We're in the land of Ire! Our adventure began the minute we woke up at 2 in the morning to catch our flight at 6...getting to pisa wasn't difficult- after sidestepping a few annoying american tourists to get on the bus we ended up sleeping the whole way anyway. We got to Pisa without a hitch, got on our plane, and we were off; playing the mission impossible theme on my ipod as we left the runway. When we got here it was- surprise!- raining and cold; we never thought we'd miss the current Italian weather but apparently even Italy is warmer than here.
Finding our hostel was an adventure in and of itself- it was super windy and when my umbrella decided to reveal how cheaply made it was (it turned completely inside out!) a nice man stopped and helped me fix it. Everyone kind of looks like a leprauchaun here- there aren't too many gingers (rosie and I have been counting every one we see) but other than that all other stereotypes have been found to be entirely correct. Everyone is extremely friendly and there are bars on every corner!
At our hostel we met some interesting people- when we first went up to our room (on the very top floor, mind you), a naked Korean man randomly came out of the bathroom. Great start to our vacation! Very soon after we left the room (no offense naked Korean man, but we have better things to to than stick around to see your you know what) and wanted to get a beer. We found the first bar we could, sat down on the stool, only to find out that- surprise again! It's good friday here and so they aren't serving any alcohol. Who would have thought the Irish were THAT Catholic?? I think Rosie was more upset than I was but I'm pretty sure they're serving beer today. I have a feeling everyone's going to stock up before tomorrow when all the bars shut down again!
The rest of the day was spent finding our way between all the sights; we paid to see the Book of Kells where I blessed Rosie with the history of the book recited in Lord of The Rings style. She also found out where the Ring of Power came from, thanks to yours truly. Some guys who were walking in front of us thought it was funny but someone else shh'ed us for being too loud. sheesh, lighten up!
We also found a Tesco right by our hostel, and to save some money that's where we've been eating. Last night for dinner Rosie bought a packaged pizza (like we haven't had pizza before) and I got some soup in a bag for 60 eurocents. cheap and easy! We went back to the hostel to cook our dinner and- third surprise!- everyone who was staying there was LEGIT cooking- yeah, that's the real thing- instead of using the microwave in the corner. People were making chicken, omelettes, hot dogs with tomato sauce (yeah, I don't get that one either) and everyone was staring (and probably internally laughing) at my bag o' soup. Hey, I'm traveling, leave me alone.
We went back up to our room after dinner only to discover that more people had moved into our room- there's Extremely Hairy Guy (who sleeps right below Rosie) who had no problem flashing me his testicles this morning. That was a great wake up call! There's also the two Spanish guys (one of whom brushes his teeth super loud) and another Spanish girl who I was looking at this morning when another head popped out of her covers. Surprise again! There's two people sleeping in that bed; which is a lot better than the alternative that I considered. I thought she was one of those conjoined twins or something. At breakfast today we met two Italian women (who I practiced my Italian with for 4.23 seconds before I realized that hey, I don't have to speak Italian here) and Weird Brochure Lady who's an extremely obese American woman passing out brochures to everyone. She kind of smells funny too but that's okay because so does the entire hostel.
So, that's where we're at right now. We're headed to the guiness factory today because it's closed tomorrow (in my humble opinion Jesus didn't plan his ressurection very well- couldn't he have waited until NEXT weekend?) and right now we're at a little internet place where everyone is playing WOW and checking their facebook.
Can't wait to see what adventures we're going to find today!!!
Ciao for now.
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