Russell came home yesterday. Along with his dad and his brother they picked me up from work and took me with them to their aunt's house. This is when I discovered this Russell's family is HUGE. I already knew he had a big family but I never knew how big. I thought I already met a majority of his family until yesterday. And apparently yesterday was just a "small fraction." Even if I start pulling in second cousins and great-great uncles and aunts from my dad's side I couldn't compete. I barely remember any of the names of the people I met, which bugs me because I'm usually good with names because of my super memory. Luckily, I remember their faces better than I remember their names so I was able to recognize people I met last March when he had family in town.
Two of the guys in his family actually pulled him aside and asked me how many drugs he had to give me to get "a pretty girl like that to marry a mug like him." (Thank you boys for that ego boost. xD)
Russell's grandma recognized me from my heels first before she even saw me. Apparently I'm the only one who wears crazy high heels.
After the family gathering, Russell took me out on a little date. We went to this really small theater by his parent's house. I love this theater. I hate that it's the only "local" theater in Vegas and it happens to be in Henderson so I can never go there because it's a half hour drive just to get to that side of town.
It reminds me of a theater I went to when I was in Cedar City with my family. We had an acre of land a little ways out of town and would always go camping up there while my dad was working on building the cabin. Sometimes we would just take the trailer out there though, stay at a trailer camp ground in the town and just spend a weekend or so away from Vegas. I loved those trips. There was one theater there that I remember and I only went to it once. We saw it every time we went there though. It was small, cheap and had "small town" written all over it. It didn't even play movies that were currently out. They played movies that came out months before. At the time, I thought it was weird. "What's the point of a movie theater then?" I thought. But my dad took me and my brother there to see the Lord of the Rings- The Fellowship of the Ring. I loved the movie. My brother liked it and complained a little about how long it was. But that theater has always stuck out in my mind because I've never seen or been to anything like it before then. I always thought movie theaters were in casinos. (Thanks to being raised in Vegas.)
The theater in Henderson is exactly like that one and maybe that's why I love it so much. It reminds me of that trip. It also feels like you took a step out of Vegas and into another town.
Before the movie we went to this pizza place next to the theater called Sunset Pizza. It's new and took over the Villa Pizza that used to be there but apparently shut down. Russell's dad told us to check it out because they have awesome chicken fingers and he knows how much I love chicken fingers.
He wasn't wrong. The chicken fingers were amazing. Next time I'm in Henderson, I'll probably have Russell take me there again.
We saw Footloose. It was amazing! I loved it! So did Russell. I could go into how people who have been writing negative reviews are wrong and then give reasons for why the movie is really amazing but I won't. Go see it though. Just go in with an open mind. :)
It's starting to get dark and I can hear little kids playing in the neighborhood behind my apartment complex. I remember when I was little my curfew was the streetlight. When the streetlights came on I had about ten seconds to get my butt inside my house because if my mom or dad came out and they were on and I wasn't inside, I'd be in trouble. I loved summer the most then. The sun was out longer which means that the street lights came on later and I could still go play after dinner.
I think I'm going to go inside and see if I can put some stuff together to make dinner for myself.
Adios bloggers.
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