Dublin

hey all! So just got back from Dublin on monday night. We left around 5am Saturday morning to catch an early flight out of cork. We had an interesting experience at the airport. we sat down next to the bathrooms waiting to get on the plane. While sitting there stephanie went into the bathroom and while she was in there a GUY walked out of the girls bathroom! I thought this was hilarious since the guy and girl bathrooms were very clearly marked. It got better though. Because a minute or so later ANOTHER guy walked INTO the girls bathroom haha and then came running out looked up at the sign and ran over to the guys bathroom. Stephanie came out and I was dying of laughter and she said "there was a guy in there!" and I told her not one 2! Apparently the first guy I saw came out of the stall and asked her if she was in the wrong bathroom or if he was hah. Then as if it couldn't get better...a GIRL went into the mens bathroom. hahaha then she came quickly back out looked at the sign and went into the girls. Now we were watching and waiting for more because apparently the Irish have trouble with the separate bathroom concept. then a guy and his wife stopped outside the womens bathroom. we figured we might get a double on this one. but the man walked right into the womens bathroom and his wife just waited outside. THEN he came back out handed her something and went BACK IN! haha this was like the funniest thing i have seen in months. but that's all we had time to see because we had to board the plane.

once in Dublin we checked into our hostel which was not as nice as the last one but it wasn't terrible. We saw Christ Church, went into the crypt below which was pretty cool. We got some food at the grocery store so we wouldn't have to eat out as much and could save money. We ate at this place called abrakababra for dinner and it was terrible lol i hardly ate any of what I bought but oh well. We called it an early night so we could start the next day early. Sunday we went to New Grange. It is basically a really friking old tomb made to look like a hill. It is said important people are buried there etc. But it is older than the pyramids and supposed to be the biggest tomb around. It was pretty cool we got to go inside of it and it was very tiny compared to how large it looks on the outside. That's about all we had time to do on sunday but we went to a pub when we got home and watched a soccer match that was on and got some ice cream from a vendor at the mall, which is my first ice cream since being in Ireland yum! Monday we saw the national museum and also Dublin Castle. Look at the captions under the pictures for more details that I learned about there because they were really interesting and little known facts! Ps as of 2011 Ireland will have had female presidents for 21 years straight how cool. Then we found crepes for 2 euro which is really cheap so of course I got one! :) but then had to catch my plane which I cut it close on because I had to stand in line for security for over an hour! But I'm back now for a few days and start my big trip on monday! :)

ps pictures are up in the cork folder under Dublin!