Summer Festival in Bray

Saturday after the distillary we met up with some friends at D/two on Harcourt Street. Its a pretty decent club. Very very crowded..club type music. A bit of craic.
Yesterday we took the Dart down to Bray. Bray is about a 35 minute ride south of Dublin. It was the last day of their summer fest. We exprienced an Irish Carnival, complete with rides, free music, vendors and FIREWORKS!!! We got down there at about 4pm and just walked around for a bit. The festival was right on the coast...like literally on the beach...well im not really sure u would call that a beach. It was more a like a bed of rocks...it was very odd to see people laying out on top of rocks... apparently sand just isnt a prerequiste for beach here. They had some amazing vendors...ended up purchasing a couple of pretty awesome necklaces. We also managed to find a tent that had like 8000 different kinds of olives and peppers and such for snacking on. I chose 2 of the hottest peppers ever stuffed with feta cheese... pretty delicious though water was definitly necessary afterwards. Then we walked around a bit more before stopping for dinner. Nothing like sharing a apache pizza, cheese chips and garlic mushrooms with ur good friends while looking out at the ocean...it was just lovely. After dinner we hit up the rides.A ghost train, that basicly consisted of riding 2 ft in the pitch dark...a roller coaster, (while the coaster on any american standards would have seemed like it was lacking...it dawned on us that the irish prolly dont know anything about costers...they have no amusement parks or anything...poor irish folks), a fun house with 2 mirrors and finally the frisbee an odd spinning ride. After rides we headed into Porterhouse (yea theres one in Bray as well) for a bit of drink. I tried to temple brau this time...pretty darn grand...sarah tried the haus weiss which is supposedly flavored like banana and bubble gum...not my style but im sure there are people that would dig it. While drinking we caught some of Brian Kennedy...an irish singer that reminded us of Rex Manning from Empire Records...I wasnt too keen on him but the irish seemed to really enjoy him so i guess thats all thats important. And Finally then it was time for the FIREWORKS...I was a bit fearful that the irish didnt know how to hold it down with fireworks...but they did not disappoint. It was a spectacular showing... None of us could help up smile enormously...the excitement was barely containable. Some of the works were even red white and blue..the only thing missing was america the beautiful in the background. They had some works i had be never been witness too before. My favorite was the ones that shot up, and sizzled and just when u thought they were done they would explode one or 2 more times nad just lite up the entire sky over the ocean and just sizzle...o man im giddy just thinking about it. O man it was perfect. just absolutely savage. AFter the works we headed home via the last dart back to Dublin.
It just occured to me that exactly a month from today i will be back in the states... BBBOOO!!! This has been such an amazing summer, I really dont want it to end EVER!.
We had to come to work at 9am today instead of 10...it was brutal...i think im gonna nap at my desk for a bit...CHEERS!!!