Banana Cafe

On Christmas Day we joined our friends for a beautiful meal in Banana Cafe

The ambiance and setting was fabulous - we sat out on roof terrace.  The company was super and the food was gorgeous along with some nice wine.  I started with lobster ravioli which were amazing.  I then had the ribeye for main.  I didn't go for dessert as there was no key lime pie on a stick! ;-)

All in all a really brilliant evening and loved meeting up with our friends - Hello P&A if you are reading!

Highlight of the night was meeting Lady Gaga!!!!

It's a long long way to......

Wow what a trip!
Left our house at 5am to catch the coach to Dublin Airport.  Boarded our flight to Atlanta at 8.30am and then arrived there at about midday US time.  Caught our connection to Fort Lauderdale and then arrived near 5pm.  Picked up our rental car and were on the road by 6pm. 
The drive down the Florida Keys were tough, we were very tired.  We stopped off in Key Largo to pick up supplies and I think it was about 9pm (2am Irish time!) when we finally arrived in Key West.

We were in bed within 15 mins.  It's now just 6am and I am awake.  Jetlag is a killer but I will try go back and sleep a bit more.
Happy Christmas to all my readers!!!

Leaving on a jet plane

Just finishing up our packing for our Christmas trip to Key West, Florida.

I dropped our dog off to my parents and changed some euros into dollars earlier on so looks like we are all set to go!

Elf

Check out this elf that hangs at the top of my tree. I love him, he is so weird looking. He has a little ruler, scissors and hammer tucked in to his belt.

Ciaran is freaked out by him, he can't stand to look at him!

Winner, Winner - Turkey Dinner!!

Ciaran and I have a running joke every Christmas where I ask him is he going to win us a Turkey every time he heads off to any squash events in December.

Well guess what!  He won one this year.  

As he headed off to the "Turkey Blitz" I called out "Don't come home without a turkey".  Well for the first time in about 15 years he actually won a turkey!  

Of course as we go away for Christmas we have no need for a Turkey so I gave the voucher to my Mother - she was delighted, I think it nearly made her Christmas!  

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Basket Brigade

Today my sister and I are involved with "Basket Brigade" which aims to make up 120 hampers for needy people.  I collected items for the hampers from my colleagues in work and they were so generous.
The event is taking place in the Clarion hotel in Dublin City (they are probably letting us use the room for free or at a reduced cost).