Do you believe in magic?

It all started out so well!

What was planned as a very low-key, very well behaved Friday evening went ever so slightly awry tonight.

            Sita, the gorgeous Indian Princess was back in town this week, and as Friday was the only night that we were all free, we arranged to meet for a very quick, very early dinner in the courtyard of Raffles Hotel before Sita went out to partake in some heavy drinking and Nick and I slinked off home for tea and a lot of sleep. We’re just living the dream out here!

            We arranged to meet at 6:30, and so we all made our way to the courtyard with the best of intentions and in good time as soon as we finished work. That is where the plan started to go a little squiffy.

            To start with, we hadn’t seen Sita since we got engaged, so prossecco was deemed essential for celebrating, so we went ahead with a cheeky glass each just to mark the occasion. Then, as we were taking a look through the menu to work out what sort of salads to buy, a lady came up to our table and offered us free tickets to the big magic show that was taking place in the Raffles Hotel Theatre that night.

Freebies and bubbles, don't mind if I do!

Joe Labero has been hosting a magic night at Raffles for the past six months, ending in mid-Feb, and Nick and I had actually looked at the cost of tickets to see if it would be worth going along. With the cheapest tickets in the $150 range, we decided that it was absolutely not necessary, and we were quite happy to miss the event, until the freebies were on offer. I just can't say not to a freebie! 

            We had twenty minutes to finish up our drinks and make our way into the theatre, so seeing as it was still fairly early in the evening we thought it was worth popping in and then if we found it really wasn’t worth watching to the end, we could always sneak out a little bit early…how wrong we were!

            The theatre was empty – there were maybe 50 people in there, maximum, and rather than tucking us in at the back of the theatre they sat us up in the third row from the front, so we were clearly visible from the stage meaning that we would really struggle to make a subtle exit.

Sita getting involved in the action

Thankfully, the show was great fun and we didn’t feel the need to leg it half way through after all! Some of the tricks were a little bit basic, and perhaps just because we were sat so close to the front there were a couple of details that it would definitely be better if we couldn’t see them.

            Regardless, it turned out to be a great night, and one that saw myself, Nick and Sita all being called up onto the stage to participate. I wasn’t really very enthusiastic about having to join in initially, but it was great fun in the end, and we were lucky enough to be involved in some of the best tricks of the night!

Me, hoping that my phone made it through this trick in one piece! 

I am not sure if I would have been really pleased with the night out if we had spent $150 a head on it, but as a free night of entertainment it was a bit of a classic!