whatever you do in life will be insignificant

saturday
after our late night at the pub, we all enjoyed a lie in and lazy saturday morning. by 10.30am, the six of us were eating elisa's french toast casserole and watching an episode of 'entourage'. we had decided to head into cork for the day and by 12.30pm the six of us plus two other classmates were divided up into two cars and heading into the city. charlotte, emily, rose and phoenix stopped in cobh on the way into cork while elisa, connie, minnie and i headed straight in. we visited the english market, enjoying the sausage sandwiches at o'flynn's and the delicious sides at the mediterranean stall. elisa and i could not sample enough of the glorious green dip made of ewe's milk cheese, basil, garlic and olive oil. and the sample of parmesan cheese and figs was divine.

we wandered a bit down patrick street before heading to the 'liberty grill' for lunch. i had suggested it but didn't want to talk it up too much and have the girls be disappointed. fortunately, everyone loved what they ordered as well as the restaurant itself. completely satisfied, we paid the bill and headed to marks & spencers to do a quick grocery shop before meeting up with charlotte, rose, emily and phoenix at the hot chocolate shop. we ran into phoenix on our way to the hot chocolate shop and found out that the girls were shopping. we opted to head back to school as the thought of naps sounded wonderful.

one of our classmates was celebrating her birthday saturday evening and had organized an outing into cork to go dancing. minnie, charlotte and emily were looking forward to a night out while elisa, connie and i decided to spend the evening at the cinema instead. we saw 'no strings attached' which was entertaining but not something i would see again or recommend. our evening ended around midnight and the dancing crew got in just before 4am.

sunday
i woke sunday morning to sunshine streaming into our room. after a quick breakfast, i was dressed and off for a long walk. i walked part of the loop, heading down a few side roads just to see some of the spring lambs. the view was so incredible that i had to stop several times just to soak it up and commit it to my memory. i made my way back to the school a little over an hour later and found my cottagemates up and discussing the previous evening. i laughed as they filled me in on all the drama and funny events from their night out.

elisa got back from church shortly after two and the six of us plus rose and nicole piled into two cars and headed to lismore for afternoon lunch at o'brien's chop house. while the drive made me carsick, the views were just incredible. we arrived in lismore around half three, parked and walked two blocks to the restaurant. justin greeted us as we entered the chop house and showed us to our table. we had a lovely lunch that included a starter and main and for some, dessert. some of the girls were looking forward to the traditional roast beef but because it had sold completely out, they enjoyed steaks instead. connie and i had the pollock and garlic mash which was quite nice.

we left lismore and got back to ballymaloe shortly before 7pm. i did a load of laundry and my order of work for monday while watching 'remember me'.