Random stuff from the weekend

This post is a little random. I am sitting in class as my students work on homework and ask me questions every now and then (and getting pretty bored).

This past weekend Justin and I went to the movies (something we only do a few times a year) and saw The Dark Knight on IMAX. First of all - we thought the movie was great! But I have to admit, I really don't think it was worth the price to see on the IMAX. Considering if we had gone to the theater closest to our house (which is a really good theater) we would have spent $6.75 a ticket (for the matinée) and we spent $16 a ticket (since we ordered online, otherwise it would have been $14 a ticket). Yeah, I have to say - not worth more than double to see on a giant screen. Just the DLP screen at our regular theater would have been fine.

Then when the movie was over Cafe Adobe smelled so good and we were starving! Plus, we figured we could get some good Tex-Mex for about the same price that everyone else was eating movie nachos and hot dogs (BTW, I LOVE living in Texas where there is great Tex-Mex - there was no decent Mexican food when we lived in Florida). It is kind of funny, because when Justin was talking about what to get, he said he couldn't decide whether to order his food with no cheese, or just take a lactose enzyme tablet he had and have the good stuff. I was actually pretty surprised (and impressed with his self restraint) when he ordered his food with "no cheese". Of course when his food came with cheese anyway, he wasn't about to complain. And we were both pretty happy that the lactose enzyme tablets seems to work pretty well and he had no effects from eating his food with cheese.

However, since we don't want to cheat all the time and just have Justin take lactose enzymes, we headed to Central Market in search of more lactose-free substitutions for Justin. This was the first time either of us had ever been to Central Market before and we were pretty impressed with how much stuff they had. However, we weren't impressed with the prices - ouch!!! Lactose-free items mean more expensive items. Since we are only experimenting with this stuff, we only bought a little - a couple things of soy yogurt, tofutti sour cream and cheese, non-dairy ice cream. However, in the end we spent over $40. Personally, I think it is much more cost efficient for me to continue cooking with regular cheese and all and have Justin take his lactose enzyme tablets. Isn't that terrible?

Anyway - just some ramblings from our weekend!