Sunday in Dublin

It's nice to leave Athlone everywhile and get back to the "big shmoke". Here's what I did last Sunday.

My sister and I attended the "Call A Spade A Spade" demonstration. This was to show solidarity with Rory O'Neill and to oppose homophobia.

We estimated the crowd to be a few hundred but there were reports online of over a thousand. It it had been a 'pro-life' rally the estimates would probably have been in the tens of thousands, lol!

 Senator Norris gave a really motivational speech which got the crowd whooping and cheering. He thoroughly is an amazing public speaker.

We went to Synnotts for one drink and to watch the rugby. I had a vodka with diet coke but Enid mixed her vodka with tonic water because she's off artificial sweeteners. I couldn't do that!!

We left Synnotts pretty quickly because the vibe wasn't great and our view wasn't good either.

We took a quick trip to Starbucks, before which Enid was panicking because she had no cream to put in her coffee. Luckily I remembered that I had read online about people ordering butter in Starbucks to bulletproof their coffee. We got two pats of butter each, it was lovely and creamy :)

Enid the imposter used my name to order the coffees. She's just jealous ;)

I then popped home for a bit to see my parents. I randomly decided to ask my dad for a lend of a ukulele so I one here in Athlone with me. I'm already addicted, it's so easy to learn to play and sounds so cute! It's ruingng my nails though- I always need my nails to be perfectly manicured!!

Truth, Beauty, Freedom, Love,

Kitty.

Rockin' Joes, Galway

Quinnsy and I made a daytrip to Galway last weekend to get some makeup in Brown Thomas (Nowhere to buy good makeup in Athlone at all!). We decided to get some lunch in this diner that we jokingly called 'Fake Eddie Rocket's...

It was only when we arrived directly to the front door that we realised it was an Eddie Rockets! 

A temporary (I hope!) sign had been erected declaring the restaurant to be called 'Rockin' Joes'. However, it was hard to miss the typical red decor or our favorite Eddie's.

The jukeboxes had been gutted but they were definitely the same ones as used in Eddie Rockets, as was the red tumblers that our drinks were served in. 

Luckily none of the food had changed either: The cajun sauce on the buffalo wings was just as tasty as I was expecting!

This is our Rockin' Joes receipt listing off all the locations of Eddie Rockets restaurants! 

All mention of Eddie was gone, there were very little signs on the walls for example- But the characteristic bar and stools is unmistakeable!

Some clever re-use of already-present information... Lol!

On our way out we asked the waiter what was going on. He told us that they had changed three weeks previously- All the Eddie Rockets in Munster and Connaught are now Rocking Joes because they are all owned by the same business man. After some research on the internet there seems to be two possible reasons for this change: 

1. The owner decided to break out of the franchise and go alone
2. Eddie Rockets did not renew the franchise

Either could be plausible- I don't care as long as my food still tastes great!

Truth, Beauty, Freedom, Love... Binary Pixie x