When You Don't Drink in Dublin

After a 10 hour overnight flight, we had a 3 hour layover in Paris. 

To be in Paris yet stuck inside an airport is kind of cruel.

We did eat a croissant though and that felt good.

Kids sleeping everywhere

We'd left Utah at 5 pm, arrived at Charles deGaulle (please say that with a Parisian accent because it makes it so much better) at 10:45 a.m. French time but didn't leave until after 2. 

We arrived in Dublin about 3:30 p.m. (8:30 a.m. Utah time. I'm not sure why its so important to me to keep track of all these times, but its kind of the fun of traveling internationally. It's like a game!)

Our shuttle driver was the best! He'd actually driven Connor McGregor before which made the Adair's super excited. He also gave us a list of great activities in Dublin, including tour of Guiness and another distillery which the best part was free samples. When we told him we didn't drink he said, "It's very seldom I'm speechless. But I don't know what to say." 

You had to be there.  It was hilarious. 

He also said the Dublin's gone fecking donut crazy. Which was also hysterical and I kept wanting to say fecking because it doesn't sound like a swear word to me and it was fun to say. For the emphasis.

Our hotel. U2 used to own it. So that was cool.

Our hotel overlooked the River Liffey

We stayed in the Temple Bar district which was a great because there was so much nightlife.
We discovered it can be tricky to seat eight people in a restaurant.
O'Briens was a pub that our driver recommended, but it was full our first night.
We ended up finding a burger place that was delicious.

Temple Bar district 

After dinner we walked around the district with a million other people and peeked in souvenir shops. It was kind of like a big party. One game we came across was the chance to see if you could hold onto this bar for 100 seconds. If you made it, you win 100 Euro. Nobody could do it. Coincidentally, Chris had just tried this at home at a carnival so he knew the bar spins and its much harder than it looks. It was fun to hang out and watch.

The Ha'Penny bridge. I had the hay penny song stuck in my head the rest of the trip. Actually just the end of the song because I couldn't remember the beginning. 

...If you haven't got a penny than a hay penny will do. 

If you haven't got a hay penny, then God bless you!