Movie night out... on a sofa?

Just two more weeks until our youngest heads off to university in the States.

We've started thinking about what final adventures we want to have before Lexi leaves, a sort of bucket list if you will.

We have been to so many exciting places and seen some really cool things while living in England. Our timing was "spot on" as they say, having been here during the Royal Wedding, the Diamond Jubilee, the London 2012 Olympics, and now the Royal Birth.

We are down to less extravagant adventures but exciting to us just the same.

One item on our list was a family outing to our local movie house: the Everyman Cinema in Walton.

Our local cinema

Lexi and I saw "The Proposal" at this theater shortly after we moved into our house here in July 2009. Lexi has gone back several times since but Chris had never been.

The cinema got a nice revamp in 2012. The seats are now plush chairs and sofas with pillows and handy little tables for drinks.

Waiting for the movie to begin, Chris and Lexi get comfortable on our couch and my glass of wine awaits me.

We booked a 3-seater sofa and stopped by the bar in the theater (I keep wanting to spell it the English way of theatre). I couldn't resist buying a glass of wine to sip while watching the movie. I realized that was a risky move: sleep-inducing wine in low lights on a comfy couch. But it's not every day that you can bring a glass of wine into the movies.

There are only 2 screens so choices were limited but we saw "Frances Ha". Kind of a strange movie but entertaining.  And I'm happy to report I didn't fall asleep!