It was a bank holiday weekend, so I had Monday off as well.
Friday I worked in the morning, then I relaxed for the afternoon and organized some stuff, then I went over to Kara's for dinner and some Home and Away, and spent the evening there just relaxing and talking.
Saturday Kara and I went downtown to watch the Ocean to City Race, which is a 15 mile boat race from the Ocean up the Lee to Cork City. It was really cool to see all the different boat types (most are traditional Irish boats) and unlike the rowing I did in crew, they are all fixed seat boats, so it is all in your arms, not your legs. But it was totally awesome to see these boats, from 3-15 people per boat and most of them were gorgeous! It was fun watching the finish, but totally made me miss rowing. And it didn't help that this weekend was NCAAs, either.
So after watching the rowing in the morning and it was fabulous and sunny, Kara and I decided to spend the afternoon in the park. It was awesome, laying out, reading and just basking in the sunshine. I also handed over my old keys, so I am officially out of Fern Lodge! Then we cooked dinner and watched the finale of Britain's Got Talent, which was pretty awesome. The kid who won was amazing. Watch the video and then Sleepless in Seattle was on tv, and we wanted to stay up to watch our favourite trashy show - Paradise Hotel, which wasn't on until 2am, and well we just can't stay up that late anymore, so we went to bed.
Sunday we went into town to run a few errands and it was nice and sunny, so we decided to have a picnic in the park. As soon as we spread out the blanket and put out the food, it started to rain, so we had a picnic in her sitting room on the floor and watched Pocahontas (which I still don't like). Then our favourite pub - Costigan's was having a bbq, so we headed there and also met up with Maria and her boyfriend, because she was moving back to Spain. It was a fun night at Costigan's except the 40 year olds hitting on us, gaaah. I am sooo tired of getting hit on by 40 year olds at the pubs. Seriously, leave me alone, we are not interested. So my favourite moment of the night was when the table next to us was going through their marathon packets, and I saw a bottle of lemon-lime Gatorade on the table. So I asked, did that come in the marathon bag or where did you get that? She said the marathon bag and was like do you want it? So I happily left the pub with some Gatorade, it was like Christmas. They don't have it in Ireland, only powerade.
So we left the pub around 11 and headed to our favourite chipper. And since it was a nice night, we decided to be total knackers and sit on the courthouse steps and eat them. So we were still hungry, so we went and got a pizza and also sat on the steps eating that. It was hilarious to see all the drunk people, and since it was only like 11 people were still coming in and going into the clubs, so we were in prime people watching areas.
So Monday I went and watched some of the Cork City Marathon, then helped Kara move into her house. Which means she now lives 2 minutes away from me! YAY! Then I cleaned some of the house, (I can't wait for the boys to move so I can clean the rest) and made chocolate chip cookies for the bbq. Then I went over to BelAir for the bbq2. It was fun, great convo and food, everyone loved my cookies (and I love baking), the bonfire was fun, but it started to rain.
So after I got home my roommate Brenda was finally moving in. YAY. She is really awesome (we met quickly last week when I gave her the keys) and we spent a few hours with tea and talking. So I'm excited for the summer. She is also neat and it is just the two of us in the house.
About an hour left of work for today. I'm going to the library to get writing, then Kara is coming over and we can finally watch some Grey's! The 4th season is starting tonight and I'm excited, even though I've seen the majority of the season already (up until Christmas) but it was a few months ago, so I don't really remember. So YAY!
So in other fabulous news, my girls did really well at NCAAs this weekend! They made it to the petite finals and came in 11th overall, which is awesome. They are such a young boat, so next year they should be fabulous, only 1 senior from the eight. I am so proud of them. I got the best facebook message from one of the girls in the eight,
"NCAA's was amazing, and I wanted to let you know, that in the final, I took a ten for you after the 500, for my sophomore year coxswain. You were incredible last year as a coxswain and a role model to me, and I want to say thank you so much!!!"
Seriously almost made me cry, so sweet and I love this girl. I really miss rowing. I spent some time over the weekend attached to a computer watching the live updates on the NCAA website. Looked like some fabulous rowing especially the DIII final, wow. And in DII, W.Washington won their 4th straigh DII title, some of the interviews with seniors in that boat were just cool. Their record and never loosing to a DII school in 4 years, pretty awesome. I couldn't imagine 4 years of rowing and being that successful. And the DI races looked pretty sweet too :)
boats all waiting after the finish line
a dragon boat - they are so cool!
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