Now I am going to have to kiss the Blarney stone (even if locals pee on it like Shawn says). I told the lady at the baggage claim that I would kiss the blarney stone for her if my bag made it! Kissin' piss=gross, having my ironman finishers shirts/hats and not having to clothes shop=priceless. Besides, pee is sterile (haha). So day one in Ireland was Dublin. We ran our sleep deprived bodies all over and don't really remember the names of all the places we went. We decided that we were tired when:
1. We decided we were happy when we hit a dead end road. It was the 1st place we decided to go. We got our map, headed out of the hotel and turned right. Kept walking until we hit the dead end. It was the wrong way. If we hadn't hit the dead end we would have surely walked into the river!
2. We both, simultaneously, fell asleep on the hop on, hop off city tour bus.
3. Got real excited by the number of public toilets advertised in big red signs all up and down the road. After looking more closely, I discovered they were not toilet signs but: TO LET. Remember, we had not slept for a while!
4. Almost getting run over repeatedly while crossing the street. Then we looked down only to find that they have "Look Left" or " Look Right" painted at the start of the crosswalks for us morons who can't figure out which way to look for oncoming traffic. (they drive on the left hand side of the road)
5. We almost were showered by "Lisa's people". A city tour bus company has old Duck Boats that are themed viking ships. They have the people on board wearing the old viking helmuts with the horns sticking out. Anyways, they spray out water from the side of the "boat" as they are going by, hooting and hollering. We almost got nailed!
6. Funny conversations like this one:
L:"was that a girl"
S: "no, it was a guy with boobs"
L "It looked like a tibetan monk with boobs cuz it was bald in the front and hair down to it's shoulders in the back. And it was wearing a long skirt"
s: "yah - like the ultimate mullet"
L: "I'm glad you saw that too, I thought I was so tired I was imagining things."
7. Lisa thought the cars were driving themselves. No one was on the "drivers side" of the car.
We ended the day in the Guiness factory - awesome! We went then and had a pint and some fish 'n chips for dinner. All and all a great day. tommorrow=driving, should get interesting :-)
Irish accent class 101:
They pronounce thr as tr, th as t. And they cannot pronounce cathedral.
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