Hello! So after three long flights I finally arrived in Dublin early Friday morning. I met up with two friends and after checking into our hotel, slept most of the day. We went to a few bars later that night and met a lot of very nice Irish people. I was a little surprised that everyone knows where West Virginia is, and they’ll then proceed to sing you “Country Roads.” People are also excited that Obama is our new president and so am I :-) Other than that, I’ve just been exploring the city! I took a tour of Dublin Castle, walked through St. Stephen’s Green, and went to St. Patrick’s Cathedral. The St. Patrick’s Day parade was huge and people were standing on ladders just to look. We didn’t see any great floats and after a while of pretending that watching the parade was fun, we had lunch and beers. It seemed like there were more tourists (mainly American) than actual Irish celebrating but it was a fun day!
I’m leaving Dublin today and taking a train to Sligo which is in the northwest region of Ireland. Hopefully the weather will still be great (still haven’t had rain!). Miss you and see you soon!
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