Hello all! Our first full day has been great but exhausting! After going to bed early last night to catch up on missed sleep, we got up just in time to miss the free breakfast at the hostel (we now know to ask about end times!). We got ready and discovered that one of the girls staying in our room is from San Francisco and knows a guy from Santa Clara that we knew. Small world! We took off and walked about 8 blocks to wait for a bus. After standing for awhile, a...

We arrived in one piece! although dearly lacking in sleep. we've got about 2 hours of sleep going on what is Tuesday night here since we left Fairfield Monday morning. The city is amazing, everything is green, the cars are all some sort of hybrid and so there is almost no street traffic noise, and there are tons of little dogs everywhere (one whom we met named Papy). We spent the morning finding our hostel, checking in and finding lunch. After lunch at a tiny lit...

hi everyone! contrary to the location set on this blog we are NOT in Dublin yet, but America was not an option! Just wanted to send an initial note, make sure emails were working etc. We officially have 3 days to pack before we take off for Ireland. For the parents, we are leaving from SF on American flight 1612 to New York and then American flight 92 straight to Dublin. Beginning monday morning, we've got a lovely 15 hour travel time before we touch down on anot...