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This was the most relaxing weekend ever.

On Friday after class, Peter and I decided to go to the Irish Museum of Modern Art. This idea was a bit silly because I hate modern art, but I always, always want to give it another chance to see if I'll like it. But it never comes through. I still hated pretty much everything I saw at the museum. Once Peter stumbled upon the sculpture that was filled with maggots, we decided it was time to go. Thankfully it didn't cost anything to enter the museum.

There was one cool part of the museum, and that was the response room. It's basically an art room full of supplies and walls to hang things on where visitors can create art in response to what they've seen in the museum and then post it on the walls for other visitors to enjoy. Cool idea!

We went to see The Darjeeling Limited at the Irish Film Institute that afternoon. What a beautiful cinematic space! And the seats were comfortable, and the theatre so warm, it was difficult to not fall asleep. The movie was perfect for a cold and wet afternoon because the sunny color palette warmed me right up. I loved the soundtrack as well. Tickets were a good price, and they screen a wide array of indie films. Maybe if I have another rainy afternoon I will go again.

Friday evening we crashed and relaxed, and I slept in on Saturday morning. Then we went to the Temple Bar farmers market - my new favorite place to be. We bought food for supper and had lunch there and enjoyed sampling the wears of the cheesemongers, avoiding the dead rabbits dangling from the butcher stand, and gawking at the squid for sale from the fishmonger. That afternoon we went around finishing up some of our Christmas and souvenir shopping. Then it was back to Pete's apartment to cuddle up to stay warm and eat our farm market supper.

Sunday - again, slept in until a scandalously late hour. Not much exciting happened. We went to see the Christmas Festival of Lights on O'Connell St., where there was supposed to be a parade and a choir and such, but there was nothing there! We waited and waited for something to happen, but nothing did, so we finally went out to dinner at an Italian restaurant and then I went home to work on papers. Again, not very exciting, but still a lovely day to relax and recover for the next two weeks which will be pretty intense.