Well this week end was special, Paul has a birthday coming up on the 8th and I wanted to fill the whole week end with fun. The celebrations started on Friday evening with dinner at the Chesterfield with our friend Rachael. It was a nice evening, and a lovely meal. It was good to unwind with a glass of wine, and some good company.
On Saturday we were up early to head to Nottingham, we arrived there just after 9am and headed to the Broadmarsh shopping centre for a coffee and a look around. A large part of the centre has been closed off for a long time due to renovations. So not really much to see, however we were planning to visit the caves, and they didn't open till 10am. The entrance is in the shopping centre, which is built over a large series of caves. Just after 10am we headed to the caves, and found their was a tour setting off at half past, there was only us and another couple. It was great to have such a small group. The guide was very informative, and the tour took about 50 minutes. Throughout the tour he stopped to tell us about the history of the caves. The city of Nottingham has more man-made caves than anywhere else in Britain. There are over 500 caves dating back to the Dark Ages, the last of which were in use until as late as the 1940`s. The caves have been used as a tannery, bar cellar, and mostly recently as an air raid shelter in WW2. When we left the City of Caves, we headed down to Las Iguanas for lunch, one of our fave restaurants. Lunch was fabulous, especially my starter!! I had roasted coconut butternut squash taco's! We both had raspberry coolers to drink, I can highly recommend them.
After lunch we had a walk up to the cathedral church of St. Barnabas, its a beautiful place. We spent a little while there just taking it all in. The choir had just started to practice, and they were pretty amazing. I wish we had got to hear more. We did do a little shopping too, but honestly the city was now so crowded you could barely move. But it was a lovely day, warm and sunny with a pleasant breeze. I really wanted to pop into HMV. And luckily they had what I wanted, The new Taylor Swift album and the DVD 'Walking on Sunshine'. By the time we got home we were both shattered.
In the evening we watched my new DVD which I had been wanting to see for ages. Walking on Sunshine is fantastic. With beautiful Italian scenery and a wonderful 1980's soundtrack, its one of the best movies I have seen in ages. I absolutely loved it. Definitely one I will be watching again and again.
Today Paul and I went to Dobbies Garden centre at Mancetter for afternoon tea, another pre-birthday treat. It was so nice, sandwiches, scones and jam, and finally an assortment of cakes. So yummy, and as we hadn't had any lunch we managed to finish it all. We also spend a couple of hours looking around the garden centre, I got the most gorgeous vintage stationery, and I think Paul might have bought someone special another birthday present!! Once again the weather was lovely, and we so enjoyed the day. I loved looking around all the summer houses etc outside, I can imagine us having one out in our garden. Don't think it will ever happen, but I can dream.
This evening we've been watching DVD's and I surprised Paul with a birthday cake. Complete with candles. Nearly set myself on fire lighting the darn candles....OOPS!!! And the celebrations aren't over yet! But I think so far Paul has enjoyed his pre-birthday celebrations.
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