Well, it's about 6pm here, and today was GREAT. Brett and I realized that yesterday was our 3 1/2 year anniversary, and it was great regardless of the fact that we forgot about it.
Today we finally managed to walk around in St Stephen's Green, which is a HUGE beautiful green park a few blocks from our hostel. It was sooooo nice, we just walked around, then sat on a bench in the middle in the sun for a while. After we got hungry, we decided to go get a loaf of ciabbatta bread and some goat cheese, along with groceries for dinner tonight, and eat bread and cheese in the park for lunch. Apparently this is what every other Dubliner also does on a sunny lunch break. There were sooo many people just hanging out eating their lunches - women with babies, men in business suits, old couples, you name it. After we ate our very very very good lunch, we wandered to a different part of the park where there was a military band playing - apparently every afternoon from 1-2 in the summer there are concerts in the park. It was just so nice and relaxing and there were so many people just chillin in the grass listening to the band or dancing or playing games.
After that we walked to the Jameson Distillery (after a small lost episode) and took the tour (9 Euro, and actually guided, unlike the 14 Euro bullshit of the Guinness Storehouse). I was a taste-test volunteer, and so I tasted a whole bunch of irish whiskeys plus a scotch and and an American - the American was HARSH compared to even the Scotch but definitely against the Irish. Then we walked back and made dinner and who knows (aside from my nutella crepe) is to follow?
Impressions:
why do all the women wear hot pink flats?
little boys with large rhinestone-pierced ears
kamikaze homicidal drivers
bring wine to St Stephen's Green tomorrow if this won't get us arrested by the Garda
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Well, now y'all really sound like you've stepped into the flow of a looooong vacation. The bread and cheese lunches might be reminiscent of Paris as a two year old, if you had any memory of it. Pick up a pear or apple too. And the crepes craze has me remembering strawberry crepes in Amsterdam many afternoons with my little ones; check those out when you get there. I agree with Josh about the Lilliputian nature of the photos at the church. Fun, though, espcially the one with you in front of the Hobbit entrance! If you didn'nt notice it there, check out the steps in these 400+ year old buildings; the central section of each step is usually concave from the millions of individual feet that have worn them- an awesome sense when you add your own small feet to the numbers. Ya gotta watch that midnight sunset; you'll never sleep. Sounds like you got away from the AA(American asses; watch out to not be part of the herd. Thanks for being so in touch with all of us back wherever we are. Much love to you both! Oh, since your personal bodyworkers are not stashed in your pack somewhere, there's a massage school in Dublin that might have a student clinic where your achy legs would get happier. Let me know if you want info.
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i think you should have titled this Elizabeth's Excellent Expidition! That'd be sillllllier :).
sooooooooo it sounds like you and the BG are having sooo much fuuuunnnnnn!
its a good thing you're such a good writer. so good in fact that i almost feel like im right there with you! i would love to take pictures of all the things you listed under impressions :). funny, i'd rather take pictures of little boys with large rhinestone earings than big beutiful churches :).
keep the bloggys coming. tell brett i say hey.
love love.
well I am terrible that it took me this long to finally go through and read about your European Adventures...but i am doing it. And regarding this blog entry, I must admit that I am quite jealous that you were a whiskey taste tester! I am excited to continue reading!
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