Thomas’ daycare has a Friday Fun night every couple of months where he gets to stay at daycare until 10pm, eating pizza, playing with his friends and watching a movie. OK, not as much fun for the kids and the caregivers as it is for Mum and Dad. This is one of the very few opportunities where Kei and I get to spend some time together doing adult things like dinner and a movie.

Since our night is over at 10pm we start early. This time we decided on happy hour at the Sapphire Hotel. Happy hour in Portland means regularly priced drinks but cheap food. Perfect for a pregnant woman with a big appetite. 🙂

Next we stopped for some Gelato and then made our way to the Laurelhurst theatre to see Atonement. We had planned on No Country for Old Men but it seems they changed the movie time on us and we were working to a strict 10pm curfew. We actually bumped into two other sets of parents at the same movie – neighbours with kids in the same daycare. I guess everyone equates Friday Fun with catching up on the movies they missed.

I was a little skeptical about Atonement since I had tried (and failed) to read the book, but the movie was actually really great. Not very uplifting, but a great story and wonderful cinematography. I would give it an A-. The night overall definitely an A. We had a great time.

We picked Thomas up at 10 which was nearly three hours past his bedtime. He was pretty tired and cranky and didn’t actually want me to touch him which was a little heartbreaking. I had to wake him up three hours into his nap on Saturday so I guess he was pretty wiped out.