Day 64 - Dublin to Limerick

Took us awhile to get moving this morning after the debauchery of the night before. Woke up to the smell of half eaten chicken chow-mein mixed in with the wonderful smell of Rob´s shoes and Dave (he just stunk period).

When we finally did get moving we caught a cab down to the Guiness brewery. The whole operation is actually absolutely huge and Guiness property and warehouses and stuff stretch along a huge portion of the river and through alot of the downtown area.

There was a pretty big line to get in (seeing as it was Saturday and the Guiness brewery is ´the only place worth visiting in Dublin´) and about half an hour later we got in. It wasn´t really a ´brewery tour, more like a museum. Pretty much teh same as the Heineken museum, but for Guiness. Had all the history of how Arthur Guiness switched from brewing an ale to a porter and how he roasted his hops to get the black colour of Guiness. Then there was a bunch of stuff about how Guiness used to be shipped, about how they brewed it and brew it now, and a whole floor dedicated to the famous Guiness posters and slogans. The whole museum was in the old brew house and started on the ground floor and we kept going up from floor to floor until eventually we were up on the top floor where they have a big circular bar on the roof with a 360 degree view of Dublin called the Gravity Bar. When we got up there we got a pint of Guiness (i asked if they had anything Canadian on tap and only got a stare....sense of humour = negative). They pour it in a pattern so that when they top it up there´s an outline of a shamrock in the head (foam). Pretty cool. I have to say that i´m definately more of a Guiness fan leaving Dublin than i was coming in.

Of course on the way out of the museum you have to walk through the store where i bought more stuff than i have room for in my bag. They must make sooooo much money there. After the museum we walked around for a bit and Dave took us for a walk through the Trinity College campus (where he did his med school). Pretty nice campus.

We got back to the train station in time to catch the 3:30 train to Limerick beacuse Dave had to get back for a hospital ball at 7. All we´d had to eat all day was a pint of Guiness so we grabbed a few €5 sandwiches and bottles of Coke at the station.

We got back to Limerick and cabbed back to Dave´s place by just after six. Dave hurried to get ready and Maureen came by with Dave´s tuxedo and brought me and Rob her DVD player so that we could rent some movies. We hung out with Max for awhile while he waited for Dave to get ready.

Dave has got to be the slowest person i´ve ever met (maybe even slower than Oreo). Dave, on several occasions over the course of the weekend, would say 30 minutes and be ready or show up an hour and a half later.

After they finally left, me and Rob walked to the mall and hit the Tesco (grocery store) for some dinner food adn then rented a couple movies (Ring 2 adn Soldiers and Saints). We got back to Dave´s cooked some pasta for dinner, then just watched some movies and went to bed.