Before I go any further, let me apologize to the poor woman whose head I was standing next to in the New York subway train for 40 minutes. I'd spent a good 12 hours eating nothing but cashews and protein bars, followed by a quick pizza and gelato run in NYC between flights. Let's just say, it put the "intense" in "intestines." :-/
At any rate, we've had a packed 28 hours with not much--any?--sleep, so it's not quite 9 pm here and we're ready to crash for the night. The highlight of today has been hearing people speak with an Irish accent. I know I know, typical of an American, but I just melted when a fatherly-type at the table next to us parted ways by saying to me, "Nice ta meetcha dairlin'!"
The big tourist thing we did today was take a 2.5 hr historic walking tour of Dublin's city center. Several thousand years of history with revolutions, art, technological inventions (such as the pneumatic tire and the formula for calculating 3D images), religion, invasions, government (wait I just said that), architecture...what a fascinating place.
I can't give you photos we took because I'm not using my mobile to capture them, but you'd probably be bored by seeing a slide show of my Full Irish Breakfast (eaten for lunch) and a bunch of old stones piled on each other (just a really old wall).
Tomorrow we go into the countryside on this tour: newgrangetours.com Should be fantastic!
Oh, btw, I hear our kids are doing well with the family back home. Only 28 (ish) hours in and we're having a fantastic time!
G'night!
Edit: My mobile didn't work with our hotel wifi, so I'm publishing this Thursday morning from the tour bus! What a thoughtful idea for them to include wifi.
