Joshua and Tyler were to meet at the Newark (NJ) airport for their 9:30p flight to Dublin. Joshua flew out from DCA (thanks Kristy and Jenie!), and Tyler flew out of O'Hare through Omaha where we had our first stories of the trip.
Joshua's side:
I arrived at NJ at 6 and was supposed to meet up with Tyler after his flight landed at 7:15. I waited and waited for him to get here so we could have our dinner date, but he stood me up. Depressed and disappointed, I had no choice but to eat at McDonalds (yeah, it was that bad) alone. When I came back to gate C80, I received a message...
Tyler's side:
My flight from Omaha to O'hare left about 20-30 minutes late and the layover was supposed to be 30 minutes, but I only had 10. I ran over to the next gate, they told me the flight was about to leave so I had to rebook and got a direct flight to Dublin which arrived at 9am, the same time it would take if we left at Newark. We did not bring any pagers/phones at all, so I told them to send a message to JW that I couldn't make it with him and will meet him at Dublin instead.
So JW was relieved about the news (proving that we can do just fine without pagers) on our trip. One good thing about it is that we had time to sleep instead of chatting during the flight losing sleep!
We met up in Dublin, and our friend Ronan Dunne was there to pick us up and bring us to his lovely home. We found out that Ronan had six siblings - three brothers and three sisters, and he was the oldest of them all, the family was very welcoming to us, and we are grateful already for only their first day of hosting us.
Once we got settled in, we went straight to the neighborhood pub and had a pint of Guinness. We then agreed right there that we will never drink Guinness in America ever again. It was that good! We then explored Dublin a bit.
We look forward to the rest of the week in Dublin where we will explore some more of Dublin, and visit ABCD - Antrim, Belfast, Cork, and Doolin!
hey you both - came across this link on BBC, maybe youd want to check out some of the buildings that are in europe
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Thanks for the link, we will try to check those buildings out. We especially like the one at the Netherlands
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