Brooklyn On Valentine’s Day

Sunday, February 14, 2016

Happy Valentine’s Day to my favorite girl.

Since it was Valentine’s Day, Gerry, Rachel and I  went to see “Brooklyn”, a certified “chick flick” about a young Irish girl leaving her mother & sister behind and coming to the US in 1950.  It’s a story about the difficulties she faced in the US during that time frame.  I won’t go into detail about the story but  it was a good movie.  I even enjoyed it.  The movie was actually filmed in Canada from what I could tell.  It did look real though with old brownstone homes.

The movie theatre was an old one in the Paddington section of Sydney.  There was a new experience for us in that we had "adult beverages" during the movie.  The drinks were served in glasses.  As we entered the theater we were even treated to a Hershey kiss in celebration of the day.  There was a table set up for us to deposit our glasses as we left.  The area where the theater was located was once a working class neighborhood & has been “gentrified” as they call it here.

After the movie we went to a Lebanese restaurant that Rachel is fond of.  Gerry & I both enjoy Lebanese food so it was a win win choice for us.  They served up a super meal & we were stuffed when we left a couple hours later.

The restaurant was a BYO place meaning you brought your own liquor.   There was a “bottle” store next door so the girls went there and bought a nice bottle of French Rose wine.  We managed to finish off the wine and then made our way home.  We slept good that night.