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I’m attempting to take it a bit easy today- so it’s currently 1p and I’m still hanging out in my pajamas! Basically I’ve been working on my blog since I woke up for all of you to enjoy! We may go out again tonight, but for now I need some rest!

The weather has been great since we got here and all the locals tell us how lucky we are to have such great weather.

Coastline at Killiney.

It’s been in the mid to late 60s but with no rain so I guess this is great weather for Ireland. Yesterday we decided to take advantage of the nice weather and head to a beach in Killiney.

At the train station before heading down to Killiney.

All the people in the photo went and we took the train down there.

We took the bus to City Centre and then walked all the way to where we thought the train was, only to find it was the wrong one! Then we found that the train we needed was basically right where we had started with where the bus let us off. So we did a lot of unnecessary walking that ate up a lot of time, but we were all enjoying ourselves and no one was on a time limit so we actually enjoyed getting “lost.”

Killiney is about a thirty-minute train ride south of Dublin and is sooo beautiful! At first though we got on the wrong train (Apparently the rail we were on had both a commuter train and then the one we needed to take- The Dart). Luckily we got on the commuter rail and a local told us where to get off and which train to take to get to Killiney. So we wound up stopping in Dun Laoghaire

and getting on the Dart there to head down to the beach.

Okay- Amy and Jahna just knocked on my door and want to head to City Centre for some shopping so I’m gonna head down there with them! I’ll finish this up later!

Alright- I’m back. Shopping turned out to be not so much fun because I was so bloody tired. But anyway, back to what I was talking about…

The day at the beach was great, though I wound up with a bit of sunburn. I didn’t put any suntan lotion on because I stupidly didn’t think I’d need it.

Hanging out at the beach in Killiney.

Though it’s good weather in Ireland terms, it was still only about 68. But I guess that’s hot enough to get burned! We came home after the beach and all grabbed some dinner, then headed back down to City Centre for the night.

We wound up at a great bar called “The Auld Dubliner,” which was two stories with live music on the second floor.

On the bus before heading out our first Saturday night.

So here’s the best part- Amy and I went up to the second floor and grabbed a seat as we waited for everyone else to make their way up. While we were waiting we saw this guy walking up to us. And both her and I were sort of liked, ugh we don’t want to deal with being hit on right now. Well then we looked at his face and saw that it was James! Okay, remember the other night when we were “stalking” the English boys and two of them wound up hanging out with us?! That James, the same James that Denise made out with figuring she’d never have to see him again!

Oh my gosh, it was the greatest- I started laughing my head off!! Well remember they got separated from their bachelor party the other night, well they were actually at the Auld Dubliner with that party so we got to meet all their friends. We actually wound up hanging out with their party the whole night, and we were basically the only ones on the second floor so it was actually a lot of fun.

The bachelor was adorable too (or as they call it in English- the Stag.) We were talking for a bit and comparing slang dating/hooking up terms in American and Britain, haha. We were talking about what 1st base, 2nd base, etc are in Britain- I forget exactly what he said, but he said a “homerun” was something silly- ugh, I wish I remembered! And then we were talking about how “making out” in America is “snogging” in Britain and a bunch of funny things like that. He was actually a really great guy- he reminded me of one of the boxing coaches where I workout back in Boston actually with some of the things he said, and his whole positive, life-is-great attitude! It was just a fun night overall. We hung out there until around 2 or 3 and then made our way back home for some major SLEEP TIME!

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kmr788 on May 31, 2009 from Killiney, Ireland

from the travel blog: Dublin, Ireland

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