Climbing Bray Head

For the first time I'm updating in a timely fashion!

This afternoon after I got off the phone with my parents (love you guys!!) Kristyn and I visited Bray, a decent-sized town south of Dalkey. Bray is known for its beaches and quite a large hill that is popular to hike, Bray Head. Our first stop because it was such a gorgeous day was the beach. It was extremely rocky and cold, but beautiful. Strangely enough there were two people swimming hardcore against the waves. We cheered them on from the beach because wetsuits or not, that water is just a few degrees above freezing and it takes a precise balance of courage and stupidity to swim in. After about a half hour Andrew met up with us and we started towards Bray Head. At first it seemed really easy because there was a large paved path, but it quickly changed into a steep, narrow muddy path. It took about 30 minutes to hike up, and it was more than worth it. It was sunny and warm, the grass was soft, and the view was just spectacular. I'll have pictures up probably tomorrow. I was really happy that I was able to go on that walk, especially on a fantastic day like this.
After dinner I went to see Superbad at the Irish Multiplex Cinema in Dun Laoghaire. It was €6 for students, which isn't too horrible. Not as bad as it could be, I guess. The movie was really funny, but strange. I don't think it's the kind of comedy for everyone, but I had a few good chuckles throughout it. Just like in the States, before the movie they played all of these ads, but they were either crazy off the wall ads or really intense. For instance, the first ad started out with this girl kissing her boyfriend on the sidewalk and then a car comes flying out of nowhere and kills him, paralyzes her, there's blood everywhere. It skipped between a trial and an operating room, which was fairly graphic for a pre-film ad. It ended up being an anti-speeding ad. Crazy! Then there were all these ads that just didn't fit with the product that they were selling, like a bunch of people dancing around in teddy bear heads for an energy drink. Where the correlation came from, I do not know. It was definately an experience.
After the film got out we were afraid of missing the last Dart home so we decided to run for it and lo and behold we had 20 minutes to wait, not to mention there was another train in 35 minutes. Oh well. I guess had we not run, Murphy's Law would have ensured that we missed it. So now I'm pretty exhausted and will probably sleep most of Sunday away. Like I mentioned earlier, I'll try to post some of my pictures from my hike tomorrow for those of you that read it regularly. Miss you all!!!

Cheers,
Katelyn