Saturday & Sunday: Easter Break

Good news! Matt and Dan (Steph's boyfriend and his friend) decided they want to meet an hour later this morning, so I have time to blog!

On Saturday Steph and I went to meet Matt and Dan at the Guinness Storehouse, but we were an hour and fifteen minutes late. We underestimated the amount of time the bus would take, and then we had to walk about a mile and a half to get there. It. took. forever. Sadly they were no longer there, and they didn't have cell phones. We were super bummed at first, but we decided we wouldn't let it ruin our day! We just walked around Dublin and took some pretty pictures, and did a little shopping of course:)

Not sure what this one is called, but it was beautiful. Cathedrals are hard to get good pictures of because they are so huge but so close to everything. It's impossible to back up to get the best picture.

This is the Christ Church Cathedral. It's the oldest building in all of Dublin. It was unbelievable. They weren't doing tours that day, but we plan to go back for one someday.

On Sunday we finally made it to Matt and Dan's hotel! Steph and I were really proud because we found the correct buses to take and we did a great job. This is a great accomplishment, because the buses here aren't quite as simple as the Bloomington buses, and that's an understatement.

The first thing we did with the guys was go to a pub to have a traditional Irish breakfast! Well, Dan did at least. Matt, Steph, and I all had fish 'n chips. Delicious! We then walked pretty far to find a different pub that was selling tickets to a Literary Pub Crawl we wanted to do. Once we finally made it there we learned that they sell them in the evening, bummer! So after all that walk what did we decide to do? Sit at the pub and do it all over again!

We found another band!

Afterwards we ventured to the National Wax Museum. It was neat, but we didn't really know who were looking at half the time. We had a lot of fun though.

We were pretty proud of this one.

Love Yoda, I do.

This thing was creeeeepy.

Hannibal!

This girl was fighting some wolf-beast thing. She was apparently some sort of Viking.

At one point in time we made it to the Dublin Castle. They had a tour, but we couldn't find where it began, so we just kind of hung out. After a while we finally found a tour, and we hopped in during the end of it. We aren't sure if we were supposed to pay, but no one said anything and we didn't want to interrupt, so we just enjoyed it:)

This was a small chapel inside the castle. Scenes from the new movie "Leap Year" were filmed here.

After this we of course did quite a bit more walking around Dublin. We finally met at the Duke at 7pm for the Literary Pub Crawl. There were two actors who quoted and acted out scenes from traditional Irish literature. We stopped at four pubs, Trinity College, and the St. Andrew's Cathedral. It was really neat and we had a great time. When everyone would gather around to watch the actors they would ensure all the short people were in the front. I of course didn't mind that one bit:) Especially because there was a girl who was legitimately 6'7" trying to get in the front every time.

These were the actors.

This is the Duke, where the pub crawl began.

During the pub crawl I saw this! I thought it was cool since Lebanon was named after the Cedars of Lebanon in the Bible. I felt right at home here :)

Afterwards we made our way home. It was really late and we were exhausted, but now we're ready to do it all over again!