So much happened then, and even more since then. The biggest development is the fact that I left my phone on a shuttle bus from the airport to our London hostel. I tracked outgoing calls from the phone online & found out a Polish man named Paul stole my phone while vacationing in the UK!! How I know this is a really long story that involves tracing back phone calls and speaking to another Polish man who gave me some information in broken English...
Anyway, I'm extremely lucky because Ashley and Katie let me use their phones that weekend, and Ashley ended up giving me an extra phone she had! I just had to buy a charger (20 euro) but that's a whole lot better than the 85 euro I thought I was out at the time. Now, I just have to convince every person I've met in Ireland that I haven't been intentionally ignoring them for a week. Hmmm...
London in itself was amazing-- I had the best Chinese and Indian food of my life (the Chinese was fantastic, and it was my first time with Indian). Took some beautiful pictures of the River Thames illuminated by the London Eye (an enormous, permanent ferris wheel next to Big Ben). Saw London Bridge (Tower Bridge), London Tower, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, the Peter Pan statue and Princess Diana Memorial at Hyde Park, Buckingham Palace, Platform 9 & 3/4, Westminister Abbey, Big Ben, Parliament, Greenwich Village, The Royal Observatory-home of the Prime Meridian-, Chinatown, and saw the play "Stomp!" performing at the Ambassador's Theatre in West End. But that's all.
I still have my 658 pictures to sort through and Trish,(most of you reading this know her but just in case) who is my roommate and really good friend, is coming to Ireland tomorrow!! She's staying with me in Dublin all week and I'm beyond psyched. Here's our itinerary so far:
sunday: pubs and stuff with friends, go into city centre until morning. hopefully meeting up with ali!
monday: wicklow mountains!! dinner in the city
tuesday: st patty's day!! dublin city centre to watch the parade and I booked us tickets to see a national hurling and gaelic football games at Croke Park!
wednesday: "recovery day" for Trish, too many classes and meetings for me.
thursday: showing trish around Leinster House (Irish parliament- love my internship btw, but that's for another post.) I'll try to get off early so we can spend the rest of the day hitting up the Guiness Factory or anything else we might have missed on Sunday. It's Katie's 22nd birthday today!! yay. Going out with her flatmates, boyfriend, his friend's, etc, to Andrew's Lane Theatre.
friday: bye trish :(.
And now I'll get back to the life that I so vividly depict in my posts.
Until next time (pictures still to come, really!! But hey I'll throw in a few because you've been so patient with me.)
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