DuBlin

So back to Alex and Amanda's visit....

Tuesday, day before St. Patty's day, we departed for Ireland.
Our hotel was a little outside of a city, but it was fine because we got some walking in and got a chance to see the area around Dublin.

St. Patrick's day we woke up early to get the Guiness Museum in before the St. Patrick's day parade.
Like the Heinken Museum, it was AWESOME! Much bigger than Heinken and there was a lot more to do. The museum had a infinity bar at on the 7th floor where we received our free beer.... at 11am ha. It was also cool being up that high because we could see all of Dublin! It is not very big I noticed from being this high and water is not too far away. It was really funny because we pre-ordered our Guiness tickets online and they had a special on this day for anyone named Patrick, or anything similar to it like Pat, Patty, Patricia.... these people were VIP... Very Impotant Patricks who got access to certain rooms and a free entrance fee. haa

After the museum we were on our way to the parade. Let me tell you... it was the geratest, most entertaining, exotic, lively parade I have ever been too. They really go all outttt. The theme this year was "Around the World" so there were themes fro different countries. People went all out on their costumes and really went above and beyond on the floats. Seriously, I can't even describe what I saw, you just gotta see the pictures.. The streets were packed with people in green, that one could hardly move to walk anywhere. Also, many of the shops were closed, due tot he holiday.

Meg and I were a little nervous about going to Ireland for St. Patty's because soo soooo sooo many people told us that in Dublin they consider St. Patrick's Day a "religious holiday" and no one really does anything... these people were quickly proved wrong.

Like I said, streets= mass chaos. For blocks and blocks there were people everywhere!! We tried so many places to go in to get some food and have a drink after the parade but everywhere was swarmed with people! It was awesome though because we met so many people, who were beyond friendly. The first pub we went to, we met these three guys from Ireland who informed us a lot about Ireland. We learned that "craic" (yes pronounced like "crack") means to have fun and one of the guys went to the states fro business and asked his co-worker where the good places to have craic were.... long story short, he almost got fired because of it. hahaha

Anywho, people were dancing all over the tables and chairs  and literally anywhere there was room... which there was not a lot of because it was so crowded so it was quite entertaining.