After a tiring weekend working over the August bank holiday weekend, was great to have a well earned me day. Began the day with a short visit to the Irish Sand Sculpture 2014 at Dublin Castle, with a particular highlight being the sand sculpture of Albert Einstein. After putting it off for years, decided to finally give Odessa a try for lunch. The one time I go, I had the whole restaurant to myself for the entire time, which was funny but was nice. The food was what I expected which was perfect.
While I was relaxing after my meal, ended up tweeting 37 Dawson about their red velvet cake, as I've being having dreams about it, asking them if there was any left. The conversation between me and the bar's twitter account was hilarious about the cake. As you can imagine, I gave into temptation and went to get the last slice of this mouth watering cake. It was better than I even remembered. The following day met up with +Niamh for some lunch at Bewleys Cafe, which we both agreed was nicer than we thought it would be and both loved the Guinness soda bread. After lunch we decided to enjoy the summer sun, strolling around town. I brought Niamh to the sand sculpture event in Dublin castle.
After work on the Thursday, met with Niamh for some pre theatre dinner at Herbstreet in Grand Canal dock, we both were a tad disappointed as it wasn't up to their usual standard. After the food, we strolled across to the Bord Gáis theatre for Avenue Q. From the onset, the cast had the audience in stitches with laughter. I've not laughed so much or so hard in such a long time. Can't recommend this musical highly enough. I had tweeted members of the cast and they all replied which was very nice of them.
Monday morning I kept hearing a vibrating next to me, and was wondering what was the noise, so checked my phone to discover 8 messages before 9 am. So no lie in for me, ended up in town before work for a lunch at Captain Americas followed by tour of Leinster House. On the bus journey into town, got a phone call from Bord Gáis about my enquiry for discounted tickets for, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. So ended booking 2 tickets for the Wednesday evening show for 20 euro each and no booking fee which was even better. As the tour over ran, I had to literally run to make work on time, which lucky I did. Despite the weather ruining my day off, particular highlight was when I got my haircut, I got a free beer, umbrella, beard trimming and hot refreshing face towel, I didn't wanna leave. To cheer myself up, I treated myself to a Bewley's coffee and scone, before having to rush home, to attempt to dry my uniform, which had been out on the line throughout the downpour.
After a quick change in work, met Niamh at Brasserie 66 on the Wednesday 13th for our dinner booking, which we made as we got a 25 euro voucher on Facebook, which the restaurant had running during the Garth Brooks debacle. We both jumped at the opportunity to finally try this restaurant, after hearing so much about it over the years. The food was what we both expected, after which we strolled towards to Bord Gáis theatre to see the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. We collected our tickets from box office, followed by a drink at the bar. It was surreal to finally hear all the songs from the musical on the stage. After the show we strolled across to the Marker hotel for a drink at the rooftop bar and enjoying the beautiful view of the city lit up at night, wrapped up in the complimentary blankets provided, also the ambiance around us.
To round off the week before the holidays, decided on a recommendation from Niamh, to go and see the musical, Title of Show, on in the New Theatre in Temple Bar, which had our friend +Mark T Cox playing Larry the pianist in the show. The show was pure genius, it had everyone in stitches, I'm sure I nearly wet myself with laughter. After show, went for a quick bite to eat as was starved, however I missed the bus by a minute, so had to wait for the next one 30 mins later in the cold.
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