Salt and Groceries

The two-week complete bed rest sentence finally ended with today's checkup with my OB-GYN. My, how elated I was when I finally got to step out of the condo!

We had some good news from the checkup and ultrasound (will talk about this in another entry), and to celebrate, my husband relented on my plea to just go anywhere except home.

We agreed to go malling on one condition- I will have to use the wheelchair. For my own good and the babies', I willingly played the role of a PWD being strolled around Rockwell.

Our chosen mall seemed to be PWD-friendly and Ryan was wheeling me around with ease until we decided to make a stop at the grocery section. He encountered his first challenge: how will he maneuver the grocery push cart while wheeling me around? I found some good use for my childish instincts and gamely suggested that he continue with pushing me around (in the literal sense!) and I in turn will push the grocery push cart.

Judging from the stares we got, we must have been quite a sight with our noisy blabber and all. It was just hilarious! Definitely one for the Kodak moments category. Too bad we didn't have a camera in hand.

Then came Salt time. Yes, I'm referring to Angelina Jolie's recent action movie hit. Had no idea on how people in wheelchairs were accommodated in the movie house but we were game to try. Judging from the long lines to the ticket booth, we thought it was unlikely we'd get any decent seating. It turned out that PWDs are allotted some good seats. There is some advantage to being pushed around in a wheelchair after all!

As expected, Angelina was just brilliant for the role and the movie was great, except that I found the ending uncompelling (but how would you end it, anyway? Still have to think this over).

The lovely date was capped off with an early dinner at Bistro Miyaki. I didn't realize how tired I was until I plopped myself in bed. Ryan must have been tired, too, from all that wheeling around and my endless firing of "honey, kindly do this please and that please" for he soon dozed off.

Thank God for wonderful dates with my amazing hubby!