Missy & Geoff

Ireland

Ange, Geoff and I went to Ireland Friday afternoon till Sunday night to visit Kyle (Ange's friend from Primary school and uni). As it was only a short flight (55 minutes) we were all geared up and ready to go. However I must've had a hard week as I fell asleep on the plane before it took off, woke up 55 minutes later and thought I was in Ireland. Unfortunately we hadn't left London, we were 'in a queue' to take off.........not long after that we were in the air and a packet of chocolate eclair lollies later we had landed in Ireland. We caught the bus to town and met Kyle at the 'stiffy on the liffy' (a big spike near the Liffy river, also known as the 'stillhetto in the ghetto'. We caught a cab back to Kyles and he had treated us with a couple of bottles of red, some heineken's and a delicious array of cheeses, breads and spreads. We scoffed all that over the wine and caught up on what we'd all been up to. Kyle had also bought a stuffed pork roast and the smell was beginning to make us all hungry, even though we'd totally just pigged out. Had a small nibble of the pork then headed for town and had some drinks and a boogie then the funniest taxi ride ever home. Wasn't a huge night as the three londoner's were pretty exhausted even though Kyle was ready for a huge one.

Saturday morning we got up and headed for Trinity College, browsed around then went to the World's Greatest Street Performers Festival. It was a beautiful sunny day, we watched two performances and they were just brilliant. After that we headed for the Guiness Factory which was one of my highlights, the museum was excellent. My favourite part was they had all the advertisments for Guiness since the 1950's so Geoff got extremely bored while he waited for me to watch as many as I could. It was a very big building, about 4 storeys high so took a while. We arrived at the top for our free pint of Guiness (Kyle and Ange were keen larry to finish their pint but after a few mouthfuls I wasn't so sure). However in the spirit of good things I managed to down my pint first and Geoff finished last !!!!! Finshed off the day with a traditional Irish meal at the pub, it was so incredibly yummy.

Sunday we went on a bus tour to Glendaloch and Killkenny. Killkenny was a cute little town, we browsed around the shops, didn't buy anything, the budget didn't stretch that far. We saw our first Irish castle and the grounds were massive, Geoff thought it should be made into a golf course. After a big weekend we were absolutely exhausted and fell into bed upon our arrival to London. For more pics check out www.bebo.com

posted by Melissa & Geoff @ 11:23 PM