From getting hitched in Sin City to a red-hot Thomond Park in the space of 10 days.
James Lowe married his long-term partner Arnica Palmer in Las Vegas last week and now can't wait for another shot at Munster in Limerick tonight.
The couple got engaged during Ireland's November series and, after giving up on attempts to organise their wedding in New Zealand, they took the plunge on their own.
"It was a lot of fun, stress free," said the 29-year-old. "It was, 'Should we just go to Vegas?'. We said it a couple of times and then just booked flights.
"I told the boys I'd highly recommend that rather than inviting 200 people to a wedding.
"I was going through my guest list, ‘I don’t want half you people here!' I don’t want to be down 10 bucks a pint for someone I don’t even want to be drinking with at my own wedding!
"It was just us, it was amazing. We had a lot of fun. Honestly, it was the way to do it. I think Elvis is at every chapel in Vegas - he didn’t do ours.
"We got lovely photos, we're waiting on a few more and a video to come out soon. We're very excited and she was happy, that’s the main thing."
The newlyweds returned to Dublin on Sunday and Lowe was straight back to gym work and he looked for Leinster's playbook off Felipe Contepomi with Munster in mind.
"I had to change the lingo because we just use a different language," explained Lowe. "My head was fried the first couple of days.
"I'm ready to rumble and so is the team."
The honeymoon can wait until after Ireland's July tour to their homeland.
For now, Lowe is excited about the three week block coming up - Munster in the URC, followed by Connacht twice in the Champions Cup.
"It’s a huge time for sure, to try and pull ahead at the top of the URC and then Champions Cup," Lowe remarked.
"We all know what that’s about - knockout rugby, we need to put our best foot forward.
"After that we'll see what’s around the corner."
Asked for his favourite Thomond Park memory and Lowe deadpans: "Getting red carded and booed off, that was amazing."
The Kiwi recalls that night as "madness" and stresses that Leinster don't want a repeat of their last loss on Limerick soil in 2018.
"Part of how teams play is trying to get under our skin, force us into mistakes we wouldn’t normally make, try and rile us up," he said.
"People put that in the blueprint of trying to beat Leinster.
"If we can stick to our system and game plan, hopefully we won’t see any cards.
"What we took away is we're always trying to find the perfect balance between aggression and making sure you're sticking to the plan.
"There was my red card, Tadhg (Furlong) got done for a yellow - we almost got into a fist fight with a team that's big and wants to take you into a scrap.
"We were frustrated with ourselves more than anything, but after that we knew not to get dragged down into that fist fight.
"We knew that we got it wrong that day and we're going to get it wrong again. But that's part of professional rugby."
The atmosphere will be electric and pretty hostile towards Lowe and his team-mates. He loves that.
“Oh yeah," smiled the winger. "I’m not there to throw digs at anyone but jeepers, you either walk towards it or you stand back and watch it unfold.
"Look, we’re all professional athletes. You want to be part of the biggest days and under the brightest lights, and if you’re not here to do that, I don’t know why you’re here.
"You’re not going to win anything if you don’t like that.
"We’re ready to rumble. We understand what’s going to be needed."
In terms of where he is with his own game, Lowe expresses real contentment, explaining that where he is physically and mentally comes down to how hard he has worked off the pitch.
"A bit of a resilience was needed, tough enough conversations, looks in the mirror," he said.
"But that's all part of being professional. If you want to play in the biggest games under the brightest lights you need to make sure you get all your bits right, cross the t’s and dot the i’s. I feel like I’m on top of that.
"The problem is how long can you hold onto that form because rugby is a rollercoaster just like any other sport.
"With the amazing highs there has been, you know there is tremendous lows that come with it.
"Mate, I’m going to hold onto this as long as I can. I’m not going to stop doing all the preparation that are needed, no matter the opposition."
And he would love Leinster to win the silverware that would give Devin Toner the right kind of send off after all those years of service.
"You can have amazing seasons but at the end of it, if you don't win trophies you kind of brush over those seasons," Lowe reflected.
"You might have amazing wins away from home, you might have come from behind wins.
"But unfortunately for a team like Leinster, if you don't win trophies, you don't really remember it for the right reasons.
"And obviously Dev has announced his retirement at the end of the season, a stalwart of Irish and Leinster rugby, someone who has come through the system and represented the club with his heart on his sleeve.
"He's a great person to have in the training room, he's surprisingly funny, like he's awkward in his physical appearance, he has accepted that, he's a dork, man, that's what he is!
"He loves his cooking, he's a family man now but he's given so much to Irish rugby that he deserves a trophy to end his career on.
"He deserves more than one trophy and if we can put ourselves in position to win a couple of trophies at the end of the season, we're not just going to remember it for the trophy but for sending Dev off with what he deserves."
*The 2022 Bank of Ireland Leinster Rugby Summer Camps were officially launched at St Mary’s College RFC by James Lowe.
The summer camps are open to boys and girls aged six to 12. All of the camps are run by fully accredited IRFU coaches, while each camp runs from Monday to Friday and from 9.30am to 1pm.
The summer camps, which will take place in 29 different locations all across the province in July and August, offering children the chance to learn to play the Leinster way while having plenty of fun.
The first camps get underway in Wexford Wanderers, North Kildare, Wanderers, Seapoint and Carlingford Knights RFC on Monday, 4 July.
