Bewleys Hotel Newlands Cross Dublin

... dirty clothes keeping our eyes peeled as we made our way to the city centre. We figured finding a self serve laundry place would be no problem. We couldn`t find anything but a cleaners that was willing to wash what was less than 2 full loads of laundry for the low low price of only..... drumroll..... €18! No chance in hell I`m paying over $30 CDN for clean shorts. We took a city bus back to the hotel and slept. We had to be up at 3:45AM for the flight.

... closest stop to get off and said we&#8217;d have about a five-minute walk. I was very relieved that the guys decided to come with me to the hostel, as the sun still hadn&#8217;t come up, I had no idea how to navigate the city and there wasn&#8217;t a soul on the streets other than an occasional taxi. If it had been 6:30 a.m. in DC, there would have been at least a decent number of professionals walking to work. It was clear the Irish were a bit different.<br><br>Noticing I was ...

... lean close to Keith and breath with him, to get to sleep, didn't work...... <br><br>Got off the plane and made it through customs, no problems. I told the gaurd that Rachael was my bodygaurd. He asked her if I was a trouble maker, she laughed in her Rachael way and walked briskly away. At his point we need to find a certain bus to make into Dublin city center. After walking around, practically the entire airport we found it. <br><br>Double decker buses ...

... br><br>I went back to pick up Justin, and we went out to eat at this really good vegetarian restaurant. They even had gluten-free bread and brownies and seaweed and sprouted bean salads. I was very impressed and ate like a king. We walked back to the hotel and relaxed in our room the rest of the night. We were hoping another Lethal Weapon movie would be on, but we did get to see another episode of our favorite British TV show, the one where this man and women ...

... pastry at Queen of Tarts. The shop is very well-known for its sweets, and I can see why. I had a rasberry almond pastry - DELICIOUS! Then, we set out to find Dublin Castle. After walking by it three times, and realizing we'd missed it, we decided it must not be that impressive of a building. When we finally discovered it, we realized how right we were. They have one part of the original building constructed by King John, but they've ...

... other animals to eat and we watched them roast them on the Campfire. I really loved having roasted Rabbit and enjoyed the cookout quite throughly. Our Warden Amanda was great and although we had fun we worked hard to get a lot done. I also saw a fantastic little farmhouse when I was helping taking down a fence and then I also saw a couple of deer as well. At the basecamp we played a few games of Trivel Persuit and my team did not fare so well but we had a fun time. We ...

... and Clark with the intention of seeing EVERYTHING! Okay, really, I was just there and doing whatever anyone else wanted to do. I mean, I'm in Ireland and just that is a major feat for a coward like me. We see shops and cathedrals, popping in and out of little stores and quickly realize that we are not in Kansas anymore. Dublin is super expensive. We knew that it would be but even beyond our own imagination did we think it would be as bad as it is. But, we were out all day that ...

... an INTERESTING CULTURAL EXPERIENCE. One old man (with the longest and most grizzled beard, which probably makes him the most wise and learned) gave us the name of a place to go for a traditional Irish breakfast, which we will check out tomorrow. We watched steeple chasing which as it turns out is a fabulous sport to make a lot of sarcastic commentary about. Our night ended early but well, and tomorrow we are all probably going to go to the Jameson Distillery.

... very informative and gave an emotion charged performance. When we exited the jail it was snowing. I must add here it is very cold in Ireland and as the irish would say "its feckin freeezin" so we made the decision to find somewhere warm and cozy for lunch which did not take us long as just across form the jail was a small irish pub called The Patriot. We ...

... in one of his new Star Wars movies. They actually filed a lawsuit against him but when the tourist numbers increased dramatically because of it they withdrew. We finally headed out of Dublin around 3pm once we eventually got through the roadworks and the crazy roundabout that had traffic lights all around it and I'm sure we stopped at every single one. Well maybe not all of them 'cos then we would have got back to where we started but just to dramatise the point ...