Retaliation!

Hah hah hah! I'd better watch what I say or Siobhan Connell will be retaliating!!

What a WEDDING?!!

We hitched up Daidie and Olivia with great fanfare!

The bride looked elegant and graceful, the groom pulled off tails and the best man didn't lose his speech, or the rings. Okay, maybe he did lose both, but only for a few minutes! :)

We gave Karl and Siobhan Connell (not to be confused with the other non-programming Siobhans who appeared from everywhere!) a lift to Dalkey (made it in loads of time, go *my* directions!!) to a hilarious ceremony. I say hilarious for two reasons; one, whilst prompting Dave's vows, the priest said "take thee Olive". Dave wasn't trumped though and got his new bride's name correct. Hurrah! The second reason was because the second reading was from the Song of Songs and includes such lines as:

"My lover is like a gazelle
or a young stag."

"O my dove in the clefts of the rock,

in the secret recesses of the cliff,
Let me see you"

Dave's tall and everything.. but a stag? ;)

We then shot off to Rathsallagh to THE. BEST. ROOMS. EVER!! Everyone was impressed. We had all been set up with named rooms. The bathroom was bigger than a lot of hotel rooms I've stayed in. I was very put out that I couldn't immediately have a bath. Darn make-up!

The wedding itself was a huge success. Kev gave a great speech, Ned cracked us all up with a poem about Dave and Olivia's romance and we all had little lego figurines to play with. Yes, really. Every place setting had a lego figurine minding your name. Siobhan Connell was an evil queen, I was a buccaneer, Karl was a punk and Thom was an evil dude with a helmet (he always looks good in a hat :) ). 

After the meal came so much dancing. There was no band, which made it better! Everyone had included a song request with their RSVP. The DJ played through the decades, there was music for everyone, including a ton of cheesy 90's music that we'd put in the mix (Chumba Wumba!).

We finally retired about 4am, I got up at 8am and enjoyed a long hot soak in the bath. It was HUGE! I *might* have still had some Amaretto from the night before, so it was very luxurious! I followed it up by going in for a shower (as well as a rainfall shower, there were also nozzles on the wall to give you a lovely back massage).

This was followed by a large breakfast (Rathsallagh House provides a giant ham as well as their fry), chatting to everyone, including all of the Siobhans, about the previous night and my lovely bath, and a wander around the gardens.

All in all, a mighty fine wedding!

Running, weddings and moving

I went for a ferocious run today! It cleared up in the evening so I grabbed my gear and jogged over to Trinity. There I did laps around the cricket pitch with intervals mixed in. I'm sure the students thought I was great entertainment as I whizzed by only to stop a minute later wheezing like an old maid. It'll all be worth it when my speed picks up though! :)

Dave's wedding is Friday!! Aaaaaaaaaaaahhh!! It's gotten so close now! I have to try on my dress again and match shoes and a bag to it! We're going to be driving Siobhan and Karl out so I've printed all necessary directions. Let's hope that the combination of google maps and my scribbles of "turn left at a church" will get us there!

Lastly, we've finally found a new place to live! Fingers crossed yer man is legit and doesn't just steal our deposit and leave us hanging, that would suck. The rental market in Dublin is so bad that we've been looking for 4 months. This is the first place that's gotten as far as a deposit, which I must remember to give Thom..