Recap: Days Two Through Seven

I have been a bad blogger lately. So I'm going to try and make up for that. Normally when I am online, I'm talking with my friends (that I miss very much). Anyway. this is all copied from stuff I had written down.

Dublin, Day Two:

We took a bus tour. It was a "hop-on hop-off" bus. So we took the whole tour first, and then "hopped-off" at Dublin Castle. It was cool. The best part was the remnants of the Powder Tower. The Castle burnt down and was rebuilt at some point. Don't ask me when. I don't remember.

After Dublin Castle, we walked over to Christ Church. I'm not a big fan of "touring" churches (we didn't really tour, we walked around it). They all basically do the same thing, some are just bigger or older or of a different denomination. I'm more fascinated with how they built the churches back when they had no machinery. That is very cool. I tend to get bored with places like churches and museums rather quickly. I'm the only person I know that groans when someone suggests (when I'm in New York) going to the Met. It's like they just said, "Let's go stab ourselves in the eyes with needles." Okay, so maybe it's not THAT bad. But still...

On the other hand, the Guinness Storehouse was amazing. It was really awesome--even if we did sort of get lost getting to it. There's a big fountain as you walk in, and like any fountain, the bottom was flooded with coins. We look over and see a kid, maybe six or seven years old, standing in the water taking money! I wonder what happened to him. No one was saying anything. It was quite amusing.

That night we went to the area of Dublin called Temple Bar, named after Sir William Temple. It's where all the street performers go and stuff. Really cool place. Well, we went to a restaurant called "La Med". I had a cheeseburger, and basically died. There were onions ground in with the beef and I didn't know that. Basically, I was poisoned. It was bad. Later that night we went to Bewley's for dessert! That was good. Irish ice cream is amazing. It was very good.


Dublin, Day Three:

We hit up Kilmainham Gaol (Jail) today. It was wicked, wicked, wicked cool. I loved it. U2 filmed a video in the jail's East Wing. I thought that was awesome. I have become obsessed with U2 ever since I went to Dublin. I'm excited about that, though.

We walked over to the Irish Museum of Modern Art. It was weird. I didn't care for it at all. We took a taxi back to our hotel. My parents went somewhere, and I decided to check out a guitar store. Unlike American guitar stores, you can't just plug in and play. They keep the good guitars (Fenders and Gibsons) locked up or behind the counter. I didn't feel like asking to play them because I like my guitars better, and they probably wouldn't have let me because I wasn't seriously interested in buying one. They are wicked expensive, too! An American Standard Strat was 900 Euro! That's like $1500! They're $900 in the States (not that $900 is cheap)! Ridiculous.

We hit up Temple Bar again. This time we went to a reknowned Irish pub (actually, it was a "boxty house") called Gallagher's (Gallagher's Boxty House, to be specific). It was very good. I had a cheeseburger that was onion-free, and a dessert that was to die for. We sat next to these two very friendly Canadians.

That was that. We returned to the hotel and slept.


Dublin, Day Four:

We decided to go out to Malahide and see Malahide Castle. So we took the DART (Dublin Area Rapid Transit) out there. It was about a half-hour ride. It was also a lengthy walk from the station to the castle. It was a very pretty walk, though. The castle itself was very cool. But what was even cooler than the castle was the playground a little ways back. It was the coolest playground ever. Ever ever ever ever. I'm still in love with it.

And for the third night in a row, we went to Temple Bar. Shocker! Haha, only this time we did something aside from eat. We did a Pub Crawl. You go to a few pubs, and listen to Irish musicians. They play music and talk about the history of it. Then at the end they ask if anybody wants to/can play music. So I did. I played "Blackbird" and "Day Tripper". It was cool. then we ate a place called THUNDER ROAD Cafe!!! Thunder Road! Bruce! It wasn't too good, but still..BRUCE!


Copenhagen, Day Five:

We landed in Copenhagen at around 2 PM local time, and went straight to our hotel. A little while later we called up Steph. She came over around 6, I believe. We ate dinner and walked around the city center. We didn't do anything. The plan was to find a pastry shop, but we didn't. The three of us thought Steph knew where some good places were in the area, but she didn't. So we walked. And walked. And walked. Eventually we walked so much that we ended up back at our hotel. It was an uneventful day.


Copenhagen, Day Six:

We got off to a late start today. So late that I missed breakfast. Even in Copenhagen it rains. It rained today. It rained more today than it did in any day in Dublin..funny. We took yet another bus tour. It was a "hop-on hop-off" tour as well. So we "hopped-off" at another castke, and the Little Mermaid statue. Then we headed back to the hotel, rested, got ready, etc... And then we met up with Steph.

Tivoli Garden is one of the coolest places in the world. It was Walt Disney's inspiration for Disneyland. It was wicked awesome. The rides are so cool. There was one that was a combination of the Flying Trapeze and a slower version of the Dragon's Descent (there was a a real Dragon's Descent there, too). It was awesome. There was an upside-down rollercoaster and a bunch of other cool rides. Steph and I sampled a bunch. We also got homemade cotton candy. It was gooooood.

Steph went back to her place, and we went back to the hotel. It was a fun night.


Copenhagen, Day Seven:

We got up early today! And took another bus tour. We "hopped-off" at the Danish Resistance Museum (basically a mini Holocaust museum). It was very interesting. We also "hopped-off" at the Royal family's palace. We just walked around the grounds.

It was very sunny today! Well, until 3ish. Then it rained for a bit. We went over to Steph's exhibition. It wasn't just hers. It was the whole DIS's (Danish Institute of Design's) summer program exhibition. It was really cool. Steph won an award for her glassblowing, but would you expect anything less?

We took a bus (just a regular bus this time) back to the hotel. And now I'm here.

And now I'm not.