From 1 to London this is.....

So I have the day off again today due to the 'snow' which before today I believed was all made up by the media....Nah only kidding but seriously we were untouched by it until last night and at that the 2cm would not stop anything here. But to start where I left off.... 23rd Nov. My week last week ended with coming 3rd in a quiz! We went along to the postgrad quiz just for fun. There were loads of old people there and lots of 16th century UK history questions so we thought we were goners but turns out they were either really, really drunk or just didn't care! We won 3 Christmas tree ornaments, crisps and an advent calendar! Munched into all of it the next day and the ornaments are up in our lab! Nice and nerdy :)
My weekend then started again with getting up at 4:45am and making my way across London only to hear that Dublin airport was closed. Did get a little worried but that all soon left when Ryanair started weighing bags and making them fit into the stupid cage thing or cardboard box! Thank god they didn't ask me to weigh mine but some poor woman had to pay £35. So I think I'll check a bag for Christmas as I think they will be even worse for it!
Moving onto Roisin's party and the likes. Got to Bruff at about 5pm and started decorating the pub with her pictures on cards which were pretty. Then home for lasagne and getting ready! Roisin looked lovely and things kicked off at 9:30pm (ish).

                            Roisin and the girls (she's second from the left in case you don't know!)
So the pub wound down at 2am I suppose or something like that and then Chuckie (the DJ) said he'd come back to the house party if we wanted. Well....that lead to music until about 5am and me getting to bed about 7am with others pulling all nighters. Up again at 10am coz one of Roisin's friends Orla has no inside voice at all, at all!! AND then we found out the sausages were gone....the inquisition started and Mum popped to the shop. One of Roisin's friends pav'd the sausages and some cheese I think. Don't know why. But Mammy sorted us out. Was wrecked all day but so worth it. Off to the airport at 4am the next day with it being -5degrees! They had to defrost our plane before we left and so we got in late and then had to deal with the tube strike but was all good to finally rest in bed and not move from the house!
That didn't happen though coz Ruth McKeon was in town! We headed to a nice Italian in Soho and I so had to go home coz I was toooo tired!

It won't let me turn it but you get the idea! She's underneath the Reagent Street lights!

 After the dinner they headed to Tiger Tiger where they dance the night away. I met up with them after work the next day.

WORK: Reds Hot 2010 Women of the Year awards. There were famous women there, Sadie Frost, Ramsey's wife, and other people I don't really know but was really really fun except the red lipstick part! But I did like the event a lot so hope to get more! It was snowing when I left but nothing major at all. We went for cocktails at B@1 in Soho. Yes I do believe I have a problem with this place....oh well! :) We went to Pizza Express then for dinner, nom noms. Ronan got a healthy, I'm-fat-so-here's-half-a-pizza-with-lettuce-in-the-middle pizza. Looked yummy though. We then set off on our merry way!
9am the next morning Gatwick was closed. After a couple panic hours, Ronan Swan jetted off from Heathrow to Cork for a really shite price. Good thing though coz it's disrupted today. The girls stayed with me and we walked around Westfield before their ordeal journey home.
Paddington-Swansea 8:20-23:20
Swansea -Fishguard 23:45-01:43
Fishguard -Rosslare 2:34-6:15
Rosslare-Wexford 7:50-8:15
Work at 12:00.
Of course there were delays. Their ferry was delayed over an hour but they are home safe and sound and I finally have some snow to look at! ttfn!