For Fathers Day this year, we took Dave in to Toronto for a play and dinner. The play was a live performance of Paranormal Activity, and as that was a movie we had all enjoyed when it first came out, we were interested to know how it would translate onto the stage. And it was a lot of fun! Mal might (and did) complain that they could have come up with a better script, but I wasn't interested in critically treating this as some noteworthy piece of art. There were bangs and jump scares — along with a few really cool how-did-they-do-that stage effects — and just having an interesting experience alongside our kids was all Dave or I needed out of it.
We then went to Milestones for dinner, and despite being a sort of pricey restaurant, it was just kind of OK (again, Mal was the least impressed: one of the reasons we chose this restaurant was for its plant-based options, but Mal's dinner wasn't very tasty; mine was fine.)
HOWEVER, I've said it before and I'll say it again: Dave and I are super grateful that our kids, now at 30 and 28, want to hang out with us (Dave was shocked by how many young people were in this theatre without their dads on a Fathers Day Sunday), and I'd choose a mindless play and an okayish dinner in their company than just about anything without them. These are wonderful young people because they were raised by a wonderful Dad.
