend said that Moon "set him back" a few days. He's going through a divorce but has PhD's and teaches at a TOP tier school. What did you like or not like about this?

[Tom (AH)]

Yes... if you are going through a difficult time associated with loss, I can see that this would be one tough movie to watch. I remember watching "What dreams may come" at a similar time, may have been a good movie, but really hard to watch then.