the day that lasted about 36 hours...

So today lasted about eight million hours, and now, lo and behold I’m wide awake. After our 8am class, Chandler and I high tailed it to Atlanta where we took MARTA (chandler’s first time!!) to the airport where we started our trek to the emerald isle. Nothing really eventful happened on the flight, I actually managed to sleep which was a godsend after my Taiwan trip (see are you there ambien, it’s me gabi), we got off, went through immigration, and was greeted by Dan who took us to Susan’s since we couldn;’t get into our hostel until like 2. Once we got to Susan’s, we promptly passed out for a couple hours (maybe?) until it was time to lug all of our stuff to our hostel and get ready for the day..

documenting Chandler's first MARTA experience

First stop for us was Trinity College where we got a tour around campus (it started raining, awesome) and saw the book of Kells. The long room of the library was awesome-so many books arranged by size (um efficient), but sadly we were not allowed to take pictures, so you have to take my word for it. After our trinity college excursion we grabbed lunch in a super cute café in the bottom of an even cuter store, and then went to Dublin Castle for a tour. Our tour was supposed to be at like 330, but they decided to move it to 4:45 so we went to a nearby chapel, took like 8 billion pictures, and picked up a snack at this little bakery shop called the queen of tarts. SO GOOD. So then we FINALLY got a tour of Dublin castle, which was pretty interesting, but at that point in time I hit a major wall and literally almost fell asleep standing up.

outside dublin castle

the group at the gate of dublin castle

book of Kells at Trinity College

the girls at trinity college

After the tour though, I perked up when I had my first pint of Irish Guinness while watching the second half of the Ireland/Wales rugby match (The Irish were not victorious, sadly). Once the game ended, we hopped a bus to Aileen’s house because her mother was cooking us dinner, which was AMAZING. Plus she made welcome cakes AND cupcakes. So so sweet of her! A lot of Aileen’s friends from school came-We ate, we drank, we were merry, and then we all caravanned via taxi to a club. Clubs are not, and will never be my scene, but this was fun enough I suppose. We were all together and dancing and having a good time, which is all that matters. Despite the fact that it was cold and nasty outside, the inside was nice and toasty and being the resourceful and inventive athletic training student that I am, I traded my sweater for a top I fashioned out of my scarf. CLUTCH. Anyhow, super tired. I’ll add pictures and more info later