Adventures with Emily and Christina Chapter 1

Hooray! Em and Christina arrived in last friday morning at 5am in the morning. They arrived baring gifts; milk duds, twinkies, cupcakes and of course the most important reeses cups. After a few hours of chatting, the girls hit the hay and I hit the sidewalk to walk to work. After a very giddy 7.5 hours at work I skipped off early to meet the girls and help them get their barings of the city, aka, show them the pubs. We walked through temple bar and down a few of the main streets. We then stopped in to the Porterhouse for their first pint. Then then we met up with Aishling for another and then off to the IFI for dinner. After a quick stop in at the Turks Head we headed across town to meet up with Susan and Owen at a friends birthday party. As anticipated, jetlag began to set in, instead of trying to keep the girls from falling asleep in their guinness, we headed home.

Up and at em early the next morning we really set out to see the city. We started off by cruising around Christchurch, Saint Patricks, Dublin Castle, Chester Beatty Library, temple bar, Stephen's Green, ending up at Trinity College for the highlight—the Book of Kells. Which was absolutely amazing. Then off to the Northside with a quick stop at home. As the sun was heading down, we headed to Glasnevin Cemetery. After an hour walk through some of the most beautiful gravestones we headed across the street for a pint of the best guinness in town at the Gravediggers pub. Dinner time! Home for some spagetti, and then off to meet up with Martina for a "quiet pint" at the Lord Edward. We finished out "quiet pint" with a taxi ride home at 3am.

Next afternoon, up and at em' again. I told the girls that we wouldn't be doing much walking since our heads and bodies were still aching from the nite before. With blue skies above our heads we caught the DART down to Dalkey with the goal of catching a boat out to Dalkey Island, but when we got there the harbor was closed. We met a nice local man who pointed us in the direction of a few unmentionable famous people's houses, so we figured, what the hell, let's take a look. At this point our day of "not walking much" turned into a five hour walk to another village down the East Dublin coastline. The view was amazing. Halfway through our walk, i realized we were halfway to Susan's house so we might as well keep on walking since we already had plans to visit her that evening. We caught up with susan in Kiliney at the Obelisk on Kiliney hill. After the day's long walk we headed with susan to get some dinner in Dun Laoghaire at Cafe Mao. Then back to the DART and home to fall into bed.

This morning the girls were up at 4am to catch their flight to Edinburgh, and me back to work. I can't wait for them to get back on friday and we'll do it all over again!

Friends unite!