Anyways back to Dublin. I believe the worst choice we made was to fly Ryanair. The deal with Ryanair is that they make you check in on line anywhere up to 15 days to 4 hours before your flight or you have to pay 40 pounds for them to print your boarding pass. Don’t worry mom and dad, I checked in earlier in the day. But some people like Rob, Rachel and Goose did not follow these instructions, leading to heightened anxiousness and agitation. With a great deal of struggle, we boarded the plane and took an hour-long flight to Dublin.
Motivated by Forever by Chris Brown, my hostel room (Rachel, Vikki, Elizabeth, SBP, Leslie and myself), the usual boys and Katie T and H plus Rachel Brubaker headed out to a pub. We stayed there long enough for us (my hostel room) to be comfortable enough to belt out Mr. Brightside by The Killers.
The following day we had our free breakfast, which was pretty much toast and headed out on a free walking tour. We saw many Irish landmarks such as the Castle of Dublin (which was not much of a castle), the prettiest helicopter landing pad, Viking settlements and Trinity College. Lets just say, we walked all over Dublin in three hours…piece of cake. Half our group split up and went to the Guinness Factory while myself, SBP, Goose and Rachel strolled around and eventually took a much-needed nap. Later, the four of us headed to a local cheap pizza place for food and met up with the group in the lobby of our hostel. From there we headed to Temple Bar for a bar crawl with our tour guides from earlier in the day. This lead to RJ’s big night out. That’s all I have to say about that.
The following day we had a slow start. It was nice to sleep in for nice, we were on our time for once and it was a nice change of pace. Rachel, SBP, Goose and I headed out to the Guinness Factory…which took ages. We ran through it having in mind that we would be spending the majority of the day at the coast. We reached the top, received our four free pints and took photographs of all of our reactions to Guinness. SBP and I discovered we actually did not mind the taste…Rachel on the other hand is a different story. We then proceeded to steal our pint glasses as souvenirs. How do you say? We just walked out like we owned the place, no big deal. We grabbed a cab and rushed back to meet some people in the lobby to head to the coast. We took the longest train ride ever to Bray, a beautiful beach in Ireland. We took pictures in the water…Goose did NOT like that. Then, like usual we saw a mountain and thought how great it would be to climb. Every single girl was wearing flip-flops and Rachel was even wearing a pretty white dress (she managed to keep this clean the whole time). With some difficulty we were up and down within an hour. The views were gorgeous but it was no Edinburgh and we were all hungry. We proceeded to eat dinner with real Irish food and then took the train back home to catch a free Irish step dance. The best thing ever happened at the Arlington Hotel, where the dance was, I ordered a gin and tonic, paid with a 10 euro and then got 43 euros back! I would have given the bartender it back but all my friends made the argument that my laptop was stolen; therefore I should just keep it. So sorry mom and dad but I did. Throughout the dance Goose pointed out how terrible every dancer was (I mean she can do that because she is third in the nation!) so without further a due we left. We headed to the pub we were at the first night but about one or two beers in we decided to leave due to exhaustion. The following morning we woke up, hopped on a bus and boarded Ryanair and headed back “home”. Great success.
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