Dublino

Within twenty minutes of being in Dublin, Meghan, Cinnamon, and I walked into a pub where there was a musician was playing Miss American Pie and everyone was singing along.  Then the biggest disaster of a wedge occurred.  We later found out that it was a bachelor party.  At first, my dreams of Ireland being the greatest place on earth were shattered, but soon discovered that what we witnessed was not too far from the true Dublin. 

Where else would someone find a potato just laying in an alleyway??

Or be so confused by the locals attempts at giving directions that walking 30 minutes on the "carriageway" at 2am in the rain seems like a better idea than paying for a cab.

(tilt your head to the left)

CONESS!!

We took the commuter train to the coast, Howath Ireland.

True Irish meal: Shepard's Pie and Guinness w/ Cinnamon

Dublin Alley

Spending a long weekend in Dublin can teach you:

1. Irish people are the happiest people I have ever met.  Always laughing, and making jokes, even the train ticket seller joked around with us.

2. Dublin is the most impossible city to get around.  Streets aren't marked, maps are wrong, locals all drive therefore cannot give adequate directions for public transportation.

3. They are an hour behind Milan...something that took a whole day to figure out.  It is amazing how different your day is when you think it is an hour later than it is.

4. Just because we speak the same language does not mean there is no language barrier.  

5. that you actually know much more italian than you thought you did.  This is realized when you respond to english directions in italian by habit.  

6. Italy and Ireland might as well be on different planets they are so different.  

7. HOW MUCH YOU MISS STARBUCKS!  (or at least coffee shops of the like)

8. Someone in Ireland likes to put cones in weird places. 

next few agendas - Lizzie is coming to visit from Amsterdam on Friday.  We might go to Florence of Venice by train.  Then BEN is visiting from Tacoma the next whole week! Then we are going on a group tour of a cheese factory in Tuscany, and then MOROCCO!  jkhasdjheuajkhfbga.  That is an excited finger dance.  So many things to look forward too.