Day One: Chicago to Dublin

We boarded our flight out at about 6:45 PM and were off within the next 15 minutes-- I'm skipping prior to that as it wasn't really important. We were in the air for a little over 7 hours, and it was uncomfortableeee. Too many little kids and poor movie selections. "17 Again" and "Monster Versus Aliens" were the only two shown. I got to watch two episodes of Gurren Laggan before my computer decided to die on me, which was a tad depressing. Thankfully it was enough time that "17 Again" was over.

When we landed it was morning here, so basically I skipped having an official "night" time on the ground. I really didn't get any sleep on the plane, but I wasn't really tired. We got our bags rather quickly and took a shuttle to our hotel to check in and drop off our bags. The room, of course, wasn't ready yet, but we'd planned on this and took a bus out to downtown Dublin for lunch/shopping. There are so many unique street performers in Dublin! There were people doing sand castle carvings in sand they brought themselves! I'd never seen that before. We also dropped by a record store in hopes of finding some rare European releases of CD's-- No luck, of course-- but a CD I didn't have was on sale and it came in this awesome European case which is just so cool to me having never seen one before.

For lunch we went to "Captain America's," which I suppose was for irony, to see what they thought of American food. It was quite good, actually. Lots of U2 memorabilia in there too, I suppose the band likes the place. After this we went back to take the bus to our hotel to rest, and saw some more street performers. There was a guy doing puppet dancing, and a strange band consisting of a massive Cello and an acoustic guitarist/singer, which was a unique mix. They weren't that good. There was also a guy who was rather talented with the Violin, and a guy whose job it was to literally stand outside in a suit/top hat and hold a cane. That is quite possibly the most awesome job on earth.

After all this we got on the bus to head back to the hotel, however when we finally got here we learned that the room STILL wasn't ready. We had to sit around for yet another half an hour before the thing was finally ready. But we're in now, probably heading to bed soon. See you all tomorrow! :D