Goodbye Ireland! (September 9)

The only thing on our agenda for the day is the Natural History Museum of Dublin. For the rest of the day, we just planned to wander through the city! 

 Natural History Museum of Dublin - Dome

Natural History Museum of Dublin

 The White House was modeled after/inspired by this!

 Ireland!

 St. Stephen's Green (again - I really liked it!!)

Nap time in the park again. :)

A little more Grafton Street

THEN it was time to take the bus to the plane to the train to the taxi to get home!

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To Everyone Who Will Ever Travel With RYANAIR:
When they say to print your boarding passes, PRINT YOUR BOARDING PASSES!!! Why, you ask? Well, they're happy to print them for you at the airport - for a fee of 60 EUROS!! Luckily I had saved mine as a PDF and sent it to Romain over Facebook so I was able to do a self-print from their computers, but the guys didn't have the PDFs so they had to pay 60 Euros each. RIDICULOUS!
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So anyway, we took the bus, ran to the plane after the check-in fiasco, hopped on the train, called a taxi...and finally...I arrived back to my flat in Glasgow. :)

 Such happy campers

 Exhausted!!

Guinness (September 8)

Rise and shine, it's Guinness time! If you're in Dublin, you don't really have a choice - especially if you're traveling with guys. My bad, MEN. MEN, who drink GUINNESS. Because Guinness Is Good For You. Okay, okay, moving on. :) Enjoy the pictures!

Barrels & barrels & barrels

After we toured the Guinness Factory, we got to go up to the Gravity Bar and get a free pint of Guinness. The Gravity Bar had an amazing view of Dublin! And it was quite the friendly, social environment - but then again, I guess that's what you get when you give everyone free alcohol!

 View from the Gravity Bar

Before...

Proof!!!! Looks like I'm enjoying it, huh? 

Aaaaand, after!

 "Take a picture where we look drunk!" Crazies.

Guinness Models

St. Patrick's Cathedral

 Shamrocks on all the lampposts :)

 St. Patrick's Cathedral

Park by St. Patrick's Cathedral - We were a bit tired, so we decided to sit in the park and relax for a bit. 

 ....Then we woke up, 2 hours later! AMAZING NAP.

Then we carried along. :)

Pet stop - Hung out with these guys until we saw snakes & spiders - SEE YA, pet shop!

Then we decided to go on the pub crawl advertised by the youth hostels - similar to the one I went on in London. It was all in the Temple Bar area and sounded like fun!

 Our second bar was showing the USC vs. Syracuse football game. So rather than socializing, my eyes were peeled to the screen...beside all the other guys in the bar, haha. Apparently girls don't like sports here!

 Irish pub with Irish music!!

Long story short, the guys didn't quite keep up with the pub crawl so I was on yet another pub crawl alone. So, I met these girls and hung out with them the rest of the night! :)