I left off saying it was after midnight last night, and we were heading up to our room. Well the room we rented in this bed and breakfast was room #420. the rooms stopped in the 300's so we were like greattt, now what? We finally found our way to the room after looking down every hallway on the "4th" floor, which only listed rooms starting with 300. We were literally in the attic. The B&B owner's Christmas decorations were stored up there along with an old couch and old set of kitchen chairs. We were sharing a room with 6 other girls. I slid my key card and pushed the door and it didn't open, so I did it again...still it would not budge even though the light had turned green each time. We were about to go downstairs after each of us tried a few times to get in the door. Then Shasta decided to knock, come to find out, the other 'room mates' had locked us out! it was only midnight-ish, but I guess they were all asleep because the room was pitch black, and she looked less than thrilled to be answering the door for us. We got our bags and went into the bathroom and got ready for bed, trying to be quiet, but it was really hard in the attic since it echoed and made funky noises. We each found our beds (the only two left), and fell asleep.
We were up at 7, again trying to be quiet in the pitch black room. We made it to the breakfast, luckily it was more than corn flakes and warm milk (and Shasta did not spill this time!). They had beans, eggs, bacon, sausage, hash browns, cereal, fruit, coffee, juice and toast, traditional Irish breakfast they claim. It wasnt too bad.
We bundled up and started walking toward the Dublin Zoo. A bar tender in a pub we stopped into last night for some traditional Irish music told us it was about a 15 minute walk. Wrong. It was about an hour and a half, I don't know if by run he meant sprint, but no human being could have walked there in 15 minutes, not even 30. Oh, and I should mention that it was -5 degrees Celsius, so about 23F this morning. Once we got to the zoo we quickly learned that the animals didn't like the weather either so they were all hiding. We saw some monkeys, flamingos, California Sea Lions, a lion, a few tigers, penguins, giraffes and elephants basically all in their little houses, and we had to try to see them through the frosted over windows. It was an adventure to say the least, but still fun. All the animals woke up about the time we were leaving because we could hear all of the monkeys like talking to one another, it was so funny!
We left the zoo, and headed toward the Castle. Of course it was closed for a meeting for 3 more hours, so we snapped some pictures and then headed back through random streets of Dublin. We made it to the bus earlier than we planned and made it to Limerick in time to catch some dinner (good ole Mc Donalds). Then came back to the school, unpacked all of the clothes and made it a little homier in here than it was. The heat has turned off so of course it is freezing in here already. Time for bed...
Cliffs of Moher tomorrow! (finally)
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