Mercer Court (Budget Accommodation) Dublin

Today we arrived in Ireland! Both of our planes were a little late, but Kristin and I were lucky enough to find each other in the Dublin airport. I had a momentary freak out as I realized we did not come up with a back-up plan in case either one of us had cancelled flight, or missed a flight, or anything of the sort...and Kristin's plane was quite late, and I could not remember what city she was coming from, but all was well, because we did find each other.
We took a cab to our hotel, and ...

It rained today, which was really no shocker, as it has rained EVERYWHERE that we have been on our trip. The only bummer was that we payed for the city tour on an open-roofed double-decker bus. Why would we not just sit inside the bus, you ask? Well, just as we could handle biking in the rain in Scotland, a little rain on the top of the bus in Dublin would do us no harm. Washingtonians were built for days like this.
We did not wake up until about 11:00am today, so we got some GOOD sleep, w...

Here is our tentative plans, we'll see where the wind takes us!! We fly into Dublin Thurs 26 June and then head to Manchester, England to see our friend Lisa!

Hey everyone! We made it safely to Dublin, the flight wasn't too bad, it seemed to go fast. Sarah and I watched the sun set and Rise within two hours of each other which was kind of cool to see! We flew over canada which was also cool, it is cold and rainy here :( and we are excited to get to Manchester and stay with Lisa and her family! We all broke down and took a nap for two and a half hours got up and are now walking around Dublin City Center. We ate at a Indian Resturant that a local tol...

Well, it's finally happened! We're in Europe! Becky drove us to the Chicago last night so we could catch our first plane. As soon as Becky dropped us off it hit us...we are all alone! Everything went very smoothly. We made our first currency exchange and boy was that a shocker! We got to see the sunset and rise within two hours of each other. That was pretty cool. It was hard to sleep on the plane so when we landed, we were all very sleepy! We had to wait in a line (que) a long time to enter ...

Hello! We arrived safely in Dublin this morning, about an hour late and only a little bit of a rough flight....not to worry, the anxiety meds did wonders! haha. We found a hotel pretty easily and are having a great time exploring a little at a time. We are all pretty tired, but are fighting sleep for now! We are hoping to make it until 8 or 9 tonight. We took a little cat nap at the hotel and then went to supper. People have been really great about helping the crazy lost Americans!! Tomorrow,...