Ireland: The Adventure Begins

So for Semana Santa (also known as SPRING BREAK), my mum and her school had spring break at the same time and they had a trip to Ireland planned out that my mum was on. The only obvious thing to do was join the trip since it was a trip to Ireland and I wanted to go to Ireland. I am extremely glad that her school allowed me to join the trip to so shout out to the wonderful school for letting me tag along!

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In order to tag along, I obviously had to get to Ireland which involved a flight to London, 9 hours of sitting in the airport which obviously involved reading 2 books and some games, and then a flight to Dublin. Let me tell you, both flights made me extremely annoyed with Ryanair. I mean sure I was in no hurry to get to London or Dublin, but I didn't need the delays that I was given at all. Especially since they never said the flights were delayed, they had us boarding for what felt like an hour even though the plane hadn't arrived for us to board and we were just standing in line waiting for it to show up. Both places I was overly culture shocked. I didn't get culture shocked in Spain when I arrived in January, but let me tell you going back to an English speaking place was a major culture shock. It took almost the whole week to actual adjust to that.

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Anyway after I arrived in Dublin, I had the whole day (because I arrived around 9am or something) to chill and get to the hotel where I would at some point meet the group. I had no clue when they were actually showing up at the hotel because the one day in the itinerary without times for everything obviously had to be the first day. I figured they'd get there around dinner time since I did do some investigating on where they were going and the amount of travel time that would take and then I decided how long they would probably stay at each place.

Well since I decided I had until dinner time, I took a bus into City Center of Dublin and walked around there. EVERYTHING was closed because it was Palm Sunday, obviously great planning on my part, and so I just aimlessly wandered around. Also this may be way too much information, but I really had to pee by now because it was Sunday and I left Saturday afternoon for the airport. I didn't pee at all during my travel time because I refuse to take my bags into a bathroom, that's just gross. I REALLY had to go by then. So I was aimlessly walking around, not really sure where I was going but wanting to find a cafe or something. Cafes are a lot harder to find when nothing is open but eventually I found a Starbucks, that had wifi, and just chilled there for a few hours.

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What my walk looked like

Then with my phone at the ready and backup directions on my iPad, I began my 2 hours walk to the hotel. It took 2 and a half hours though because I took a detour when the highway looked like there wasn't a sidewalk anymore and I wasn't really up to walking on the highway. I made it to the hotel though and only had to wait about an hour or so before they showed up much to my surprise, but then again I forgot dinner isn't around 9 for Americans. I was thinking Spanish time instead of their time so they would've been right on time if I had been thinking American time. So they arrived and we went to our rooms and then we had dinner where mashed potatoes were involved. I love mashed potatoes and didn't realize how much I missed them until I had them...

But yeah that was the beginning of my Ireland adventures. I'm bored of writing so day by day posts seems to be whats going to happen.... yay.....