Extra day? Time for a day out!

So Janine and I had arranged quite a while ago to finally have our girlie day out in Leeds. We were a little worried at one point that it wouldn't go ahead as we have had so much rain and the trains around here aren't the most reliable, but it was fine, they ran.

Bubbling magic drink!

Matt took us up to Ribblehead and the train arrived on time.  We got seats, shortbread and a drink from the trolley and settled down to watch the scenery go past. We got into Leeds and headed straight to the Alchemist for cocktails.  The Alchemist does a great range in cocktails - very expensive but great for showmanship.  I very much like anything with dry ice and chemistry type glasses etc.  First one I went for was a colour changing one where you pour in two different liquids at different times and the drink changes colour whilst bubbling with dry ice.  Great entertainment and tastes good too.   Next one was pimms, gin, ginger beer and mint, with dry ice of course.  Really tasty and very cool too.

Then we headed to the corn exchange and then Bundobust for lunch and a beer.  Then another walk including a stop at TK Maxx and a very giggly incident around a huge pink waterproof poncho thing. Next stop was Alchemist but the other Alchemist.  But OMG - the clientele was quite different.  It was full to bursting with young 20 and 30 year olds - all of whom were very orange, bleached hair, HUGE eye lashes, pouty lips, weird tights with no heels, in shiny black pants and leopard print blouses.  It was stifling and suddenly J and me felt very old, very frumpy and very in the wrong place.  We turned around and made a dash for it through the pouting selfie taking orange ladies back to the streets where we felt a little bit normal again.  We found a rock shop full of band T-shirts and gear and spent a good half hour calming down amongst the black t-shirts and normal people - I much prefer a goth to an orange lady!

We headed back to the Trinity Centre, thinking we would go back to the Alchemist, but that was full of orange ladies too now.  Then I remembered that the Everyman Cinema has a bar so we headed there and found a lovely quiet retreat with comfy chairs where we could feel normal, hear each other and relax.  So, we got in a bottle of white wine and relaxed, was lovely.  We then got the train back.  Spent an hour waiting in Shipley as the train in front of us had broken down but it was no bother, plenty of very drunk people on board keeping us entertained and it was warm and comfy.  We got back with no dramas - a very lovely, relaxing day.

Sunday - a bit of a quiet day.  Tom came home with Pat and Bob (he had got the bus over to Settle again to watch the snooker).  Tom and Bob then had a game of snooker here (Tom bought some snooker balls for his pool table with his birthday money) and then we went for lunch at Goat Gap.  The afternoon was spent doing homework - that took pretty much the whole afternoon.  Then tea, and snooker final until it was Tom's bed time.