the diary of an insane person: dublin

dublin. mary was so excited to go back to the place where she spent so many years... and she was so terribly disappointed. dublin in the 2000's is not the same as dublin in the 1950's. nonetheless we did some fun stuff.

we got to dublin via the bus. we took the bus from letterfrack to galway city and then caught a bus to dublin. once we arrived in dublin we got some food and started walking! we walked all around near trinity college, temple bar, the river and the cathedrals. our walk was partnered with off and on rains but i enjoyed every bit of it!

after about 2 hours of walking we checked in to a hotel in the temple bar area, put our feet up for a little and got some dinner. the area was full of people and music and dancing and there isn't a place in dublin that you can't hear it from! :)

the night in the hotel was eventful. the fire alarm went off twice because someone who had enjoyed dublin a bit too much had smashed the fire alarm in order to get someone to help him get into his room. mary was convinced we were going to die after it happened the first time and then when it went off the second time she was apologizing to me that i was too young to die. it was just a crazy bit of an evening.

in the morning we decided that we were going to go to the guinness factory and then catch the bus back to galway city. from the hotel the lady told us it would take us 10 minutes to walk to the factory... a good 45 minutes later we arrived there, went on our self-guided tour of the building and made it to the gravity bar at the top of the building. it's an amazing view of all of dublin and you can see out of the building in all directions. it was really something. mary and i got our complimentary guinness and mary had to go to the bathroom. i made quick friends with 2 scottish ladies who were standing at a table and mary went to the bathroom. and here's the bit that i'm not really sure about.... mary must have just been coming out of the bathroom when my cousin scott (from ny) and his wife serena spotted her. scott said he thought that it was my grandma and followed her up to the top level where we all found each other. it was the perfect way to spend the afternoon in dublin catching up with scott and serena.

we took the busses back to letterfrack and i think it's safe to say we were both glad to have made it home in one piece.

in the guinness factory