Tuesday, 19 March 2013

He's the top of the west, always cool, he's the best...

So what did I do today? Washed my hair and my clothes, much to my delight, drying them in the dryer (my clothes not my hair!). I then took the bus into town and bought two cinema tickets, for today and tomorrow. Then I went to the museum, Te Papa. Guess what they've got in the museum in Wellington...
Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni! Yes! That's right!
Only I'm not a big fan of the 'Colossal Squid', I'm an Architeuthis girl through and through. I only had time to look at one of the exhibitions in the museum as I had to be back at the cinema, to see my film. Armed with a posh ginger beer in a glass bottle and a bag of Skittles, I settled into my seat in the Embassy theatre, the classiest building I've ever been in. Comfy leather seats and armrests, wooden cup holders, and immaculately clean. It is a cinema where you can order food from the restaurant or drinks from the bar, and have them delivered to your seat. It is the cinema the Hobbit World premier was held in. I was in heaven. I found the experience so wonderful in fact, that I started falling asleep halfway through Django Unchained (my third viewing of the masterpiece!) I fought my dreams off for the rest of the film, often missing sections of 2 or 3 minutes. My eyes burned. It was an epic struggle much akin to Django's struggle in the film. I successfully saw the end of the film through, just staying awake for my favourite song, and then crawled to the bus home, which went without incident. Once I got home I toyed with walking the long walk to where I was staying before and the supermarket but my host assured me it was further and I thought and I should go for a walk on the seafront. I don't like beaches (not to be mistaken with beeches, which I LOVE!) and it turns out, I don't like beaches even when they're the other side of the world. So I decided I would see how far I could walk before I had to stop. I walked to the supermarket after all, and was disappointed to remember I had only a little money as I hadn't planned on going. So I bought myself 2 packets of dried mango and dragged myself home (it was that windy). I took a chance on some green mango too this time and it is all gone! Oh well! Tomorrow I will walk back and get some proper shopping on my way back from Wellington proper. I must admit, I quite like it 'here'... (Shhh, Don't tell anyone, it'll spoil my pessimistic reputation!)





3 comments:

  1. I've been to that cinema, we saw A Knights Tale there and i lived a bit further up the road above one of the car show rooms! It is lovely there. Enjoy x

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  2. Wow! The cinema looks beautiful! (I never thought I would hear myself saying that)We are going to the cinema tonight, I will be very disappointed if it does not look like that, (The Carmarthen Apollo is now Vue, just a bit of inside info for you there!)
    I like this blog, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. :) I am glad you made your decision to go back and that you are happy with it,it would have been too easy to be willful about it, so bloody well done you! :)
    I hope it has stopped raining, I presume so, as you went on a long walk.I saw Lesley and took cake, (she had read the blog and was expecting it!!) :D
    LOVELY carrot cake from the little bakery around the corner. Well carry on the good work and don't forget, I love you. Your mum xxx

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  3. What an amazing place to watch Django Unchained, despite the distractions. At least you didn't have 'strange noise man' in the same row...

    Becky x x

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