After having spoken with Richard at work about him going to the Moonlight Cinema at the Botanical Gardens in the city, I realised that we’d wanted to go for a couple of years but had never really gotten around to it.

Since one of our favourite movies — Ferris Bueller’s Day Off — was playing last night, we decided to catch it. I’ve only ever seen the movie either on FTA TV or on VHS/DVD (we own the DVD, which cost Justine $55 to import from America; you can buy the movie for a tenner now). Never with a “movie” audience.

Our first seating position wasn’t too bad… until two groups of around 15 teenagers decided to sit right behind us (their feet were all over our rug). Upon looking around a bit more, it seemed we’d decided to sit in the “nosebleeds” area. We decided to move to a quieter area, which in the end was better anyway, since we got a better view, angle, and there was almost no annoying people nearby. I was actually a little surprised that there were so many young’ns at the film, since most of these kids wouldn’t have even been born when the film was released.

The weather thankfully held out, though it was a little cold at least the rain was non-existant. It was interesting to see the number of bats that took flight almost immediately after the sun went below the horizon.

The single drawback is that the toilets are miles away, and because of that I missed the great scene with the unveiling of the 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California (which was actually a modified MG).