Day 165
We've got 2 days to fill in Colombo before Ben's Dad and Angela turn up for our 10 day tour but the weather isn't looking great so it looks like we are going to be a bit limited. We've heard of a nice shop we want to check out called Barefoot so we start walking down there to check it out. Breakfast first though and we stop off at the restaurant we ate at last night for some more of their roti but instead of it being oh my hot but I can handle its oh my god bastard hot I haven't got a mouth left. I unsurprisingly don't finish it.
I am in a foul mood today and breakfast doesn't help improve it and then we get lost, not good. I get grumpy, Ben kicks a coconut and I shout. Then the shop appears and apologise within 2 minutes "Sorry for what I said when I was hungry" The shop is so cool and I could buy the whole lot, it's a mixture of an art gallery and a local handicraft and book shop. I settle for a more in our price range basket and get a Roald Dahl book and 2 cool postcards to frame once we are home. There is also a delicious cafe here and the food looks so good, we break our budget and I get some houmous and pita, nom.
There's another shop we want to check out called Push which has been set up by local skaters and has some really cool designs so we grab a tuk tuk and Ben gets some cool tees which he needs as his bag was starting to look a little bedraggled. It's a cool place to hang out and it has a puppy so I'm happy to be there for a while. The weather starts to turn once we leave the shop so instead of getting damp exploring we head back.
Day 166
We are having a lazy day today as we don't really know what else to do to fill our time in Colombo. It's a cool city and its worth staying more than a few hours but it's not got enough to fill 2 days. The weather has dramatically improved though so we decide after grabbing a breakfast that we will go to see the promenade. Finding food that isn't the restaurant we've been going to every day turns out to be a little hard. Our plan is to explore the restaurants in the mall opposite us but after a creepy explore turns out its empty and we just walk round a building sight, odd.
We finally make our way out of the dusty maze when we spot a cinema just across the road and its showing Jurassic World. Well it would be rude not too, we book tickets for the first showing of the day which is 4.30 and go off in search of norms. Just next to the cinema is a bakery so our good luck continues and I fill my face with curry filled pastry that doesn't burn off my taste buds, woohoo.
After our tummies are full, we carry on down the road to the Galle a Face promanade which is right next to the snazzy hotel that Lee and Angela are staying at, very nice. A guy stops is on the way to complement us on our tattoos which is always nice. There is a little beach in front of the prom which is too rough to go on but we nab a bench and watch the cocky crows trying to eat a whole slice of bread. We take a little walk down the prom after a while but it's a bit smelly so we head back after about half hour and spend the afternoon blogging before a cheeky Burger King just before the film, nom.
This cinema is awesome, we have to wait for an age before hand as there's only one screen and the first film over runs (how that is possible I don't know) and its tiny! There isn't any proper aisles and we have to clamber over seats to find ours and then theirs the screen, I think I've seen bigger ones in people's houses but it's actually just right, we put our 3D glasses on and get ready to be wowed and I so am!! It's amazing and made all the better by the fact half way through we have an intermission for snacks and the baby in front of us makes Dinosaur noises most of the way through the film. I would recommend the film (again, I think I've loved all the films we've seen here :D)
I'm very buzzed after the film and natter on about it for hours, in which time Ben grabs a curry and rice that's big enough to feed a family of four and we head back to the hostel to nom and get ready for having to speak to other human tomorrow.
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