When smart phones aren't always that smart, and Tom-Toms can't tell you where to go...

Derek and I went on a double date last night with some friends.  Another friend of our was starring in the Christmas play of "It's a Wonderful Life," at a local university and we went to see it. 

We purchased the tickets through him a couple weeks before hand and our friends arranged for a babysitter for the kids.  We met them at their house with plenty of time to get to the theater and be seated.

But about halfway there, we realized that none of us really knew how to get to the university.  So I texted my dad to see if he could find the address.  He wasn't home, but he has a smart phone so he was able to find the address. 

Next, I entered the address into our Tom-Tom GPS.  Well, tried to enter it.  The street, University Boulevard, didn't exist in the Tom-Tom.  University Way did, but that was in another town 30 minutes away.  NOT where we wanted to go. 

Then my friend handed me her smart phone. She had just got it the day before and didn't know how to use it.  So I tried looking on google maps on her phone while calling a friend who had attended the university on my phone.  The friend directed us to the university but didn't know specifically where the theater was so I continued looking for the "Little Theater" on the smart phone's internet.

Again, no such luck.  Somehow the little theater had escaped the internet and my friend's very cool smart phone was useless.  So we drove around campus for a while looking for signs.  And there were a few, just none for the Little Theater.  We even tried to catch a student.  Yeah, that was a little creepy; a van full of adults chasing down college students at night.  Hmm... not the best idea. 

So finally we went inside a building and asked a student.  They said we were close, but not in the right building.  Thank goodness it was right around the corner.  We ran in thinking the play was already starting (it was a minute or two past the starting time by then), but it hadn't yet!  We were still able to find great seats and make a visit to the ladies room!  Success!!

So the moral of the story is to look up the location before you leave the house!! :)