July 13- Goodbye Ireland

I’m very sad that we had to leave Ireland today. This is definitely a country I want to come back to someday (although to be honest I want to go back to every country we’ve visited). There’s so much more to see and do, and I just really love the country here. I have yet to see the Cliffs of Moher and the Giant’s Causeway, so I think that will be my excuse to come back in the future.

Today I didn't really do too much. It’s hard for me to do stuff in European cities because nothing opens until noon. I’m definitely a morning person, and I just want to get up and go in the morning. But it’s kind of pointless because there isn’t much to do or see except walk around the streets. Anyways, Courtney and I took a shuttle into Dublin around mid-morningish. We went to a café and shared a plate of thee most delicious blueberry pancakes I’ve ever had in my whole life. And I’ve had some good pancakes, so these were pretty phenomenal. Afterwards we went to this little ice cream shop called Murphy’s Ice Cream. She had stopped there a couple of days ago and insisted that I HAD to try their ice cream. I was not disappointed.

The workers were super friendly, and they let us sample almost every kind of ice cream. After much debate, I decided on getting a hot brownie with one scoop of rolled oats and one scoop Irish coffee. Needless to say, it was delicious. I’m definitely making oatmeal ice cream when I get home!

Heaven on a plate.

We only had a few more hours in Dublin, so Courtney and I found a Starbucks to get some wifi. After we were able to do all of our internet stuff, we went down into the Temple Bar area one last time. Courtney hadn’t made it to the actual Temple Bar yet, so we stopped there and got an awesome picture with a leprechaun (which my roommate has on her camera unfortunately). We then realized that neither of us had tried an Irish coffee yet, so we ordered on and split it. Yum!

Temple Bar

Courtney and I with our Irish Coffee
And a random guy photobombing us!

Then we caught one of the last shuttles to the ship and got on board. We had dinner, and now I’m about to start studying for my architecture midterm tomorrow (yikes). I have a religions midterm the next day and a couple of papers to write. So until later…