Wednesday June 3, 2009

Left for Dublin early, but not early enough because we actually did not have much time there.  Mindi told us that we were going to go on a hop-on hop-off bus which is expensive, but we never even were able to make it a whole run.  I had a hard time hearing the bus driver talk about the locations, but one of the interesting places that we saw was the Guiness Store House where all of the Guiness beer is made and Ireland consumes half of all of it.   We also passed by another Saint Patrick's Cathedral as well as Dublin Castle.  I wish we would have gone into at least one of these places rather than just look at the outside.  We found a cool place for lunch and we all ran off of the bus.  I had salmon for lunch - I try to get fish whenever possible because its so fresh here!  After lunch we had some free time, so we went and found Temple Bar, which is famous for its music and probably more but I don't really know.  Since Kelsey didn't get to go to Dublin last time we were there we took here around and went into shops and stuff, we really didn't have time to do anything else.  We had a couple of minutes left so we sat in the park like the Dubliners do and the boys hackey-sacked.  At 4pm we were let loose to go the airport since most of us were flying to London.  It was exciting and a little scary to be let loose, since we kind of just go along with things here.  We already had bus tickets to the airport so we went there.  The flight was really short, only an hour.  Once at Gatwick, Kelsey, Andrew, Phil and I chose the cheaper option, a bus into London.  We arrived around 11pm and then had to take the Underground from Victoria to King's Cross to get to our hostel, Journey's St. Pancras.  Sleeping in the hostel wasn't the worst thing in the entire world, but it wasn't okay either.  I slept so-so.  We didn't have flip flops so we bypassed the showers and had a piece of toast for breakfast because the bowls and silverware looked sketchy.  This was the last night we stayed in a hostel.