Sunday

The weather was absolutely beautiful today, again. We had more pancakes, strawberries and maple syrup for breakfast then headed to the Aquarium to meet Andy's friend Zach and his girlfriend Laurie for an Amazing Imax Experience. Andy and I were early so we got a couple of green tea frappuccinos and sat on a bench watching the stupidly rich people on their stupidly expensive yachts. Sigh. I'm just jealous. The frappuccino was yummy though. We spotted a greasy spoon type van selling what I can only presume to be some sort of local delicacy - boneless chicken slush. Sounds delightful! We had a chuckle over it anyway :o)

When we met up with Zach and Laurie we decided to go for a wander around Little Italy before going to see the shark movie at the Imax cinema. After a bit of wandering around it was time for beer. Mmmm, Sunday afternoon beer in the sun. Lovely! Then we decided to head to a restaurant recommended by Andy's cousin. Apparently people drive up from New York to eat in this place and Andy's sister, who lived in Italy for a while, said it serves the best Italian food she'd ever tasted. Wow! We had to find the place. It's called Mauritzio's by the way, just in case you find yourself here and hungry. We found it but the flipping place was shut. Bah! So we went for some food in somewhere far inferior instead. Ho hum.

Then we went to the Imax to see the 3-D shark show. I have to admit I wasn't sure what to expect. I had vague memories of getting 3-D glasses free on the front of the Radio Times in the mid-80s for viewing Jaws or something and being underwhelmed by the experience. Everything was red and green, at the same time. It was weird. Well, 3-D technology has advanced in the last 20 years but it's still weird... in a really good way. It was blimming amazing in fact. There you are sitting in a cinema, but to your brain it looks like you're right in the middle of a school of little pink jelly fish and sharks are swimming about a foot in front of your face. Cor! The film in itself wasn't David Attenborough-y enough for my taste but it was a delight to watch nonetheless. Now if they could take that technology and apply it to the Blue Planet series we'd be cooking with gas!

Then it was time for another beer in the sun. Ah nice :o)

Now we're back in Brighton chillaxing and eating Almond M&Ms, which are pretty dang tasty by the way. Don't worry, I'll bring some back and I'll even try my best not to scoff them all.

So I got round to doing something touristy but still only took pictures for a cheap laugh. Ah well, why fight your natural instincts?

Oh, and if anyone's wondering what happened to Saturday we didn't leave the house at all. Tee hee!