It’s been a while since my last written post. Many little things have happened since then. Our trip to Canada was very busy – delayed luggage, trip to Edmonton, citizenship exam, meeting friends and family, shopping, fighting with jet lag, etc. Back to Ireland, back to work. Darse at the office, me dealing with a thousand little things like finding a car to buy, dealing with banking, shopping, and other appointments, registering for the Open University, gardening, writing, trying every day to paint… Oh, so boring for you to read!
Holidays passed quietly. We had a long stroll the Sunday before St. Patrick’s Day in Bray. This is where we took the pictures from my previous entry. At that time there was a “fun fair” on the esplanade. Darse was amazed by the fact that all of the swinging/shaking/spinning rides were unfolded from semi truck trailers. It made sense because it was a traveling fair. [It makes those rickety rides extra scary -- there's actual risk involved! -drb] The cleverness of the folding was fun to study but the final result was a tacky spin machine to make people sick.
I hope you enjoyed the six-eyed alien from my pictures. Actually Darse was wearing my sun shades under his glasses because of a headache induced by the bright sunlight. Hopefully he won’t have this problem anymore when he gets his new glasses that darken in the sunlight.
We went to a games party (video games, Chinese poker, and trivia) before Easter where, most likely, we beat a world record. We had the longest Trivia Pursuit game of all time: about 5 hours or more. And then we had more trivia at Rockfield Pub this week with Darse’s colleagues where we didn’t finish last. Yay! (Pub quizzes have lots of questions about football, UK and Ireland whatnot).
The weekend forecast is rainy and windy so again, it won’t be perfect for strolling or pictures. There is always stuff to do at home too.
Holidays passed quietly. We had a long stroll the Sunday before St. Patrick’s Day in Bray. This is where we took the pictures from my previous entry. At that time there was a “fun fair” on the esplanade. Darse was amazed by the fact that all of the swinging/shaking/spinning rides were unfolded from semi truck trailers. It made sense because it was a traveling fair. [It makes those rickety rides extra scary -- there's actual risk involved! -drb] The cleverness of the folding was fun to study but the final result was a tacky spin machine to make people sick.
I hope you enjoyed the six-eyed alien from my pictures. Actually Darse was wearing my sun shades under his glasses because of a headache induced by the bright sunlight. Hopefully he won’t have this problem anymore when he gets his new glasses that darken in the sunlight.
We went to a games party (video games, Chinese poker, and trivia) before Easter where, most likely, we beat a world record. We had the longest Trivia Pursuit game of all time: about 5 hours or more. And then we had more trivia at Rockfield Pub this week with Darse’s colleagues where we didn’t finish last. Yay! (Pub quizzes have lots of questions about football, UK and Ireland whatnot).
The weekend forecast is rainy and windy so again, it won’t be perfect for strolling or pictures. There is always stuff to do at home too.
Maybe we'll go to see some cars. One funny thing about looking for a car is the inventiveness of sellers of pink Toyotas. There are dozens for sale, and they are rarely defined as pink in the ads. They are "purple", "blue" (?), "metallic purple" or "red". They stretch the definition of pink to "twilight rose" and "metallic salmon". Actually, they all look like this:
[If we ever did buy one of these, it'd be from the guy who called it "PINK!". -drb]
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