Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Sunny Dooblin

I've been in Dublin since Monday morning at 8:15am Dublin time (12:15am California time) and the trip has been a blast so far. I have consumed a fair amount of Guinness and spent a lot of time with my coworkers which as been good. We did some team building today and it turns out that I am basically an expert with a bow and arrow. I have progressed quite quickly and will soon be turning my energy towards the most fierce of prey - man. Anyway, Dublin is a cool town. It feels quite old in a good way. I am tacking a day on at the end to try to do something fun independently but that may just consist of wandering around and buying leprechaun t-shirts or something. I took a few photos today and will try to upload some of them soon although I realized that I don't have the proper cords with me to actually download them from my camera - doh.
In other news, Seth and his wife Jyothi had their baby - congrats! They decided against the name I suggested - Matilda - and went with Kaia. I argued at first but the name has grown on me, mainly because Seth told me that it means something awesome in Jamaican.
It was Jason's birthday on Sunday, happy birthday big man.

4 comments:

Jason said...

Thanks kiddo...

Jason said...

So when we were in IRE we stayed in Shankill...nice little B&B...we took that DART down to Bray and a bus to some waterfalls...as best as I can remember they were near Enniskerry...made for a nice day...there were some nice little pubs near the water in Bray if I remember right...

Matthew Lewis said...

Yeah, you basically just said a bunch of names of things I don't understand. I need to get a map or something if I am actually going to venture out from my hotel without a local in tow. I do have tomorrow (Saturday) to get out and do stuff. I was thinking about riding the DART out to the end of the track and hopping off to take some photos somewhere and spending some time tooling around the Dublin city center.

robert said...

I always wanted to eat a gorgonzola sandwich at Davy Byrne's Pub. Of course, they don't serve those things any more, and I'd have to go off the wagon to drink some red wine with it, but for a "Bloomsday" celebratory event, it seemed like a great moment. Even though Davy Byrne's still exists, I'm guessing it isn't all that interesting at this point in time, and gorgonzola actually tastes pretty bad. Maybe a cheddar cheese sandwich with a root beer. But then it's starting to sound a little less classic. On the other hand, how many times do you get to eat food at a place that's a part of literary history, and also apparently has decent eats? But wait! You live in S.F. Never mind.