Notnem

With my family home this week, the apartment is absolutely full with bodies sleeping on pull down beds and mattresses on the floor. The place is a mess with half opened suitcases with all manor of things all over the place. But it has been fun having almost everybody together for the first time since early January.

On Monday night there was a family dinner in Eden in meeting house square with 12 of us for dinner. Fantastic food is all I can say but it was expensive. I walked in to get the exercise. On Wednesday night we all met up for dinner in the loacal Italian which was fun. I hadn’t been there in a long time… but the food was great.

I have no idea what is going on over the weekend, but there is talk of a bowling competition or something. As far as I know Dad leaves on Monday and the two girls are going to hang out in Dublin for a while.

With out doubt, this is the strangest film I have ever seen, and the strangest experience I have ever had in a cinema… I went with Niamh last Sunday to see it in the Dubin Cineplex or whatever it is called today.
First off, the film is brilliant despite the name (although I think they gave it a crap name on pupose). It starts off like a holiday movie, then goes to a gangster movie, a cop movie, a triller, a horrer, a comedy and then a romantic comedy. It must have been the directors pupose to try and cover as many genres as he could, and it all works superbly.

If you go to see it, wait until the credits are over… I saw Armagedon in the States, and so I had been in a cinema when people clapped, but never in Ireland. Clapping during the movie, and then afterwards when the credits were going up… never thought I would see it.