Cork to Dublin

On Sunday we got up early and walked to a nearby church to go to mass.  I don't remember exactly what it was but I feel like the mass was a little weird.  Like people didn't know the responses or couldn't come to a consensus on whether they were going to stand or kneel at various parts or something.  It was still mass though.  And when we finished there we grabbed some lunch to take with us on our trip to Dublin.  I felt like I was creating a new sport walking to the bus stop.  I had my backpack on my back and my duffle bag across my shoulder and I was wheeling my big suitcase in one hand while holding a fountain drink in the other.  And of course it was raining.  It was quite the accomplishment just making it to the bus stop.  But make it we did.  And then we were off to our next and final destination.  Dublin.

It wasn't too long of a trip but that was only part of the job we had in getting to our hotel.  We had looked up directions from the bus stop to the hotel and knew it would be a bit of a hike but we had each found different directions and therefore became lost and confused after awhile.  Just when we began to turn around and retrace our steps and try a different route a guy came up to us and asked us if we were lost.  It was rather obvious that we were.  But he was nice enough to point us in the right direction and we had not been too far off course after all.  We were quite tired though after dragging our luggage around for almost a half hour to find the hotel.  But it was nice and new looking and the room was a decent size and comfortable.  But we couldn't spend a bunch of time just sitting in the room.

So we picked up a map and head out toward what was supposed to be a main shopping area in the city.   As far as souvenir shopping went we really only seemed to have one choice though.  There were a ton of the same shop located in various places throughout the city.  And not usually too far from one another.  Nothing was open too late though since it was a sunday so we weren't really sure what we were going to do.  We had just begun thinking about getting something to eat when it started raining for real.  It's always drizzling, but this was a real downpour.  So we hurried into the nearest restaurant and got a quick little something and waited for the rain to stop.  It didn't really so we decided to go back to a movie theater we had stopped by earlier and opted to see battleship.  It was pretty good and the theater was cool.  There were a lot of seats and it was one of the screens where the curtain goes up before the show and all that.  We even splurged on some popcorn.  It was a rather enjoyable night.

The rain had let up after we got out of the movie and then it was back to the hotel. The first half of the walk was through a well populated area and then came the sketchier part where there wasn't really much around and it was really dark.  But we got back and nothing happened so it's all good.  And it was off to bed before our final day in Europe.  It was hard to believe that that could be possible after more than 3 months over there.