Dublin

Saturday 6/27/09

Sleeping in has to be one of my favorite things. I love waking up without hearing an alarm clock. Morgan and I have started staying up a bit later, and getting up a bit later in preparation for Monday when we’re going to have to switch our body clocks back to east coast time. Today we spent most of the day walking around down town. We stopped first at Trinity College, where Morgan was very excited to see the Book of Kells. Then we went on a tour of Dublin Castle, and Christ Cathedral. Our walk through the city was interrupted by the Dublin Pride parade, which is apparently an annual event in June. Not exactly what I had envisioned for our day in Dublin, but none the less it was memorable. Plenty of drag queens, and lots of people dressed like the village people… such a strange parade to stumble across. In the evening we attempted the pub scene again, but were somewhat disappointed by the smoky atmosphere and the sky high prices, Dublin really is an expensive city. So instead of the pub we hit the grocery store again, since we don’t have a kitchen here it was sandwiches and yogurt for us. We did a little reading, and once again it’s time for bed. Tomorrow we’re going to try to get out of the city a little and head over to Phoenix Park, maybe take in the zoo. Hopefully the weather holds out for us. It would be nice to have a nice last day in Europe.