Man am I getting used to these 5:30 AM alarms. I would love to write some poetic words about how its nice to get up with the birds and the way the light shines on the water in the wee hours of the morning is unparalleled but I cannot. We have a super fun 8 hour bus ride ahead of us and I am very excited. NOT. The plan is to just watch Date Night (my favorite movie) over and over again until we are there. Well of course we get on and I try to go to be immediately because its semi-quiet and it is still really early. I honestly don't know what I was thinking because the man in front of us was picking his head and I was doing everything I could just to keep from vomitting. Not sleeping with that vision burned into my retinas.
What to do?? Read? Sure, why not. I started my new book and got so into that I never stopped again. We took a few breaks and we actually had really good scenary nearly the whole trip.
We arrived around 16:30 and made our way to the hostel. It is literally in the middle of nowhere. I mean honestly people are turning their heads to look at us because we are surely lost. Oh well, it is not like we wanted to spend time in Zadar anyway. We walked down to the grocery to get things to make dinner and headed back. I went to bed early. I think I slept with a mosquito last night- it was all a blur and obviously I wouldn't done it by day. ... The marks all over my face and body indicate we really went at it and he won. I have 7 mosquito bites on my FACE. I have a total of 31 on my arms, stomach and ankles. They are driving me insane and I can't stop scratching.
I finished my book ps. 400 pages makes me feel like the day wasn't a complete waste.
June 28th- Travel to Dublin, Ireland
We arrived at the Zadar airport at 4:45 by taxi and waited for it to open before going through security and arriving at 1 of 5 gates. The flight was no better than yesterday's bus and I couldn't sleep even though I knew it was going to be a loooong day. We lost and hour and arrived at a cool 8:30 in Dublin. Already love it. The airport was huge and clean and everyone is sooooo nice and helpful. It's a huge difference from other European countries. We got on a double decker bus!!! EEEK.
We are really excited because not only is this bus the coolest, it had wifi. WHAT?? That is so cool. You can be so productive on this thing. We planned our only full day in Dublin thanks to the list Owen Meadows (Ruths boyfriend) made for us. We stored our bags at the hostel and guess what?? Well turns out I am not perfect- shocking I know- and I booked the hostel for the following night. Out of the 10 places I booked for this trip it was the only one I messed up so that is an up right? Thank god it got worked out and we took the last 2 places in the whole hostel allegedly. We headed to grab some 2nd breakfast since we ate about 5 hours ago now. Afterwards we headed to Guiness. It was genius although Pilsner Urquell in Plzen, Czech Republic was way cooler. This brewhouse was more of a museum than a tour but we got a tasting and this cool smelling thing and then we got a free pint. So I can't really complain about anything now can I? You have to drink Guiness a certain way and no lie it makes it taste better. If you are curious just hit me up and I would be more than happy to teach you. Also, I have decided that I will be brewing my own beer in the very near future. I don't have a job or anything so why would I not just like accept it and do bum crafts?
Katelyn and I regrouped at the hostel really quick and headed out to dinner at Bobos Gourmet Irish Burgers- Owen's pick. It was heavenly. Food here is definitely a priority and there is so much variety. I am raising my hands at this moment because I have never been so happy to see chinese take out and food that isn't fish with eyes still intact, pizza or pasta. Have I mentioned I love Ireland? The people are so wonderful, the food is amazing, the sights are gorgeous. Is it too good to be true?? Well the downside to it all is the weather. Its cold and rainy always. It is 11 degrees today and the sun is out currently. If you don't suspect rain definitely bring your rain jacket or umbrella anyway. It is going to happen.
I should tell you that I have decided to switch to the metric system and celcius and military time. I may as well get on board with the majority of the world- it just makes more sense to be honest and it is so easy to understand.
Been thinking a lot about careers and having more and more people suggest options to me. I definitely have to learn another language first. Again thinking German. This would open so many doors for me. No lie- the amount of jobs speaking 2 languages fluently opens up to you is insane. I feel mad that schools don't push it more while we are young and follow through with it as we grow up. I have truly missed out and I am upset about it.
I have a lot of ideas to explore when I get home. I am actually looking forward to this next step and this huge leap.
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