Dublin- Fall Break

Finally we had come to the last part of our almost two week trip. We had lived out of one backpack and reworn dirty clothes for a little too long. We flew out of Edinburgh and into Dublin. We stayed right down in the middle of the city. The streets surrounding our hostel were clean and safe but they were busy during all hours of the night and day. The area we were staying in was pretty touristy and had tons of shops and stores. I found that the people of Ireland were very very welcoming and nice. The first full day in Dublin half of the group (of nine girls) decided we wanted to take some kind of tour. We started asking around and found out about the viking tours. The tours were taken from different kind of perspective. The vikings lived among the celts but did not care for them at all. They had alot of their own seperate history and cultural things in Dublin. The tour was taking while in a big bus type vechical. What was neat about the vechical was that it was from World War One and was a special vechical that could go both on land and water. We took a tour around the city wearing viking helmets and growling at civilians but then later on the tour we drove into the water and began our waterway tour. I really enjoyed learning the history of the viking from their point of view and also with sooo much excitement and etertainment.

The next day was Hallloween. The girls and I had packed small items in out backpacks that help s transform into our characters. I was a mouse. I wore ears, a nose, a tail, and a pink bowtie. Some of the other girls were things like a cheerleader, a cat, a witch, a devil, and a princess. We had tried to get a couple little things that was could take that wouldnt take up too much room but also would be alot of fun! I was surprise at how decorated and dressed up the city of Dublin turnout to be. We all went to eat and shop around during the late afternoon and dinner time of the night. Later, We went into the main part of the city and walked the streets looking at everyone elses customs. The girls and I then decided to play a game. The games rules were as follows, get a partner, assign each partner either the opposite or the match to their custom. Then the first person to locate her assignment and take a picture with assignment won! The streets were crowded and we all split up into small groups to find our halloween patches.

The next day was shopping and traveling home to Vienna. Thankfully we flew out of Dublin and straight into Vienna. Every other plane took us to the airport in Slovockia which is about an hour trian ride away. After gettting into Vienna and settling down, the group came together and celebrated our safe travels and the good feeling it was to get back home to Vienna.