I am sorry that we suck at blogging...

Well, I think that the most important thing to be mentioned here is that Katie found a Starbucks...yes I am serious. Miss Katie has several giftcards to Starbucks and was hoping to be able to use them in Galway, however, the city is absent of a Starbucks. But, there were two that we ran into in Dublin! I was excited too, gotta love a taste of home! In our two day, one night stay in Dublin, we were sure to enjoy the luxury two times...

So, Dublin. We took the short 2.5 hour bus ride to Dublin early Saturday morning. Upon our arrival we walked to our hostel and checked in quick so we could be sure to get in some tourist activities for the rest of the day. First, we needed sustenance so we ate at this tasty restaurant, the name of which I cannot remember. Following, we looked around Trinity College and Dublin Castle but opted out of the guided tours since we plan to spend more time in Dublin. We also spent an hour or so on Grafton Street to look around the shopping stores. I found a fabulous Lady Gaga tee for only 3 euro! We then took some time to relax at the hostel before going out to the pubs. The pubs were fun but crowded and since we had a tour the next day we turned in semi-early.

The next day we took a tour of County Wicklow and got to see some beautiful countryside as well as the Guiness Lake and lots of sheep! Also, the tour guide was the very same Stephen that I got to tour with last year, so that was exciting. Plus, he is a cutie.

During our stay in Dublin we noticed a few things. There seems to be the most awful of hair trends occurring. it consists of the under part of the hair being long and stringy and the upper parts being rather short and fluffed out. Don't really get it and I hope it doesn't catch in the States. Also, the doors. For some reason, several locations in Dublin have seem to have something going on with their doors. This "something" consists of taking the standard size door and splitting it in half, each half is on hinges on it's respective side of the frame; saloon style, if you will. However, since the total parts of the door equal a standard sized door, it is basically impossible to get through these doors with any amount of grace. ANY.

When the time came to head back to Galway, 7:15pm Sunday, we were ready. It was nice to travel west and feel like we were heading home, because Galway is our home for now.

Well folks, we will try to keep up a bit better with the blogging...

Until next time...