Saturday

We had another breakfast out this morning thanks to M's purchase of vouchers from Living Social. This was for a Mediterranean-themed restaurant/cafe in Southport near where E and B live. S and A joined us as well. It doesn't seem like just a week since we last saw them at the markets. Breakfast was good but we didn't linger for the usual two or more hours that is the norm. We must have all had a busy day planned. Certainly S and A did because A had decided it was time they did their Christmas shopping. Little did we realise but what we had planned was a trip to the Post Office to collect our newly printed Festive Season cards - and then to have a coffee (milkshake for S) and then a visit to the cinema - in the same complex. I suggested a movie and to my surprise S said yes - to “Breaking Dawn Part 2” - the final chapter in the Twilight Saga. S has shown little to no interest in Twilight previously - so it was a big thing to come to the ending without really having any knowledge of the beginning and middle. As it turns out, there really wasn't that much to tell her to bring her up to speed: Girly girl who missed out on the feminism movement falls in love with a vampire (and possibly with a werewolf), wants to become a vampire, marries the vampire, becomes pregnant, and while giving birth to a half-vampire child nearly dies but is saved when the vampire turns her into a vampire. Move on to “Breaking Dawn Part 2”. The special effects were amazing - which is why I wanted to go (not necessarily for closure but there certainly was a fair amount of that!).

Then we went home, and after a short interlude, we were off again to the Mayor's Carols by Candlelight. But that's a story for another day.