Dublin Debauchery

Well last night was our first night of debauchery in Europe and it was everything I had hoped it would be. On our only night in Dublin we went on a pub crawl organized by the hostel.  Pubs are awesome.  The main difference between the Dublin Pubs we went to and American bars back home was the friendly communal atmosphere.  One of the pubs we went to had a live band.  Two guys, one guy played the guitar and the other guy played a number of flute/piccolo looking instruments.  They went back and fourth between playing American songs like brown eyed girl and wagon wheel (which I was surprised to find that Europeans knew) to stereotypical sounding Irish songs.  He called one "free falling" and I thought they were going to bust out some tom petty.  We also met some German girls who were very friendly.  And it's nice to talk to foreigners because all of the awkwardness of meeting people is lost in trying to translate languages.  Anyway, we had a blast.

  Right now Thomas and I are sitting in the Dublin airport.  We had our first snafu of the trip this morning.  We couldn't find the bus stop for the bus service that was supposed to take us to the airport.  It was all good though because we hailed a cab.  We'll be in London here in the next few hours where hopefully we can catch up on sleep before we do it all again tonight.

-RO

Dublin

This morning we landed in Dublin.  Unfortunately we got close to zero sleep on the plane.  I must have a bad case of insomnia because we just got back to the hostel to nap and I just can't for some reason.  Hopefully I'll sleep hard tonight.  Anyway, we spent all morning wondering around the city.  I really like it a lot.  Very friendly people.  We started the day off with a breakfast that consisted of a parfait and a cappuccino.  It was delicious!

After wards we made our way to the Guinness brewery where we learned how to pour the perfect pint!

Anyway, I'm about to get my first shower in about three days, so I'm looking forward to that.  Afterwards were gonna grab some dinner and do a pub crawl with the hostel, so I'll check back in tomorrow when we travel to London!

-RO 

Take off

Well after spending the day in Chicago, Thomas and I are getting ready to take off for Dublin.  We're both pretty behind on sleep so hopefully we'll be able to sleep through the 8 hour flight.  We've got a big day of drinking Guinness and Jameson to rest up for tomorrow!

-RO

The night before

Friends and Family: This is where I will be logging my thoughts and experiences on my pre real world trip to Europe.  I have a lot of different emotions going on right now.  I just got engaged and graduated from college, so I am very excited from those life events.  I leave for Europe tomorrow, and I am both nervous and excited.  I will be gone for a total of thirty days, and when I get back I start work three days later.  I am also both nervous and excited to start work.  I'll do my best to write in the blog as much as I can, and I should have a lot of down time while I am moving between cities.

-RO