Saw "The Horse Boy"

After a minor amount of research, I discovered that "The Horse Boy" was only presently scheduled in two places near me.

In Atlanta starting November 20. I thought about arranging a trip with my wife to the N. Georgia mountains and watching the movie on our way through ATL. However, when I contacted the movie theater to try and confirm they were going to have the movie, they said I needed to check on November 17 ... that would be the first day to confirm. Well, it is hard to arrange a get away to the mountains, which revolved around seeing this movie, if I was not 100% they would be showing it. Therefore, plan B ...

It was showing in Chattanoga starting last Friday the 18th till tomorrow. One week only! I desperately wanted my wife and I to make the 2 hour trek together and watch the movie. I thought 4 hours in the car together and nice dinner out, in addition to the movie, would be a nice way to spends some quality time together. Well, we could not go the 18th-20th and finding a weekday babysitter on short notice to stay 7-8 hours with three children is not exactly an easy thing to do.

Well, I was sitting in the office yesterday and finally decided that this movie may never show anywhere close by (it might show on pbs or something, but I did not want to count on that) and if I did not go yesterday, then I may never get a chance to see. I got tickets on fandango, jumped in the car and off I went.

I realized during my drive that I have not had a couple of hours to myself like that in a long time. I used to use alone time in the car as a way to escape and think. Yesterday was a nice little mental getaway.

Well I will have to be honest. I thought the movie would be fairly well attended, even at the 5:30 showing on a random Tuesday. It was me and a grandparent aged couple. That was it. I was surprised. I sure hope this movie was well attended during the other days and times. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. Well, actually it is a documentary. It was not quite as emotional as I thought it might be. I was actually a little nervous about watching it and how I would feel. This whole autism adventure is crazy. As a fairly unemotional and level headed person, I have been awfully emotional and unlevel headed.

more later...