Movies in Beach

Over the past week and a half that I've been in North Dakota, the two most exciting things I've done have been in Beach, ND - the Bijou Showhouse to be exact. Click on that link and you'll get a tour of exactly what you'd see if you were there, in all its small-town glory.

The Bijou Showhouse is the closest theater to Medora, ND. I blogged about it last year, but as a recap, here's what you need to know. It plays one movie per weekend with Friday, Saturday, and Sunday showings only. The owner is a nice guy by the name of Emmanuel who is a Beach transplant - sent there by a spiritual adviser to start a new life. If you go to a movie there, you may as well stop for dinner at La Playa Mexican Restaurant, where it's ok to show up 30 minutes before the movie starts because you'll finish your food and be ready to enter the theater with the rest of Beach at exactly 7:30pm. That's right, there is absolutely no need to get there until the show is suppose to start because there are so few people in line and Emmanuel will wait to start the show until the main group has taken their seats. If you want something to eat during the show - no problem! For $5 you can get three boxes of candy and two cans of soda. Regular tickets are still only $6.

We went to see the Cohen Brother's Burn After Reading and Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist for the last two weekends. Last Sunday, we had a bit of a panic attack when La Playa was closed for dinner. There's really not much else in town, so we tried the Dairy Queen - only ice cream. So we drove back out to the highway and checked out the restaurant attached to the Flying J - Country Market. It turned out to be a very viable option - actually, who am I kidding - they had the best fried chicken I'd ever had. Mmm, mmm!

So, if you're wondering what we do in ND besides watch repeated episodes of Arrested Development. Rest assured that we keep ourselves busy enjoying the squishy, magenta chairs and comfy atmosphere of the Bijou Showhouse.