Saturday Night at the Movies...

On Saturday night Abi and I went on a date, dinner and the flicks and a stroll through Manhattan... what could be better?

Our date started in Union Square, we both met there as I'd been with Jonny and Abi had been doing some work at the apartment. Then we went up our old favourite, Wild Ginger by the Pod Hotel for some Chicken Satay and Duck Fajitas. I think it might have been Abi's 6th time of going there (3 of those times were in one week during the summer!).

Then we strolled over to the cinema, it was a bit of a walk but we walked via. the Rockefella Center and Radio City Hall. We even stopped off for some pudding from the Magnolia Bakery.

The trees at 30 Rock look beautiful at night, they have hundreds of little bulbs in the branches and up the trunks, it looks magical - and the ice rink is still at the bottom of the building, so that was lit up and looked really pretty. It wasn't too busy either, so it was nice and peaceful strolling around...

By the time we'd been into Magnolia Bakery we'd realised that we'd missed the showing of the film - so we decided to walk around a bit more, it was such a mild evening and we were feeling a bit giddy and overwhelmed realising that we were just casually strolling around Manhattan and that we LIVE HERE! It's a funny feeling that comes washing over me sometimes...

We took our little cup cakes and ate them in the middle of Times Square underneath all the flashing lights and TV screens, surrounded by all the crowds - eating cupcakes and people watching...

We finally made our way over to the AMC Cinema, near the Tick Tock Diner, we were running a little late - so we got our tickets and went straight into the cinema only to find that the only seats available were on the VERY front row!!! We sat down, cricking our necks and started to watch the adverts. I don't think we'd even watched the whole of the first advert before we walked out again - I felt so sick being that close, it was horrible.

Luckily, the cinemas in New York are designed in such a way that you can buy one ticket but go and see films all night - they only check your tickets in the lobby, and then you go up the stairs to all the screens so you can dip in and out of them all. So we decided we'd wait an hour and go and see the next showing...

Luckily, we managed to be the first ones into the cinema for the next showing and got our seats, smack bang in the middle of the room. We were feeling a little bit sleepy at this point as it was 11pm already and the film hadn't started... but eventually it did, and we saw Date Night!

It was great fun - it was a nice funny, silly film and it was set in New York so it was funny thinking that we'd just been walking around Manhattan that evening too.

We didn't get out of the cinema until past 1am and it was nearer 2am before we got back to the apartment, but it was a lovely night - and about bloody time that we actually got to spend some time together... trips to Miami has consumed all weekends up to now.