Date Night (03/08/08)

Kerri and I had a date night tonight. Date nights in Zambia are a little different than those in the U.S. Whereas in the U.S. you have many choices of where to go and what to do, here, we only have one—Arcades. Arcades is a shopping center about a mile from our house. There, you can watch a movie or go bowling. Since we didn’t feel like having too much of a southern date night, we chose the movies instead of bowling. 

The theater here is comparable to ones in the U.S. except in cost. For the two of us to get tickets it cost 23,000 kwacha—about $6.00. What’s funny is that our cokes and popcorn cost almost just as much—20,000 kwacha. And while everything else is so slow in getting to Africa, apparently the movies are not. So, no, we didn’t go and watch the sneak preview to the Goonies or ET.  We watched a new release. After the movie was over, Kerri and I both commented to each other on how weird it is to have such a westernized experience and then step back outside into Africa.

A special thanks to the Allens who watched our kids and let us borrow their car. We couldn’t have had date night without them.