AWESOME.

I got up today and ate LOTS of Nutella.

Then Jenni and I went to the National Gallery of Art which is about a 2 minutes walk from my apartment. It was so much fun... the art was beautiful. I saw a collection of miniatures illustrations done for a Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales as well as loads of Irish painters from the 18th and 18th century.

After about 2 hours we head back home and made lunch (which included me eating more nutella). Then headed to Devising class. Then rushed from Devising to the show, 'La Clique' which was a 20 minutes run-walk from Gaiety.

The show... was INCREDIBLE. Oh my goodness. Let me just take a moment.

Fun Fact: I have been wasting my time dating actors and singers. I should pursue circus performers.

The show began with a large wonderful black man in drag singing Nessun Dorma.

The first act was two (extremely attractive) 'English' men (The English Gents... look them up.) in pinstripe suits who performed so FANTASTIC feats of acrobatics. I mean, this guy stood on his partner's head. Literally. Then switched and was on one had. Balanced on his partners head. Oh right... then they preceded to strip down to their Irish flag underwear... and do more crazy stuff. I have never seen muscles like that in my life.

Fun Fact: It was awesome.

The second act was a fabulous man named Mario, Queen of the Circus. The fun thing was... he performed juggling to a Queen song. Hence the name.

Then the was a man dressed as Betty Doll doing a hilarious Silks routine.

Then there was the beautiful awesome girl who performed hula hoop tricks.

Captain Frodo, the clutzy, hilarious contortionist who threw confetti for emphasis. He was a crowd favorite.

Then, was Bathtub guy. At least that is how we describe him. He was basically was in the bathtub... then he did this intense rope routine thingy. I can't really describe it but it was sweet.

Fun fact: Its called being an 'aerialist'. Good to know.

Intermission. And yes... I am going to describe ever act and YOU WILL ENJOY EVERY MINUTE OF IT.

Ok.

Nessun Dorma came back and sang "Circle of Life/Umbrella" wearing a zebra print jump suit, a giant hot pink fro and matching leg warmers.

My old pal, Mario road a unicycle to Queen's "Bicycle Race" and juggled a bit more. I love him and his fake (painted) mustache.

Then this BEAUTIFUL (not using that word lightly) young woman performed the most haunting trapeze routine. Her feet were bleeding by the end... my friend Joey( who had worked with Circus people) told me that trapeze is all about the pain and that it never stops hurting. Made the whole thing more haunting and sad. Ah!

Then my adorable zebra man came back and sang some Radiohead. Made me think fondly of Rockband.

Then. Oh.My.Goodness. Came the The Skating Aratas. A moment of silence please. They are 7th generation circus performers. Yah. They... well basically I am not sure I can explain what the heck they did on that stage... there was some crazy stuff happening. It was like being ON the skating rink during an ice skating routine but 10 times more intense. I was literally about 8 feet from a woman being spun around at HIGH speeds holding on with her ankles around her partners neck. Then they did this thing wear she had the rope thing around her neck and was like spinning herself ... wait for it... BY HER FLIPPIN' NECK. Youtube that stuff, NOW. OH.MY.GOSH. It was act was extremely sexy actually which was a little weird when I found out they were brother and sister. But I digress.

Then we crowd surfed Mario to "We are the Champions". A whole new meaning to crowd interaction.

Captain Frodo came back and did some more double jointed awesomeness...

They all came back and the crowd was on their feet screaming and yelling and clapping like mad. It was insane. I haven't been that excited by a show is FOREVER. I mean I was literally beside myself. BLAH!

I came home feeling quite un-extraordinary and decided to eat more Nutella. I bought the jar Saturday... its basically gone. Yep.

The show was... AWESOME. Today was AWESOME. Dublin is AWESOME.