Got to the bus and airport, no problem. Got to Dublin eventually, by this time we were starving. But all the places had jacked up their prices for St. Patties Day. We eventfully found a fairly good cheap place, and had some breakfast food.s Then we walked around for a bit, found our hostels and stuff. Brette had tons of trouble getting out of her second night, because she wanted to leave early. My hostel strait-up cancelled my booking without telling me. I guess there was a huge thing going on, and they said they sent an e-mail, but i never got it. They did find me another hostel, but it was 27 euro instead of 17. I'm going to try to get them to pay for it. Anyway, dealing with those things took up a while. Afterwards, we wandered around. Saw Trinity College, which was pretty, but the Book of Kells was closed. We tried to find some Jazz Bars, and some random guy on the street told us where one of them was, and also explained all the famous Irish musicians over the ages. We were supposed to go to JJ SMiths, but that jazz didn't start until 8, so we went to try to find food. On the way i saw these cool braziers with actual fire outside some shop, and went over to check it out. Turns out they had live Jazz upstairs, which was sweet! It was the Dublin Jazz orchestra, and they were really good. They played a lot of stuff we had played in our jazz band at Muhlenberg, and had some cool vocals and solos. We met up with Cielito, then pretty much passed out. Before that, we ate at Supermacs, because everything else was too expensive (no relation to a McDonalds with Super Powers...I asked)
On St. Patties day, we got up, met at their hostel, and met a bunch of other people from their hostel, which was cool. Two dudes were from Zimbabwe, one guy was Israeli, and another girl was American. They were pretty cool. We saw the parade, which was neat. They didn't' really have any floats, only two, a cool robot and a motorcycler. Not many balloons, either. An owl and some cool dragons, and they made them dip down over the crowd, it was cool. Mostly walking people dressed up in really neat costumes. There were so many American marching bands, though...i think more than the Irish stuff! We saw Council Rock South, props to Jeff. Grabbed some pub food and drinks at one or two different pubs, pretty cool. Did the pub crawl for a bit, but it was really crowded, so we went back to the hostel to hang and play some games and stuff, which was fun. THen Dan and I caught the bus to the airport, and caught the plane to Luton, London, and slept at the airport. It sucked. Got up early, slept on the plaine, and off to Italy!!
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