Tanks a Million!

Irish people really don't pronounce their h's...well at least they don't in Dublin.

I visited Dublin with Nekol on Friday and Saturday. We had an absolute blast for not only were we in Ireland but we were able to spend time with Lavinia and Jule. It was a fantastic weekend. I really don't believe any place celebrates Halloween as hardcore as America but Dublin was a good way to try and fill the gaps.

Let's start off that we flew on Aer Lingus which is a really cheap Irish airline. Fantastic. Except we had to leave at 6:50 from Heathrow which meant we had to leave super early from Lambeth to get there...which meant we couldn't take the Tube since most of them don't open up until way after the time we wanted to be at the airport. So Nekol and I had to take the night busses...awesome.

Anyways, sleep deprived, we get to the airport and hop on the plane for a VERY short trip to Ireland. The flight was maybe 60 minutes. Maybe. We land, no problem, and pay for a bus ticket to go to the City Centre of Dublin. Well, we're on the bus and people keep telling us we need "Mountjoy Square" even though the Youth Hostel Nekol and I are staying at is on "Mountjoy Street." But no no no, we need Square, not Street....Nekol and I wander around for about 30 minutes trying to find the Street only to find out we were no where near it. We were wandering around Mountjoy Square for quite sometime...oh well.

When we finally found the hostel, Nekol and I checked in, ate breakfast (because it was only 10:15) and took a slight nap before going to hang out with Jule. The weather was overcast and nasty but we at least got to walk around Trinity College to see inside the walls and just walk around Dublin for a bit. Lavinia got in super late but we still hung out and had fun. Nekol and I headed back to our Youth Hostel around two thirty in the morning to find out that the four girls in our room were already asleep...uh ok, Friday night but whatever, maybe they're saving their energy for Halloween.

Halloween day and the four of us are off and around Dublin! It was so much fun and we had a really busy day. We even went to Clontarf Road to go through a Dracula experience (haunted house) since Bram Stoker was born in Dublin. Did you know he and Oscar Wilde were besties? I sure didn't. At night, we got ready in our costumes and had a night on the town. The day was so eventful that Nekol and I could barely wake up at seven the following morning to leave. Two days in Dublin was not enough to fully appreciate it. I really enjoyed my time there and would love to go back...just note to self, everything is SO much more expensive over there!

Nekol and I got back around Sunday afternoon where we chilled for the rest of the day. Apparently, I stepped on a cobble stone wrong in Dublin and seriously bruised my right foot to the point where it hurt to walk on it for more than ten minutes. Like searing pain up my leg and into my abdomen. Me and cobblestone are sworn enemies now. Which isn't good considering Leicster Square and Picadilly Circus are pretty much made up of cobblestone.

Speaking of which, saw Avenue Q tonight at the Gielgud Theatre. It was really funny, like the first time I saw it in NY, except they changed some of the lyrics (interesting choice, not necessarily a bad one) and there was some accent slippage from American to British back to American...but still fun!

Tomorrow night they're having a lighting ceremony for the Oxford St/Regent St lights! Colin Firth and Jim Carrey are going to be there...as will I!

Well, gotta get back to homework then crawl into bed.

<3,
Dre