Had a great night’s sleep. We were on a fold-down sofa/futon in Kevin & Chris’ loft conversion and I slept like a log. Wandered down to the kitchen and helped myself to the coffee. Chris was just back from his early morning gym session and Kevin was watching the preamble to John Kerry’s speech from the previous night. We watched that until Brett finished his shower and we were ready for brunch at a café they know.
After brunch it was more chatting (and John Kerry speech watching) before we decided we’d better move on. Kevin and Chris were due elsewhere for a wedding tomorrow and needed to get packed and travelled. I’m glad we did stay over with them though, as they’ve been the most relaxed about chatting to me.
Once back at the parents’ place, I napped for a while before being roused to go shopping. Brett’s mum needed groceries and Brett had finally decided to bite the bullet and buy another suitcase. After the shopping and the coffee, we headed over to Susan and Ali’s house ready to rendez-vous for dinner at TGI Friday’s.
They have a trampoline in their yard and Brett and I both indulged. Great fun – and god knows we need the exercise! Joshua, Jean-Paul and Kathrine (Steve & Kathleen’s children) were all there too, as their parents are at the same wedding Kevin and Chris were going to. After the trampolining we were all assembled and so headed to the food place.
Dinner was standard TGIF fare. Back at the house we had time for a few hands of Texas Hold-em poker and to listen to Josh playing the guitar, at which he is good, before Brett, Susan and I headed on to a local cinema complex to see ‘I, Robot’. The movie wasn’t as bad as I’d feared it might be. It wasn’t any one of the Asimov short stories, but it was in the right vein and true to the Three Laws of Robotics, so I was quite content with it – although they did seem to be trying to turn Will Smith into a sex symbol, as there were plenty of gratuitous body shots.
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