Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs in Sayville

It did rain this past weekend, but not meatballs. When it's raining outside, that is a great time to take the kids to the movies. And one of the best kept secret is Sayville Cinemas - just off Main Street in Sayville. Most moms of school aged children know about Sayville Cinemas, but if you have younger kids or even if you don't have kids, it's a great and cheap place to see a movie.

Sayville Cinemas ticket price everyday, including weekends and holidays, before 6pm is $5 per ticket - for adults and kids. And all day and night on Tuesdays it is $5 a ticket, they call it Bargain Tuesday. If you miss the $5 time slots, regular priced movie tickets are $7 for adults and $6 for children. Still a great deal! Going to those new fancy movie theaters with 16 screens will cost you a fortune. Stay local in Sayville.

Sayville Cinemas has not changed much over the years. You get a hometown, Mom and Pop feeling when you go there. They have four screens, lots of parking and all the same first rate movies as the big chain movie houses. Their treats are very reasonable too. A large popcorn is $4.75 and a box of candy is $2.75 - you cannot find these prices at other movie theaters.

And now for the movie we saw at Sayville Cinemas - "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs". It was a great movie and the kids really enjoyed it. And it is a movie that adults will like watching too. This movie is rated PG, but this Examiner did not feel there was anything in the movie that was inappropriate for kids. In our group there were children ages 3 to 6. If you have read the book "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" as a kid or to your kids - the only thing that is the same as the movie is food falling from the sky. So even though the book is different from the movie, both are entertaining for your children.

Sayville Cinemas, 103 Railroad Avenue, Sayville, NY 631-589-0232

SayvilleCinemas.Com

Advance purchase of tickets available in person and online

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For more info on cheap things on Long Island - check out Keeping it Frugal.

Kids Eat Free

It's true - kids eat for free at J & R's Steak House Sunday - Thursday. You have to have a paying adult to get a free meal and there are only certain items that are free, but it's food kids love. My kids enjoyed their free meal as much as Mom and Dad did paying for it. J & R's Steak House runs all sorts of specials. There are happy hour, early bird and senior specials.

They have five locations on Long Island and we went to their newest one on Main Street in Patchogue. If you cannot find parking in the front - there is plenty of parking in the back, but there is no back entrance so you have to walk through a walkway to the front. When we went on a Thursday night at 6pm and we had to wait about 20 minutes for a table. Service is great, food is great and price is great.

Go to J & R's web site http://jandrsteakhouse.com - there's lots of great stuff here. You can sign up on their site for email specials - which I did. And J & R's has online coupons. I printed one for a free appetizer and they gladly accepted it.
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