Exploring we Go!

January 2, 2010 7:45 pm
Dublin is wonderful! I am starting to fall very much in love with this country all ready. Kristen and I started off our morning by waking up from our 13 hours of sleep (it was much needed!!). Right away we jumped up and headed out the door to explore the city! We literally and figuratively stumbled around Dublin. The sidewalks are icy and anyone who knows me realizes that I am not the most graceful person so i was slipping like crazy! We had no idea where we were going but that is a good thing! We had no schedule, no plans, and we loved every second if it. Each street we went down brought us a whole different environment. On one street there were performers, a magician, a "living" statue, and a man carving a cute puppy out of sand. Each street is filled with shops, pubs, and stores. For not knowing where we were going we did very well! We found a grocery store where we shopped. They don't use plastic bags here (something America needs to pick up!). Some of the brands are the same...we got some doritoes yumm! We also found cheap cheap cheap stores to shop in. They had boots for 9 Euros! Which would be about $12. And shirts that would equal out to be about $3.50. We also found St. Stephen's Green which is a beautiful beautiful beautiful park! It is about a mile walk that is amazing and wonderful. There are statues and fountains and a pond with duckies. Kristen and i found ourselves looking around in complete awe a lot. We have discovered that Dublin is the melting pot of Ireland, I have seen at least one person of each nationality and have heard so many languages today! The people are also SO friendly. We went to a restaurant and our Irish waiter just chatted with us and invited us to go to Salsa dancing on Saturday nights. Their machine to take credit cards didn't work and Pheona told us to just go down to the ATM, she trusted us to do that! You would NEVER find that in America! Everyone has a smile on her face all the time and a sense of pure happiness is in the air! I love every second I have spent in this city so far!!