Finally!  After waiting for years, my hometown of Simpsonville now boasts a coveted IMAX theater!  Great Escape Theaters has opened the Great Escape 14/IMAX theater on South Rd literally down the road from the church I grew up in and just a few miles from where I was born, grew up and graduated high school.  It is the single most awesome thing in the history of awesome!

But I digress.  Paige had a live broadcast at the Great Escape from 6 until 8 last night in support of the theater’s charitable grand opening as they were (and are through Thursday) offering free movies and popcorn for a suggested $2 donation benefitting the Make-A-Wish Foundation.  I joined her as soon as I got off work so I could see the place for myself (do I even need to mention the size of the crowd or should I say mass horde?!) and later met up with some friends to experience last year’s Star Trek remake on the theater’s magnificent IMAX screen!

During the film, it occurred to me just how awesome it was that I was watching a killer movie on a huge IMAX screen and still just a short driving distance from my very own bed and not in Florida, Charlotte, Charleston or the Mall of Georgia in Buford, GA!  Words cannot even describe the feeling that gives me!  I have found a new home (not very far) away from home!