With our last week coming to a close it was time for final goodbyes. Along with some of those goodbyes were great gifts, like Dublin jumpers, friendship shamrocks and announcements of pregnancies. Three of them! We treated Sean and Celia to our favourite Korean dinner place where they told us they were expecting their own little bundle of joy! We were so excited for them! So come April 2012 their little one should make its first appearance to the world. Vinny drove me home one last time and let me know that him and his wife were expecting in March.
I also got to have a great dinner of fried chicken with Catherine and Edell at one of our favourite pop-up restaurants Cracked Bird. Yummy. It was great to get together one last time. Ruth was not able to make it since she got a job in Bristol and had started that day. Which was fantastic news!
Although it sucked working on 4 days a week from a pay standpoint, I loved working a 4 day week. One thing I will miss terribly was my nearly weekly coffee get togethers with Paul either in City Centre or out at the sea. I took it for granted that I could talk a stroll next to the sea anytime I wanted. I will also miss my chats with Paul.
With our time off, I also made Ben do all the touristy things I had left to do. We did the creepy wax museum. Good for a bit of history, but all wax museums creep me out. I keep expecting them to move and walk towards me. We also managed to do the Viking Boat tour in the pouring rain. We even wore the viking hats! We ‘ROAR’ed at the poor passerbyers, scaring a few Italian women. I felt bad about that one. The best part was when our DUKS went into the water in the Grand Canal Basin to see all the buildings there from a different point of view.
Ben has his own leaving party and lunch with his co-workers from his office. We got to pop in one last time so I could say goodbye to his team. His office was always cooler looking than mine!
I had one last meal with my Polish girls where I showed off my extensive vocabulary of a whole 8 Polish words. The word for yummy of course was the most relevant since Ania made another awesome meal! We shared a few bottles of wine with Daria, Ania and myself and had great chats late into the night.
I also hit up Cathy’s daughter’s, Lily Rose, first birthday. She is only a few weeks younger than Abe so it was great to see her and all her little one year old friends to try and gauge the size and development of the nephew I had yet to meet. I was the only one there not pregnant, with my child, or pregnant with my children. It was unlike any party I had ever been to, I was just glad there was some wine there since there was a lot of little babies!
Our final dinner was with Tori and Andrew along with his brother and a surprise visit with Tori’s friend Sue. It was a nice Cuban dinner. I know that is was not a forever goodbye since hoepfully we will see them down in LA.
I will miss my girls! I will miss my buddies! I will miss Ireland! Don’t worry, I did not see it all while I was there, so I will be back to see more. And to see some of those babies due in 2012! It may take me a while, but I will make it back.
I also got to have a great dinner of fried chicken with Catherine and Edell at one of our favourite pop-up restaurants Cracked Bird. Yummy. It was great to get together one last time. Ruth was not able to make it since she got a job in Bristol and had started that day. Which was fantastic news!
Although it sucked working on 4 days a week from a pay standpoint, I loved working a 4 day week. One thing I will miss terribly was my nearly weekly coffee get togethers with Paul either in City Centre or out at the sea. I took it for granted that I could talk a stroll next to the sea anytime I wanted. I will also miss my chats with Paul.
With our time off, I also made Ben do all the touristy things I had left to do. We did the creepy wax museum. Good for a bit of history, but all wax museums creep me out. I keep expecting them to move and walk towards me. We also managed to do the Viking Boat tour in the pouring rain. We even wore the viking hats! We ‘ROAR’ed at the poor passerbyers, scaring a few Italian women. I felt bad about that one. The best part was when our DUKS went into the water in the Grand Canal Basin to see all the buildings there from a different point of view.
Ben has his own leaving party and lunch with his co-workers from his office. We got to pop in one last time so I could say goodbye to his team. His office was always cooler looking than mine!
I had one last meal with my Polish girls where I showed off my extensive vocabulary of a whole 8 Polish words. The word for yummy of course was the most relevant since Ania made another awesome meal! We shared a few bottles of wine with Daria, Ania and myself and had great chats late into the night.
I also hit up Cathy’s daughter’s, Lily Rose, first birthday. She is only a few weeks younger than Abe so it was great to see her and all her little one year old friends to try and gauge the size and development of the nephew I had yet to meet. I was the only one there not pregnant, with my child, or pregnant with my children. It was unlike any party I had ever been to, I was just glad there was some wine there since there was a lot of little babies!
Our final dinner was with Tori and Andrew along with his brother and a surprise visit with Tori’s friend Sue. It was a nice Cuban dinner. I know that is was not a forever goodbye since hoepfully we will see them down in LA.
I will miss my girls! I will miss my buddies! I will miss Ireland! Don’t worry, I did not see it all while I was there, so I will be back to see more. And to see some of those babies due in 2012! It may take me a while, but I will make it back.
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