We headed out to Limerick, Ireland for Christie's 50th birthday this weekend. There were about 15 of us, a good show indeed! We flew out Friday afternoon on Ryan Air. It's one of the low cost airlines, and they don't assign seating, which means when they board the plane it is a mad dash to grab a good seat. Scott and I "splurged" and paid the extra 2 pounds each to get on the plane first. This worked out great as we got front row seats with tonnes of leg room! We also got to rub that in to the rest of the group who had made fun of us for paying the extra! Good start to the weekend!
We arrived at Shannon airport, dropped our bags in the hotel and headed to the bar in the hotel to start the weekend off right. After a few rounds we went to Moll Darby's for a fantastic dinner. http://www.molldarbys.com/ Food was excellent, company evn better.
Saturday dawned a foggy morning and we started off with a good ole Irish Breakfast. Unfortunately Ken and John had a few run ins with the restaurant staff due to past date yogurt amoung other things.
Limerick's main street O'Connell street is a large shopping area, so it was nice and busy Saturday morning. We wandered around taking pics and had lunch with Ken and John at a nice cafe. After lunch we toured King John's castle (An English castle in Ireland, quel horreur!) and spent the rest of the afternoon watching England kick Australia's ass in the World Rugby Tournament...much to the Irish fans dismay.
After a few more pints at the hotels bar we headed to Dolan's Pub http://www.dolanspub.com/ for dinner, drinking and the birthday celebration! Delicious food again, who knew the Irish could cook??? They had live Irish music, which was fantastic. In the spirit of Limerick, Scott and I wrote Chrisie a Limerick for her birthday:
We headed to Limerick in the cold
We drank whenever we were told
Christie turned 50
We said she was nifty
But really we thought she was quite old.
Hahahahaha...ok, we won't win any writing competitions but we had a great time. Here are some pics from our virgin voyage to the Emerald Isle:
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