Sunday, April 22, 2007

things to do when you're not studying: go to a drive-in movie

one of the things that recently found its way to my list of things i want to do before i leave cville/ dates to go on was a trip to a drive-in movie theater. there is one out in lexington, about an hour away--hull's drive in. interesting tidbit--it's the nation's only non-profit community-owned drive in.


well, to make a real night of it, we decided to start things off at the cracker barrel. there isn't one here in cville, but there is one about 30 minutes away in waynesboro (where, handily, you can pick up a map of all cracker barrel locations in the us, for use in planning your next road trip.)


anyways, after that we headed further down the road, to hull's drive in. now, i am going to admit that watching a movie in your car is not as comfortable as you might think. but it still is a lot of fun, and it's a great little community gem, and you get to see both movies for $5 if you can sit in your car that long! and i think it will be great once the weather gets nice and you can take yourself some chairs and support their very reasonably priced snack bar and sit outside in the fresh air to watch your movie. anyways, i'm just going to recommend it as a little side trip from cville for those of you who are looking for something a little different to do. and the people are uber-friendly. i loved them. i have decided that if i move back to VA at some point, i want to live close enough to be one of hull's angels and help out at the snack bar on weekends. it's going to be the best.

1 Comments:

Blogger Stormy said...

Do you know why there is no Cracker Barrel in Charlottesville?

Because of Aunt Sarah.

Allegedly.

The story goes that the owners of the CB franchise locally know the owners of Aunt Sarah's in Charlottesville. Because they are similar restaurants, the CB folks said they'd keep their country-cookin' hands off of our town as long as Aunt Sarah's serves up her tasty pancakes. While we're down one Aunt Sarah's (and up one Best Buy), I believe the Pantops location is still going strong.

Anyone who knows better than I this story, feel free to correct me here.

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