Yesterday Colin and I decided to go on a “date.” I thought we could go to Paducah, but Colin figured Clarksville was closer, so that’s where we ended up going. When we got there, we went to eat at O’Charley’s, and that’s where the sillyness began.

We love to eat at O’Charley’s. Free bread. Chips and salsa. Yummy goodness. So the waiter comes and asks what we want to drink and asks us if we want any appetizers. I told him we wanted chips and salsa. We got our drinks, appetizers, bread. We ate happily. We got our meal. Everything was fine. Then, the waiter guy asks if we want more chips and salsa (because seconds are on them!) and we say, “Sure!.”

We never got our chips and salsa. We got refills of our drinks. We got asked if we wanted dessert. We got boxes for our leftover food. We got the bill. But no chips and salsa. This happened the last time we went to an O’Charley’s. Except that time, the girl remembered she was supposed to bring us more chips and salsa so she got us some to go. I don’t know what it is with trying to get seconds of chips and salsa there. Maybe the guy forgot because his friends were sitting at the booth behind us and he kept standing there talking to them. He brought us the bill, and Colin whipped out his Visa Gold card, and the guy was just still talking. I moved the plates out of the way so he could see we were ready to pay. Silly.

Okay, so then we went to a few stores: Target, Best Buy, and Borders. Then we had to make our way over to the movie theatre which was an exit away. Neither of us have ever been to this particular theatre, The Great Escape. It’s fairly new I think. Anyway, we got there, found a place to park, and got in line. Yes, a line. There was a line outside to just get in the door. The air outside smelled like manure. I guess it was the mulch in the flower beds. Yuck. Once inside, there was a twisty, Disney World-like line that you had to weave in and out of. Ridiculous. Or maybe not.

See, Colin and I are used to our theatre in Madisonville or the one in Evansville where there’s practically never a line and never a full theatre. We can get to a movie right at it’s starting time and not miss anything or have a problem finding seats. It’s pretty cool actually.

So, back to The Great Escape Movie Theatre. *rolls eyes* So, it’s a pretty big place. There was like an upstairs floor that had games and stuff. Anyway, Colin waited in line while I went to the little ladies room because by that time the O’Charley’s was not agreeing with me. I got in the bathroom, strategically chose a stall at the very back, and began trying to do my business (TMI). I find bathrooms interesting. So many conversations go on in there. Anyway, I’m sitting there, looking around, and notice feet in the stall next to me. Not unusual. You can usually see feet next door when in a busy movie theatre bathroom, but what was unusual was the fact that the feet were pointed at me, not towards the door. These dainty looking, perfectly painted, little toes were pointed my way. I’m thinking, “What is that girl doing? Just standing there?” The next thing I heard was coughing, sputtering, spitting, and splooshing into the toilet next to me. Yes, Miss Perfect was vomiting. Or, to be more specific, it sounded like she was trying to make herself vomit. I guess that one popcorn kernel was too much for her. Gross out.

I get out of the bathroom and Colin has our tickets. We head into the theatre to see 1408 which I hadn’t even heard of but: it was supposed to be scary, it is a Stephen King movie, and it has John Cusack in it. All three are good things. So, once inside, it’s totally dark, the movie has already started, and like all the seats are full. We head up the stairs to see if we could find a seat, but we can’t see anything. We went down to the front and I found two seats. I sat down and Colin was about to when some girl told him someone was sitting there. Then we found two seats over in the front in the corner. Why are there seats there? You couldn’t even see the whole screen and everything was curvy weird looking. So, we sit down and I’m like, “I cannot watch this like this. We have got to get our money back.” So I didn’t even wait for a response from Colin. I just got up and hightailed it to the door. We went to the ticket counter. I didn’t even get in a line. A lady paid for her tickets and I just jumped up there and told the girl we needed our money back because there were like no seats in the theatre. I expected her to say, “Sorry, no can do” to which I was going to reply, “Then you take me in there and find me a seat.” I didn’t have to say that though. She gave us our money back. Colin had to sign a paper where it listed all the refunds they’ve given for the night. So, it made us look more credible because there were 3 people before us on the list who got their money back for the same movie.

We walked out of the theatre and were greeted by the sweet aroma of manure again. :sick: Gag me. I called Katee at home and asked her to look up what time 1408 was playing at Madisonville. 9:45. So, we went to Books-a-Million and then we decided to go check and see what time the movie was playing at the mall theatre.

