Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Oh Dublin....What a town!

We went to the Guinness Storehouse(Brewery) and Temple bar today.... Need we say more?

Post Dublin update:
We don't know what to say about Dublin beside the fact that we both want to move there. Our day in Dublin started with a true Irish breakfast. We don't care what anyone says black and white pudding Rocks! We then ventured toward Trinity College and went to the Dublin Visitors Center, there we decided to take one of the city bus tours. We figured it would be better to see as much as we could and then pick and choose from there. The ticket was good for 24 hours. 1e board the bus and head up to the open 2nd story. It was a beautiful clear day so we thought what the hell! :ave we mentioned how flipping cold it is here! Melissa who has been warm everywhere was FREEZING! So can you imagine how Barry felt. Once we had made the full round we got off at our first stop, St. Patricks Cathedral, Melissa thought all the churches in Dublin were catholic but is is actually quite the opposite. Majority of them are Church of Ireland. St. Patricks was amazing there were these flags that date back beyond imagination. After exploring St. Patricks we boarded the bus and headed to the Guinness Storehouse, Trouble with a capitol T. We timed it so we would arrive at the Gravity Bar at the end of the tour and watch the sunset over Dublin. Barry pulled his own Guinness and was pronounced a master pourer, I had the masters pour mine in the Gravity Bar and ended up with a Shamrock in my head! So awesome. We ended up at a window table and made friends with our table mates. The spanglish pilot Tmemories of Spain 2001 for melissa) and his father and an American Military man and his wife on their last weekend getaway before he is reassigned to a new base. We loved our Spanish friends and drank several drinks and closed down the Gravity Bar. Off we went back to the hotel to get advice about dinner. We were given a restaurant and off we went (in the wrong direction) finally we found our pub in Temple Bar, Melissa had Irish Stew, Barry Beef and stout Cassarole, we were both surprised since we ate in aplace where we could not hear each other, the best people watching ever Tvideo and pictures to follow). Fromthere we headed to the actual Temple Bar where we got to have a real Irish sing a long. When that ended we headed across the street to listen to some more live music. These two were amazing and we stayeduntil they were done. More Guinness and a surprising meet up with our friend the Pilot from The Guinness Store House. When the music ended we tried to head over to Octagon but they closed at 11pm during the week. No U2 sightings for us. Back we went to the other bar where we got to drink yet more Guinness with the Band. Have we mentioned that we cleaned out all the Guinness in Dublin! 3:00 am and we headed back to the hotel. Our plan change our tickets so we can get another day in Dublin. The reality, great plan when your are drunk, not so much when sober!

No comments: