Downtown winter weekend

What a wonderful weekend your Center City Correspondent had. As most weekends do, it got started with drinks and dinner at home. I make the drinks and Mrs. CCC makes the dinner. I’ve wanted to see a show that’s been playing in town, so on Saturday afternoon we took the bus, had lunch at the Oyster House, and then went to the Wilma Theater where we saw Becky Shaw. It’s a comedy of manners, 21st century style that tells the intertwined stories of 5 unlikable people. When we left the theater, snow had started falling in the twilight which gave a Rockwell feel to the center city environs.


Somebody might say that you don’t have to live in town to enjoy that type of day. That may be true, but one of the benefits of living in town is that the theaters are so close, you can take a chance on getting half-price tickets a half hour before show time which is what we did. Even if we had got shut out, we hadn’t wasted a lot of time, and there was another theater right across the street where we could have gotten in. So it was time-efficient and cost-effective, two things your Center City Correspondent loves.

After Mass on Sunday, we came home and watched a great soccer game as Manchester United ran rings around Arsenal, one of their arch-rivals, winning 3-1. We then relaxed with the Inquirer and ended the weekend with more drinks and another fine meal by Mrs. CCC. A very nice winter weekend. I wish you the same.

All for now. Enjoy your week.