Boys and Girls in Green

Ireland.

It is an AMAZING place to be... given that we went to Dublin... where people are nice as they can be and are friendly and welcoming to all... though... there are a lot of doggy doo on the grounds... everywhere...

We did lots of crazy things, but the highlight, at least for me, is going to the costal-line in Sandycove.... it was B-E-A-U-tiful!!! then we 'hiked' which really means climb in Bill's (our director) terms, to some obelisk... but the sight was amazing...

So to get to the airport, we woke up at the asscrack of dawn... i think we left the flat at like 5.30 am or something like that... we got on our tube towards heathrow... we made fun of jeff when we were at our terminal.... then everything after that, it's kinda blurry...

That night [our first night in Dublin] (i'd tell you what we did on the first DAY, but I can't really remember), we did the Musical Pub Crawl... which was fun as hell, and our dear Libby sang Mercedes Benz by Janis Joplin, and Kim (a musical theatre major) sang Let It Be... kind of... she was just a wee bit drunk and needed a little help.... there was another girl, Olivia who sang a nice song... just didn't happen to fit a pub... or the mood... especially after Libby's knee-slappin' song... :P

then on the second day, after the sandycove trip, we went down grafton, and other streets and bought little things... i bought some 'folk' music CD and a HAT... muahhaha... good stuff, and then we looked for a place to eat for like an hour before I finally said... we're just gonna eat THERE and just pointed to a place, which happened to be Italian... so we had delicious dinners, then we went to the Piano bar forever (where there was no piano-ing til 1am, we got there at like 8pm...), and had some alcohol... and Jason decided that the bartender was flirting with me, and I was being unconsciously coy... but I think he's just full of SHIT... then Libby wanted to flirt with the bartender.. or wanted to look at him, or something... i dunno... so we sat nearer to the bar instead of the other room... then we drank one more round [(Jason-Guiness,Libby-Cider,Me-bacardi&coke,Momo-had nothin...)x2]... then we walked around temple bar area because i think we wanted to find a place to hang and such, but libby got tired so she went back to the hotel by herself, and jason, momo, and I were just wandering about, when we ran into steph,jeff,amy,and melissa (who is from australia)... so we took a cab together and went to the Palace... which is a nightclub downstairs, bar/poolhall upstairs... we were looking for Gary, who is an IC-er as well, but we were all tired and hung out at the pool hall... jeff and i were gonna play pool, but it cost like €20 or something per hour, so we didn't, and instead, i put €2 into the table game machine and played ms.pac-man for hours with jeff, jason, and melissa... then we left because we were dead tired... then proceeded to pass out.

The last day there, Libby, Momo, and I went to the Guiness Factory..... it's pretty well set up - and it was fun to go to the gravity bar... and belive it or not, i had a very small sip of guiness... which is an amazing feat for me because I don't drink beer.... and yea yea... Guiness is special... blah blah..... and it was gross, but there was a hint of taste that could be enjoyed... I guess.... :) it was fun.... then it was time to go to the hotel to get to the airport...

and at the airport...

There was food poisoning or virus that made people throw up on the previous flight... so we were stuck at the airport for about 2 hours or so... or was it more? but it was crazy fun... I got an Ireland football jersey...!! yay... no one was really bothered by our delay... it was like, the IC group and some Curling team? who were DRUNK as HELL because they had been drinking NON STOP of what else? but vodka, etc... so they got reprimended by the stewards/esses... two kept talking to me.... one of them kept touching my knee... and i was like... wahhhhhhh... but even before taking off, one of the IC girls started to cry and kinda freak out because she's afraid of flying... and I think she has balls for flying to england from the US... that's crazy balls man... but she was fine... yea... it was fun still... except we didn't get to take the tube back because... welll... it was CLOSED... so we took a cab... then we all passed out after jason cooked us chicken because we were starving... the end.