In Ireland

It was just my Birthday weekend. It was great since I did and saw new things, had fun while doing them and spent time with people I care about. I actually got tons of present too though most are the kind where one jsut gets great memories and maybe some pictures. Like the whole trip, which was the present I gave myself.

So my sister called me up on Thursday when I was waiting around at home till I had to go catch the bus to the airport. (I was 30 minutes early to the bus stop. Well like I really did not want to miss that bus and I had nothing else to do and the weather was not that cold.) Well see on the phone my sister goes "would you like to go to a ball... Ronan Keating might be there". I was like "well this is quite surprising, let me think... ok yeah what do I need?". See there was this ball for like Ronan Keatings (the singer from Boyzone and like of that song from Notting Hill in case someone is looking confused) and his sisters like fund raising thing for breast cancer since their mom died of it like I don't know when. Well anyway. I grab my dress and shoes (yes "in case of emergency" I had taken one dress to Germany) from the closet and pack them in my bag and off I go. (Waiting for the bus way too early.)

Trip to Ireland went well. The people where kind of roudy on the plane but no biggie. My sister picked me up from the airport so I didn't even have to know where I was going. so on Friday we go out shopping for things for the ball and well I end up buying a new dress. It was great since wearing it just made me feel all the more special at the ball. My sister did my hair great and I think we both looked really great and sort of similar since both our hair was curled. Just like real sisters, which we are. We got to the ball late but we only missed the champagne and it was not such a bad thing since we didn't miss the food or the wine or really that much since at the coctail thing before the dinner we would not have known like anyone anyhow so would not have had so much mingling going on. Oh but yeah the food was good. We especially liked the "way too strong" champagne sorbet that was served before the main course. It was way strong. Like putting frozen stuff into one's mouth does not ordinarily heat up one's throat.

Oh and we were like THE party table when the dancing started. We had our own dance floor near the table and the band ended up asking us to join the real dance floor. It was great. I really liked dancing too. It's been a while again since I've had a chance to do that. (See post #80) Oh but yeah. I forgot to tell you... Sadly Ronan was not at the ball. "I'm just so disappointed since he is my idol and I just totally loooove him." But his sister did sort of touch us since she pinned these pins on us. "Oh, totally one of the most exciting moments of my life." And well this man and woman did sit in our table that had a son who like won the Popstars show in Ireland. (Like popstars is the Idols show where they make a pop band of the winners.) So yeah, loads of celebs.

Oh but it was really educational and like weird to go to a fund raising ball. Cause like they are for rich people. Like the man who bid 2200 euros for pearls and then gave them back to be auctioned off again fro another 2000 euros. I mean that's like two months salary for me at the moment. But well I guess it is going off to a good cause so respect to the people giving so much and all. My sis did end up donating a total of 50 euros that night since it was sort of expected but when you add up the fact that we got a five course dinner with wine and we'd have gotten chanpagne if we hadn't missed it that does not end up being do much really. And well it was like a really great Birthday gift too. It's not every year one gets a ball with a make-over and everything included as a present. It was really great. I felt so pretty and special.

Loads more happened. Right now I'm just skipping work early to go home. I'm too tired and have to go to the store and everything. I'll tell you more highlights from the trip later.