Dublin in short-form

Good Eve'n all,

So heres the gist of what has happened (why I have been away for a few days).

As soon as the truck arrived with my parents and my man, I kind of was more excited about doing the fun stuff in Dublin and that involved, early starts, horse show, site seeing, come back to the hotel to shower and change, late late dinner, and all over again so safe to say I was too tired to even think about trying to write these those nights... also I'm not going to pass up falling asleep next to D after being away from home for the last 2 weeks.


So I will sum it up as best I can, deal?

It was a slow first day, to the camera shop where I bought a new camera point and shoot to help with my travels since my trusty XTi lens has broken, then up and down Grafton Street and eventually, after only an hour or 2 might I add we decided that the travels so far (London, Amsterdam and Paris already) had been enough of a whirlwind that it would be best to just relax and spend the afternoon lounging around, Wade played video games, I did homework and then joined him on a few game sessions then for late showers and eventually (around 9:30 might I add) we had dinner and met up for drinks with a family friend who actually is Irish and grew up just out of the city.

Since the night ended later then earlier as our friend said at the end of the night, we had a later start to the day. The cheesy tourist bus tour seemed to be the best route and within the hour we had hoped onto the "Hop-on Hop-off Red Bus tours" and traveled around the city, eventually getting off at the Dublin zoo! Which was a decent size and although we showed up and stayed after dinner time when the animals were all either napping or brought in back to feast it was wonderful and we got to see a lot of cute and cool animals including a baby giraffe, a snow leopard, a siberian on his way in for his feast and a pack of wolves that proved to be serving very kindly to the "pack"mentality aka-no one was touching the big hunk of cow meat leave out for dinner since the alfa-male was asleep in his cave in the back and the enclosure.
The bus took us on a nice tour home and our day was basically set, showered and got ready for the arrival of the rest of our company, which consisted of waiting in the pub overlooking the doors and watching for that taxi to arrive.

I will say one thing, when that taxi arrived its a lucky thing D was getting baggage from behind it and I couldn't really see him, I gave mum, pops and our family friend Annie a hug, waved to Don and by that point D had come from around the van and it took all of my power not to run the last 10 feet and leap into his arms, instead I think I must have put the biggest smile on my face and all I could think was how incredibly happy I was at that second... or at least that was my second thought, my first would have been I need to hug him and I did and that was that.

After a little bit of a relaxing drink and settling D into our room as well as everyone else getting unpacked, we all gathered for a pint in the pub at the hotel, once 10:30pm came rolling around we sat down for a quick bite which was great (like all the food we have encountered here in Ireland) then off into the sitting room on the far side of the main doors for a few drinks and some chatting.

D and I went to bed early for the sake that we were out of it pretty early, when Wade came stumbling into the little room at around 4am it took all my effort to even open my eyes to see it was really him before I collapsed with my arm and head back on D's chest.

The next few days were filled with wonderful meals, horse jumping, liquor and pints, a little shopping and a lot of good conversations. Our horse did wonderful and we are so very proud of him! Unfortunately we did not make it into the bigger class but that did not stop us from enjoying the festivities at the Nations Cup event which I will tell you about in the next blog, but for now I think its time this sleepy head, closed these heavy eyes and said goodnight.

Night all,

Cheers,






-Hero