Another Wonderful World Cup Weekend!!!

This weekend was jam-packed with world cup matches and it was lovely.
Saturday, we hurried down to city centre to take in a few matches from Group E. First we watched Czech Republic vs. Ghana at Citi Bar on Dame Street. It was a low-key place to take in a match while eating dinner. For the US vs. Italy game we had something alittle more rowdy in mind, so we wondered over to The Globe on George Street. It was packed!! I was very impressed by the draw with Italy. Hoping the US can pull out a victory from their match with Gana and have a chance to proceed to the next round. As I understand it, if we beat Gana and the Czechs beat Italy...then we may advance. Go CZECHS!!...hahaha. After the world-cup excitement we headed to a party at a house actually inside of Phoenix Park. It was literally surrounded by the zoo....very cool. They had a bouncing castle (AKA MoonWalk) and everything. We were told that the president actually lives like 2 doors down, I feel pretty good about that.
Sunday. We once again headed down to city centre for a little World Cup madness....its too bad we dont have a TV, things would be much easier than. Anyways, we went to Porterhouse Central on Grafton Street. Porterhouse is actually really cool bc it is a microbrewery. I believe the ad says the largest genuine brewer in Ireland, i assume that doesnt include Guinness. They have some really good brews though, I reccommend the Porterhouse Red and also the Chiller. The Chiller is definitly lite, prolly the litest beer I've had since I've been here, which is definitly a good thing. Anyways the Brazil vs. Australia match was pretty exciting. I think Brazil is one of the most intense teams to watch. They also have the most amazing fans. After their victory, their was a celebration in Temple Bar Area, complete with drums, singing and dancing. Very nice to see. Then since we have some visitors we decieded to do a pubcrawl and hit up a few other new pubs. We went to O'Doules near O'Connell, ONeills on Suffolk and ending in the Czech bar at Isolde's Tower. Pretty nice little crawl. Nothing too crazy.
In other news, I have discovered that i am ethnic enigma for the Irish. Thus far I have been labeled (in alphabetical order) as Bette Midler ( ifeel thats a enthicity..hahhaa), Brazilian, Canadian, Chinese and Irish. HAHAHAHA.....its nice like. What a disappointment it must be when i begin to talk...damn American.
Alright time to get down to business.... Cheers!!!