All the Christmas and New Year news

Sorry its been so long since we have put up a post we have had a lot on lately. Christmas was a busy time Brad was working all the time in his new job and we had a very heavy snowfall in the week running up to Christmas. It meant we had to dig the car out on Christmas morning so we could drive to my parents.
We had a lovely Christmas day though and a nice quiet New year. We have also been very lucky with the weather since then, there has been no snow. although we have had a few frosts.
Brad and I had our second anniversary. Its amazing we cant believe its been 2 years!
There's not much other news. Im studying for an exam I'm going to sit in a few months, its to do with work. Brad is working away. We are hoping to move house soon. In a month or so we hope.

First snowfall

So sorry I haven't posted anything in ages but now I have lots to say! Brad has got a new job he starts working for Power City (kind of like the good guys) on the 6th of december. So he's very happy about that. I went to the All blacks match in the new Aviva stadium last weekend which was amazing. Ireland lost of course but the stadium is fantastic and the match was very good (at one point we were even leading the scores but that was early in the first half!). It's very cold here at the moment, as I type this it's -5 degrees! But thats an improvement on this morning when it was -7. As you can guess from the blog title we have had some snow this weekend which has destroyed my Christmas shopping! Its very pretty out but traffic will be bad going into town and its very cold so I'm spending the day inside! Ive attached some photos I took this morning just from our estate. Maybe we will even have a white Christmas.

halloween pics

Here is the pumpkin Brad carved with his piratey face! Lit and un-lit. And a picture of the Aviva stadium just before the Ireland v All Blacks rugby match last weekend.

Getting ready for Halloween

So at the moment we are getting ready for Halloween which is on Sunday. We are having a bit of a party on Saturday. It will be at our appartment and we are going to watch a few Halloween movies! Brad is carving a pumpkin again this year as he did the year we had the party in Australia. So we will have to post photos on the blog. There is no other news really. Everything is quiet here and we haven't been up to much. The weather is turning much colder its much more like winter.

Heritage park

Well a few weeks ago Brad and I were off and we took a trip to the heritage park in county Wexford. It was a nice day and the park is organised so that as you walk around the park you pass through different periods of early irish history. You walk from early Irish settlements, through the bronze age settlements on to early irish cristain settlements. We took some photos which I'll post. We also went out last weekend for my friend Niamh's 30th birthday. It was a Karaoke night with dinner and cocktails after! Brad joined us later in the night as he was working. We have no other news though. My book club is reading Rebecca and Brad is enjoying the course he's doing on a monday night.

More London

Just a few more photos to see. Oh and take note of the name of the proprietor of the pub!!! The Mc Mullens are everywhere!!

Had a great time in London. Its a real tourist's city with so much to see and do and so much history while also being very modern in parts. The London dungeons were probably my favourite part of the trip, but I was continually picked out from the crowd to be demonstrated on for the various tortures. Only thing that was a pitty was the pubs all closing early at 11pm, but we were there during the week, so im sure they open later on the weekends. New York might still be my favourite city though, just by a little bit.
We also happened to be doing the tour bus in London on the same day of the anniversary of the London Blitz so we got to see a WW2 lancaster bomber and a Spitfire fly over the city.

London yeah!

Hello all! Well we've been home from london for a week now and we had a great time! We saw a lot of sights and met a few friends! Brad and I went with Leanne and Emer to London from monday to friday and we stayed near Victoria train station which is near Buckingham palace and Westminster. We did a tour bus and a boat trip, we saw a show and had dinner in brick lane (all indian curry houses) and we shopped on oxford street. We had a very busy few days running from one sight to the next but we really enjoyed ourselves. We saw Westminster abbey which was wonderful inside with all the writers and poets tombs as well as the dead monarchs! Tower of London was equally as interesting and I loooved the crown jewels! Brad knows what I want for Christmas!
We had a quick visit to the British museum to the egyptology wing which I enjoyed. We had a great time at the London dungeon. This is a place where actors are dressed up to scare you with stories as you walk around through some of londons historical past. They demonstrated soem of the torture instruments on Brad which was funny and then he got put in the dock and sentenced by a judge which was even funnier! It was a good laugh. We met my frind Steven over there by accident and Emers friend Mark on purpose (he lives there!). We will rock you was a good show all music from Queen so we were all singing along. We did lots of other things including visiting Kensington palace and gardens and Harrods. All in all it was a fantastic holiday.