A Movie and Dinner with Friends

Southern California is experiencing rain for a few days. Well so far it's really just been spitting - at least during the day anyway. So yesterday we decided to go see a movie - but first, my new phone arrived.

At 9am I went to the post office because my free phone from Bell had arrived. Their 'Loyalty' team had called us a couple of weeks ago to see if everything was okay and I restarted Brad's iphone line since it had come back to life after having coffee poured on it. We thought it was toast so I had it cancelled. I was sitting on my laptop doing something or other and a little box popped up that Brad's iphone was online... whaaaa?

Sure enough when I checked it there it was - barely holding on but I plugged it in and it started charging. So when Bell called (we've been with them for 12 years now), I had his phone restarted.

Bell: "Anything else I can help you with?"

Me: "Well actually yes, any chance I can get a free phone upgrade?"

Bell: "Sure, let me see what I can do...."

They could give me a free iPhone 6. Great! I don't need a fancy schmancy iPhone X or anything, just an upgrade from the 5... unfortunately, their system did not allow her to mail it directly to me in the States. So I had her send it to Brad's Mum who then forwarded it to me... Now I have it! Awesome.

Don't ask, don't get.

So after setting up my new iPhone 6 and transferring Brad's phone from the iPhone 4 onto my old iPhone 5 we decided to go see a movie. The Darkest Hour, What an AMAZING movie! Fantastic acting. It is about the early days of WWII from the perspective of Winston Churchill and the political chess match that was going on at the time.

I won't give away the details but I was watching this film thinking about my Grandparents living their lives while all of this was going on. My parents just babies at the time... 

When you consider that if things hadn't gone the way they did, I wouldn't be here to write this Blog. How awful that would be?! LOL

Also at some point during the day, Karen stopped by while she was out walking Cooper.

Cooper

After the movie we met up with Karen, David, Bob & Barb for supper at Chili's. We had decided to have one last rah-rah before Bob & Barb abandon us Wednesday to head back home. I am so distraught about their departure that I completely forgot to take any pictures! We are definitely looking forward to seeing them next season, sure hope they can make it back into this resort.

Bob & Barb are such a fun couple. They have been married for something like 40 years!! Barb has clearly done a good job training him... I mean .... uh.... nevermind. LOL 

Please come back next year you guys!

Good Morning!

I appreciate all the kind words from my last blog, thank you to all who commented. I'm fine now, have managed to put it behind me but that was a rough day. Brad has been handling me with kid gloves - which I hate, so I hope he snaps out of that today...

Yesterday I was still fairly subdued so we went to a movie! Late morning matinee (11:40am) Haven't been to a movie in ages. A Mountain Between Us it was really good, we both enjoyed it. When we walked in he went to the Concession and I went to the Loo, typical. I said I'd have a large popcorn and a root beer and off I went.

Well, I forgot where I was because when I met him at the Concession counter we both had these enormous buckets of popcorn. Remember the KFC buckets from the 70'? -not today's version but the honkers they had back then? That's what these buckets were - huge! He managed to eat all of his and I had only eaten the top 3 inches of mine so I handed him my bucket and he couldn't do it. That should tell you just how big these things were. He had also ordered large drinks and they were about to fill them when he realized that they were also massive so changed the order to a smaller cup size, just as well since I only drank about half of the smaller version.

We came home and just relaxed the rest of the day, I didn't have to make dinner because we were both still full from the popcorn. About 8pm I made him a bowl of Ichiban noodles and I had some hummus and crackers.

We watched a bit of cable (thank you Bruce) and before we knew it it was 11pm. Off to bed.