"You're all I need, my love, my Valentine"

On Sunday, Bradley and I spent the day in Wellington together.

After making a few detours to farewell dear Tessy, and to pick-up dear Kelsey from the airport we headed to Reading Cinema's to pay for our tickets. What did we see? 'Valentine's Day' of course! Just in case you didn't know that i'm a walking, talking cliche - now you do. 

After getting the best seats in the house (*yuss!) we headed over to 'Sweet Mother's Kitchen' at the end of Courtney Place. The resteraunt's website describes itself as being  heavily influenced by "New Orleans with Cajun and Creole dishes plus Mexican snack food." I had heard that SMK had Beignet's (Ben-yay-s) on the menu. After hearing alot about Beignet's on television a la Café du Monde. Basically a Beignet is a fired donut, not unlike what Maori call 'Fry-bread". Whatever you call it = sounds yummy.

The place was decorated as if it had been hit by a madi-gra parade. We ordered a takeaway portion of Beignet's, paid our $4, and waited in one of the side booths The service was excellent. As we waited, three different wait staff came and asked if we needed a menu, drinks or to deliver E.T.A's on our fried yum-yum's.

 

And yum-yum's they were. They were more yeasty than a fry-bread but in a good way. They were more crunchy on the outside as well, which made them less stodgy. Oh...and they were covered in icing sugar.We are so keen to go back and try a meal at this fantastic little cafe.

 

So....back to the main event..the movie. We shared a popcorn and a large softdrink. We also had a bag of starburst's (which is weird for us, we usually go for chocolate goodness, or icecreams.)

 

We made our way in to the theatre and a few things ticked me off from the get go. Packed theatre? Cool. Being seated next to a girl with a raging cold. Not cool.

30 pre-teen girls celebrating a freinds birthday party? Cool. 30 girls screaming for Taylor Lautner and booing Taylor Swift, everytime they were on the screen? Not cool.

 

I made Brad swap seats with me claiming that he has a better imune system than me, which is true. I couldn't move the girls though. Bummer.

 

Annnnnyway..the movie. Did I like it? In short...yes. Brad & I both agreed that 'Love Actually' was infact a better "film", but I am a sucker for star power, and 'Valentine's Day' had a whole heap!

 

A few things I liked about the Movie...

 

• The previews: 'Boy', 'Mao's last dancer' and 'Date Night'. All different. All movie's that I will be seeing.
  
  
  

• The details: Julia Roberts' character who's name was Kate Hazeltine. In real life Roberts has one daughter, her name is Hazel. I noticed her last name on her uniform. Too cute! 
  
  
  

• When Felecia slid down the wall after kissing her Valentine goodnight. Awww, nothing beats that young love, heart is going to burst, can't believe this is happening to me, feeling! 
  
  
  

• When we first saw Julia Roberts and Bradley Cooper on the plane, the captain says over the intercomm "...three days of rain". A direct reference to the Broadway play called "Three Days of Rain", in which they also starred along side each other.
  
  
  

• The numerous time's that 'Love Actually' poster was featured in the background
  
  
  

Overall loved the movie. Love the man.

XXX