Colin dropped me off. I went inside to check the movie times. As I was walking to the theatre, this guy comes up to me and asks, “Excuse me ma’am, can I ask you a stupid question?” I stand there for what seemed like forever thinking, “Do I say ‘Yes’ do I walk away and ignore him?” I must have had an awful, irritated look on my face, but I said, “Okaaay.” He says, “First of all, do you live around here? I say no. He asks me if I’m not a local. I say no again. Then he asks me if I am in the military. I say no. So he says never mind then.

The Hopkinsville, Ft. Campbell, Clarksville area of Kentucky and Tennessee has a lot of military people there because of the 101st Airborne army base in Ft. Campbell. Colin was asked at the first movie theatre if he had a military id so he could get a discount.

The movie wasn’t playing until 10:30 at the mall, so I went out to the parking lot and found Colin waiting and told him he needed to get the heck out of Clarksville. It had been a totally weird evening. We drove in the rain back home and headed to the mall there to see the 1408. The girl in front of us asked if the theatre gave military discounts. :stunned:

We had good seats. I bought Colin candy. We got to see the movie! Yay! It was pretty good. People actually screamed at some parts (which was kind of silly because it wasn’t that scary), but I can’t remember the last time I was at a movie and people actually screamed at the movie. It seemed a lot longer than an hour and a half to me though. Anyway, John Cusack is cool. It must be hard acting in a movie where you’re stuck in a room by yourself for almost the whole movie.

Last night was pretty silly. I don’t feel the need to go to Clarksville again for a while.

Ah! I haven’t posted since July June 8th?! *smacks herself* Well, I’ve been busy I suppose. :hmm:

Colin and I just got back from our sort of mini-vacation a couple of hours ago. We went to Louisville on Thursday and went shopping (yay!). Friday we went to Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom. Today, we finished our trip off with a trip to the Louisville Zoo. So, what this means is… I have pictures to share!

Six Flags was pretty fun. When we got there we pretty much headed for the water park and got a locker to dump our stuff in. Then we went on a couple of roller coasters. It was weird because on those two roller coasters, there were only two other people on it with us. It wasn’t very busy for some reason. We had lunch at the water park and then jumped in the wave pool for a little bit. The most exciting thing we did at the water park was float along that lazy river thing twice in a row. Adventurous of us, huh? We did a lot of walking, but that’s not even really worth mentioning.

It was a hot day. We pretty much didn’t really have to wait in line for any of the rides we went on. I think the rides we waited for the longest were the Breakdance or something, and oh man. :stunned: I swear it felt like I was in a washing machine. I was jerked around.

It was pretty rough. We went on the big ferris wheel appropriately named “The Giant Wheel.” We also went on a ride called Rainbow. It was like this ride Holiday World used to have called The Banshee. The very last ride we went on was The Penguin’s Blizzard something or other. It’s a rapid ride, so we were expecting to get wet of course. When we got up to the front of the ride to get on, our raft was already full of about 5 inches of water. Bad sign. That ride was ridiculous! We got totally soaked! Yes, it was a hot day, but this was overkill. After the ride was over, it wasn’t like, “Oh! I got wet! Feels good! Fun!.” It was like, “Oh my lord. I am soaked. I need dry panties. I am miserable.” We actually went and got our stuff from the locker and left after that.

I’ve never taken so many pictures at a zoo before. I guess because every other time I have gone, I was only using a disposable camera. It’s not as easy to take good photographs with a disposable. You can’t check and see how the pictures turn out right away. I love my camera. I pretty much got a picture of every animal. There were lots of random snakes I didn’t take pictures of. Yuck.

I’ve seen gorillas at zoos tons of times. They’re always been some distance away though, like up on a hill or something. We went in this one building, and they had some gorillas that you could see through the glass. There was a male silverback gorilla just standing right there in front of the glass. He was HUGE! Like, oh my gosh. I’d be scared if I ever ran into one of those guys and there wasn’t any glass between us. He started showing off too. It was cool.

I got lots of good pictures. (I’m posting more on my Flickr account soon.) Several of the animals had babies. There was a baby hippo, baby elephant, and…more babies that I can’t remember! So many animals! I tried to pick some really good ones to post in this entry. Maybe it will inspire you to go check out all of my pictures (THEY’RE UP! Click here for more zoo photos!).