I took the girls to see “The Princess and the Frog” at the cinema Saturday morning. It was good and the girls enjoyed it, although Phoebe got a bit fidgety for the last 20 minutes or so but I think that’s because she ran out of popcorn – note to future self don’t let her start on the popcorn till the film actually starts – she ate more than Rhiannon and I combined!
Then after doing the weekly supermarket shop and when Guy got back from work, yes another Saturday morning in work, we all went out for dinner to Spur which is a Tex Mex/Burger restaurant which the kids like because they have a kids area with a small bouncy castle, climbing wall (Rhiannon nearly made it to the top without any help) and a slide. Guy and I like it because they have staff who look after the kids in the play area.
We were going to go to the beach after lunch but it was just too hot (32°C plus you add 3 or 4 degrees for the humidity factor) so we went to the pool instead. Mum, you are going to be so proud of the girls, you said you wanted 2 water babies and while we’re not quite there yet they are coming along in leaps and bounds.
Just to put it into context, for those of you who don’t know, before Christmas Rhiannon screamed if she even got a bit of water splashed on her face, now, she jumps into the deep end of the pool with no one to catch her just an inflatable hoop round her middle. We bought her some goggles which I must admit I was a little dubious about but she goes right under the water, waves to Guy or I, gives us a big grin, and then comes back up and half the time she doesn’t even pinch her nose.
We’re still not great on the actual swimming but both girls are happy to “swim” round the pool with a hoop round their middle without Guy or I holding on to them.
Then in the evening Guy and I went to see Eddie Izzard (English stand up comic for those of you who don’t know) at the ICC in Durban. Most visiting comics, musicians etc tend to stick to just Jo’burg or Cape Town so woohoo to Eddie for coming to Durban. He is also back to being funny again which is a plus because a couple of years back in my opinion he lost the funny. My word, did he complain about the heat (in a humorous way) – the general thrust of his gig was as per usual the entire history of the planet with pot shots at the Bible, e.g. “there probably was a big flood and some bloke called Noah who built a boat, but the whole 2 by 2 thing just doesn’t work. I mean, why hasn’t the Discovery Channel tried to do one of their historical recreations on this…” Cue highly amusing ramblings about the press (including CNN and the BBC World Service) interviewing Noah and the animals as they come off the ark after 40 days and 40 nights of flood – or as Eddie put it “it’s really just 40 days isn’t it, you don’t normally book a hotel for, say, 4 nights and get asked if you want the 3 days as well”.
We got the DVD of this tour at Christmas but held off watching it until we saw him live so not sure if everything is the same, he did admit the first 10 minutes or so were mainly ad-lib but you can never tell with stand ups. One of the funniest bits related to a deviation from a discussion on God talking to Moses via the burning bush to superheroes and the Fantastic Four. “The Human Torch – says “Flame On” and bursts into flame, fair enough, but also gains the ability to fly. You may as well be able to go “Cheese on”, transform into a being covered with cheese and have the ability to scuba dive!”
Anyway, we both thoroughly enjoyed it and reckon there must have been a fair few Brits in the audience, since several people got a reference he made to John Craven from Newsround (children’s news programme presenter of the 70s to late 80s).
Quiet day today I think although poor Guy is back in work again this morning and will be doing more work after we get back from going out for dinner again (too hot to cook). yes mum I will be going to the gym this week.
UPDATE: Too hot to cook but we still had a roast dinner!
February 7, 2010 at 3:55 pm |
Is it still the Stripped Tour? The Noah bit sounds familiar. We saw him in Tampa around this time last year. It was my first time seeing him live and it was a great venue for it, too. He even came out into the lobby and did a Q&A and Chris got to ask him a question (I think about if he was going to pick up the new iPhone when it came out in the stores… he used his phone a lot during the show).
Glad the girls are getting to be swimmers! The challenge will be keeping it up when you guys are back in England and the weather isn’t quite so conducive to it. Although you guys have a lot of indoor pools there, so maybe that’s not too bad.
February 7, 2010 at 5:56 pm |
Yes it was the Stripped Tour, he is doing a few special dates over here, all the profits are going to Nelson Mandela’s 46664 campaign. Typical Chris to ask about the iPhone.
February 8, 2010 at 1:54 pm |
Quite jealous of getting to see Eddie Izzard. I’ve been listening to some of his earlier stuff whilst swimming.
The closest we get is people going to Singapore/Hong Kong or Bangkok. There was talk of a trip to Hong Kong to watch a gig, but it never materialised. Maybe next year. Mind you as I pretty much have to go overseas for squash and books, gigs doesn’t seem that unreasonable!