What We Got Up To This Month - August 2012

Sorry about the lack of posts this week I started a new job on Monday and it has taking me a few days to get used to my new routine! Any how here is what we got up to this month!

-The little bird that sings outside our bedroom every morning (he/she is gone now)

- Reading lots of good books

- Yummy fry up breakfast with my favorite mug!

- Guinness Tour!

- Getting pictures of our niece Molly!

- Night In

- Nights in with family

- Lovely breakfast cooked by the hubby!

- Playing Disney Trivia Pursuit on a rainy Sunday

- Jameson Tour!

- Dublin City Hall

- The Tall Ships in Dublin

- At The Tall Ships

- Day Out at The Tall Ships

- Eating fresh oysters

- Lots of Sunday Lunches!

 What did you get up to this month? Are you sad to see the summer over or are you looking forward to autumn? 

Our Summer To Do List - Update

I thought that since summer is drawing to a close I would update our summer to do list our list can be found here

 - Go on a tour of Guinness Store House - we done this and it was great fun see pic above!

- Go to the beach at least once this summer! - nope this hasn't happened yet not sure its going to this summer!

- For me to finally learn how to swim - haven't totally learned yet but I'm getting there!

- Vist Dublin Castle - done this it was really beautiful

- Have a picnic - nope but I have this planned for this weekend

- Use our badminton set lots!! - we have used them but not lots!

- Go on the Viking Splash Tour - we done this and the fun we had great way to see Dublin

- Have a weekend away in the country - no not yet =(

- Have afternoon tea in a posh hotel! - this was yummy and I want to do it again soon!

- Vist Kilmainham Jail - we haven't done this yet.

- To see a Dublin match in Croke Park - hoping to do this soon

- Vist The National Gallery - this was great to see all the fabulous art in Dublin

- Go on a tour of The Jameson Whiskey Distillery - this was a great tour plus free whiskey at the end!

- Have dinner at Marco Pierre White's- hoping to do this soon!

- See Phantom of the Opera in Dublin - this was great and read my review

So we are a little more than have way through our summer to do list, cant wait to finish the list! Have you do a summer to do list? Have you finished it yet?

Tourists at Home In Dublin!

Last week Paul had a week of work, sadly we were not going on any lovely holidays this year so we decided to do some tourist stuff around our hometown of Dublin. Paul had done a few of the things before but I was ashamed to say I had never done anything touristy at all around Dublin. It's funny because when you go aboard on holidays the first thing you do is all the touristy things but you don't do it as much in your own home!
So off we went to do our little list of places, we where lucky the sun shone all week and we had a great few days in Dublin. I fell in love with Dublin again and saw my home town with new eyes. I learned all kinds of stuff I didn't know, like where Oscar Wilde was born, how Irish whiskey is made different that other whiskey, and how Dublin got it's name. I saw beautiful things, like the grand canal, the many beautiful pieces of art in the national gallery, pieces of history in the national museum and the view of Dublin from Guinness's. I tasted yummy things like afternoon tea, corned beef dinner in one of the lovely pubs in Dublin, fresh fish and chips, and a lovely fresh pint of Guinness.
We didn't even manage to get to see all the places on our list, so hopefully we will get to do them again soon. Here is a few pictures of our week as tourists in our hometown sweet Dublin.




Dublin's City Hall



Inside City Hall



Paul In City Hall



Dublin's O'Connell Street




Yummy Afternoon Tea

 

Sand Statues In Dublin Castle



Statues Made Of Sand at Dublin Castle

 


Dublin Castle





Me At Jameson Whiskey

 



Drinking free whiskey at Jameson

All The Places we went to



Paul & Me on the Viking Tour



Christchurch in Dublin

 

Grand Canal

 

Old Boats at Grand Canal

 



At Guinness



Learning all about Arthur Guinness

 



Paul being his messing self!





Me enjoing my Guinness!




The view from the top of Guinness

 

Amazing view from Guinness



We really enjoyed our week of being tourists and will be doing it again soon.