We went to the food court first and grabbed some lunch from Burger Edge. I had their 'Feel the Cheese' burger: prime beef, double tasty cheese, pickled cucumber, lettuce, onion, tomato, and tomato sauce along with a small fries, aioli dipping sauce and a 375ml Pepsi Max. We ate relatively swiftly as there was not long to go before our movie began.
We headed off to the cinema and of course the candy bar. I was full from lunch so I eschewed the sweet treats on this occasion but Earnest grabbed a choc top and a frozen coke. With that out of the way we were off to see the wizard! That's right, the wonderful wizard of Oz. Our movie today, the prequel Oz The Great And Powerful. It was a fun movie, though definitely suitable for kids, and it explains the origins of quite a few of the characters from the original 1939 Wizard of Oz movie.
There was still plenty of time before dinner so we decided to do a couple of other little things before then. Our first stop was a specialist book store. Earnest and I both have kindles, but there is still nothing quite like perusing the shelves of a book store; drinking in the words, the covers, the titles, the blurbs, the texture of the pages, the smell of the paper. This book store, Pulp Fiction, specialises in science fiction, fantasy, crime, and mystery books. Needless to say, quite a bit of time was killed.
I bought, How To Live Safely In A Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu, Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut and a special secret (for the moment) title, a present for Mr Smart from Pengi and myself.
Next we did a spot of grocery shopping and I grabbed a couple of chocolate bunnies for Bugalugs and Caboodle. I am leaving them here at Earnest's place for them to have at Easter.
With not-so-window shopping and errands now completed, it was finally time to head up to a pizzaria for dinner. Pizza Capers is a big chain up here, but I'd never heard of them before thought apparently there are five in Melbourne. It was a nice little place with a few clean tables on the street frontage. We ordered a large Bourbon BBQ Chicken and Bacon pizza (birthday boy's choice) and sat out front, watching the world go by on Leichhardt St.
I ate three slices of pizza and that was enough to sate my appetite. The white stuff was ranch sauce, so overall I'd say the pizza was an acquired taste. Before we left though, we grabbed some special icecream for later with our movies. We walked home again and I'm guessing we covered about 7 km again today, so despite the horrific dietary choices I've definitely been getting my walks in!
When we got back to Earnest's we poured a glass of cider each, The Hills Cider Company Apple & Ginger Cider as it happened, and settled in to watch a movie. It wasn't until almost the end of the first movie that we felt like icecream. We had got our hands two tubs of The Little Ice Creame Shoppe flavours.
Of the two I think I preferred the Red-Velvet Chocolate Cupcake. 'The flavour so crazy it doesn't even have a name' could equally have been called 'The flavour so sweet you'll go into a diabetic coma'. Needless to say, I didn't have as much of that one!
The last movie we watched tonight was Raiders of the Lost Ark, an old favourite. Earnest had read in article on Steven Soderbergh that the great director preferred watching it in black and white, so that's what we did. I have to say, it did translate rather well and even fit the feel of action movies from the days of monochrome cinema.
And now it's late so I'm off to bed. Earnest and I both have a relatively early start tomorrow, him off to work and me off to the airport and home. It's been too short a trip as always, but I'm not certain my girth would survive a prolonged exposure to the type of dietary intake it's had this weekend so perhaps that's for the best.
There is always a next time.
Jess
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