Drive-in

Growing up as I did was always filled with so much excitement. One of my favorite memories was when dad would become spontaneous on a Saturday night and we will all pack up to go to the drive-ins to watch the latest movie. As the eldest of 4, I would remember dad doing this quite often as he regarded this as his fun time with us in the car. We would bring along a blanket and also I remember wearing my pajamas a couple of times. An eski will be packed with drinks and snacks to top us off after our predictable KFC family bucket that dad always stopped by to buy on the way.
As kids we would sit in the back with one always fighting for the front middle seat. I remember vividly as we drove into the drive-ins that we would wonder what it was we would be watching tonight. Back then there was always the second screen shown behind us with another movie, it was so cheeky of us as kids as we would also lean on our knees and watch the screen behind us, even though we didn't hear any sound. My innocence as a little girl as I remember now was something that was taken for granted now as as I reflect on it as an adult. How I wish I could go back to the one moment of my life and re-live it. Not with any regret of course, just to be captured back in time would be the feeling of any person really who had a childhood similar to mine.
I always imagined writing a story that would be captured on the big screen just like the one that I was viewing on any of our drive-in nights. My passion for books, characters and learning new words to express my self was something I did naturally as a young girl.This moment of being in the car with my family was truly one of the most innocent and natural moments of my childhood.

A movie I remember watching together with my family was this one.
It was one of the many Herbie movies we watched.