Cinema & Family Visits

This was a busy week for us. Pete's travel plans changed so he was at home all week, which is always a good thing.

On Wednesday we went to the Plymouth Vue cinema to see Avatar in 3D with a group of friends. The eight of us had all sat watching the trailers in 3D in expectation of the film and after only a few minutes the film was stopped and a representative of Vue came out to say the projector bulb had blown. As the bulb was very hot it would take a while to change, so we had to sit and wait, however, we were all issued with an open complimentary ticket for any other time. The film started about 20-25 minutes later and was very good, both as a story and technically - some really good uses of 3D.

After the film we all stopped of at an Indian in Modbury. Being a Wednesday out of season the place was dead, but to be fair to them the food was good and we all had a nice time.

Early Friday evening Julie's brother Gary and his wife Jeanette arrived for the weekend. It's always good to see them and great that they came down to see us. Julie is doing some work on their daughter's wedding (adjusting the dresses and doing the flowers) so they will be down again in a few weeks with the bride to be and her bridesmaid.

On Saturday we went across to East Portlemouth on the ferry and in the afternoon went to Hope Cove. The weather was really good - not quite sunbathing standard, but warm non-the-less. At Hope Cove the sea was battering the sea wall and although a little windy on-shore it was still really pleasant.

Saturday evening saw us attending an exhibition at the Mayne Gallery in Kingsbridge. We have an original we bought there last year and a couple of limited edition prints we had them frame for us, so are always interested in seeing new works, however, the new works didn't really take our interest, but they do still have a lot of pictures we liked. We followed the exhibition with a tapas meal at the Old Bakery. A very tasty and reasonably priced meal that we all enjoyed.

On Sunday we went to Hall Sands and walked up to Start Point along the SW Coastal Path. Hall Sands has been somewhere Pete has wanted to visit for a while so it was good to finally get there. We never really had a plan, but we all had our boots and hiked up to Start Point. It was muddy and slippery, there was low cloud and mist and despite all that we had a good time, although never realised it was as far or such a climb. When we got to the lighthouse it was closed. The fog at times was bad enough for the light to be on and the foghorn to be sounding, but fortunately not when we were next to it!

On Sunday afternoon Gary and Jeanette went home only to be replaced by our daughter Gemma and her friend Kirby with her son Jack. Another busy week in the run up to Easter.