Then Saturday night was an enjoyable dinner party at Gran and GrandPaul's house, topped off with BallFiend staying the night so that (in theory) we could sleep in on Sunday. (Of course, Thumper had other ideas, waking at 5 am for an early feed.)
On Sunday morning, we raced off at 10.00 am to see the 11.45 am screening of Avatar 3D at Victoria Gardens (I chose this cinema because they have a 'crying' room - a soundproof room where parents with screaming kids can still watch the movie without annoying everyone else). We only just got to the cinema before the scheduled start time because DeepSpice decided to make us a cooked breakfast 45 minutes before we needed to leave. (I should have stopped him, but who can turn down bacon and eggs!) And also because, even on a Sunday morning, there was no bloody parking at the shopping centre.
Anyway, after the rush to get there, they didn't start the movie until 30 minutes after it's advertised time anyway. Humph! Thumper was an absolute angel throughout. She sat quietly in my arms watching the movie for some of the time, breastfeed and slept the rest through the rest of it. Although I had to keep my hands over her little ears a lot of the time because the sound was deafening!
The day was not-so-romantically concluded by a stop-off at Ikea for some shelving that we desperately need for the kids' bedroom. We arrived home exhausted but no rest for the wicked... Gran and GrandPaul arrived about half an hour later to drop BallFiend back and to deliver some extra goldfish for our pond (as they are about to landscape their garden and are getting rid of the fishpond.)
PS. Happy Chinese New Year - the Year of the Tiger. Takes one to know one...
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