Movie Night Under the Stars

Meg and her friends had been talking about having an outside movie night this summer.  Although it was a great idea, neither Meg nor her friends had a projector that would work for that purpose.  Meg asked me about renting one.  As she and I looked into it we realized that buying a project was a lot less expensive than we thought it would be.  We decided to plead our case to Doug and see if he would let us get one for our family.  He thought it was a good idea and this afternoon our new purchase arrived from Amazon.

Cameron was a big help as we learned how to use it.  The directions for setting it up were in small and hard to read print, but he had no problem deciphering the steps.  Soon we had Jaws playing on the wall of our living room.  After finding success with the DVD player and the projector, we then used the Roku with it to watch the ending of Revenge of the Sith.  We were pleased to find out that we could also see Cam's second grade picture on the big screen through the USB port.  The iPhone will need a lightening cable to HDMI cord to use it, but that wasn't a problem for us tonight.

Cam, Doug and I waited until close to 9:00 to start the Empire Strikes Back.  It wasn't quite dark enough to view it well at first, but by 9:30 we had Darth Vader choking one of his generals on the side of our garage.  We were all impressed with how well the projector worked.  It was a lot of fun sitting by the bonfire watching one of our favorite Star Wars movies.  Hoping to use it again soon.