DUB-DADDY

Clogged Artery?

Oh where to start? I had my first test today in Greek and Roman art, it went well (for all those who don'e believe that i AM actually learning here!)

Can you say YUM!

But then the more exciting stuff, we flew out of Edinburgh pretty late, and arrived in dublin with no issues. Our hostel was surprisingly nice. And we ventured for dinner, and of course ended up in this little fish and chips shop. The first thing I saw on the menu was a "jumbo beer battered burger" (it wasn't the first thing but it was defiantly the best thing) so I got that, and let me tell you i am sooo glade i did! It was everything i hoped it would be and more! Then walking along the street I saw none other then miss caroline Dittrich! WOOHOO but she was headed to bed, dont worry, we made plans for later! Then we went to The Temple Bar (to avoid confusion the place people go out is called temple bar, but this was a bar called temple bar in the temple bar area, those crazy Irish!) where there was some great live music! So we hung out there for a bit and then headed back to the hostel for a good night sleep.
FRIDAY

Caroline just cant stay away
From those jersey boys!

We took a walking tour today that was really good! He talked all about the history of Ireland and walked us pretty much all over dublin (it was 3.5 hours). Then we did our own little adventuring and found this incredible ice cream place. P.S. this blog is just a really great way of slowly explaining to you guys that you are going to have to roll me anywhere from now on, legit just wait! Then we went to the hostel and took a nice naperino to prepare our selfs for the infamous dublin night life. Then i meet up with caroline and her mom for dinner at a cute little restaurant. I had spiced beef with a dijon mustard as an appetizer, then a gaelic boxty (for those who dont know a boxty is a potato crepe like food that they fill, with in my case peppered beef and mushrooms) then for desert i had Baileys cheese cake.. yum! Dinner was nothing short of eventful! We had irish men knocking on the window yelling at us through it, there were men in the girls bathroom that bought us a bottle of wine, it was just crazy! Then Caro and I walked her mom home and headed out! It was a blast and a half! imagine the amount of fun we have on a regular basis and then add in the fact that we haven't seen each other in a long time and that we are in ireland.... WOOHOOO
SATURDAY
Today we took a bus to Galway to wander there for a bit. When we got there we were starving so we got a nice bite to eat, leah and i split a burger and a smokes salmon cream pasta dish. the burger (that we ordered medium closer to rare) came out deader then road kill, it was well done haha but still good, and the guy next to us told us they have to cook everything all the way through now. And the salmon dish was just out of this world! Then we wandered around the main town for a long time. Tonight we dressed up for Halloween, it was a hoot! the people got so into it! like everyone was in full makeup and costumes. Needless to say in my handmade candycane costume i looked a bit well, feeble.
SUNDAY
Of course when in dublin, visit the Guinness factory! so that is just what we did, it was such a good museum type thing. Then we had our pint on top of the factory. Then headed to the oldest pub in ireland, where i ate a nice beef and guinness stew, it was everything i hoped it would be! Then we went back to the hostel, had a few ciders and stayed out until we went to the airport at 1:45 in the morning to sleep there until our early flight.  Wow the Irish are fun!