A slow start today. Breakfasted in phases. First there was coffee and the papers, that was followed some time later by granola and milk and around about lunchtime, we had pancakes and the maple syrup we brought from Montreal. I have to say that homemade pancakes taste a whole pile better than the ones we’ve been eating in diners.
Eventually Brett & I headed out across town to the IMAX cinema to watch Spiderman 2. Dallas is very low-rise and spread out. As Brett said, if you have plenty of space, why bother building close or up? Stairs only take up space. Richmond, the suburb where we are staying has a bit of a ‘Pleasantville’ feel about it. It’s all perfectly manicured lawns and neat rows of mailboxes on empty streets. As we circled around the centre though, we found more untidy places which felt more lived-in. Even so you see very few people on the streets – especially in the suburbs. In the space of a half-hour drive, I think I saw two adults (loading up a car), a jogger and a boy playing with a dog. People just don’t walk around here.
The movie was very entertaining – there’s a particularly good cameo which most of the UK audience will miss. At one point, Spiderman is losing his powers and has to take the elevator down from the roof. On the way down a man with his dog gets into the lift and exchanges some smalltalk about the costume. The man is played by the one of the guys from the US version of 'Queer As Folk' who is very much into Comic Books and Superheroes. Kind of cute.
After the movie, we took a run down to the gay area and had a coffee and a look around the bookstores and shops. Plenty of interesting (and bizarre) stuff, but nothing that made me want to stuff my suitcase any further.
Went out for a TexMex dinner with Brett’s mum when we got home, then watched some TV and off to bed.
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