31 days left!

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Tue May 13, 2008 2:34 pm

Until I board a flight bound for Dublin. Yeah...I'm a bit excited, which is why I'm sharing

::dances around the pub for a bit::

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Tue May 13, 2008 3:49 pm

I hear it's pretty rough over there.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Tue May 13, 2008 5:09 pm

Walden wrote:I hear it's pretty rough over there.

The Izz can take 'em. Not to worry.

Azalin · Post by **Azalin** » Tue May 13, 2008 5:12 pm

I never heard of someone being that excited to go to Ohio but yeah those farmers and sheep can be a bit rough

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Tue May 13, 2008 5:18 pm

Azalin wrote:I never heard of someone being that excited to go to Ohio but yeah those farmers and sheep can be a bit rough

Hey!!! They have a really great Irish festival in Dublin...and they're not all that rough if you know how to handle 'em

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Tue May 13, 2008 5:20 pm

Azalin wrote:I never heard of someone being that excited to go to Ohio but yeah those farmers and sheep can be a bit rough

No, it is rough there. Locals pronounce chimney "chimley," and restaurants with names like Der Alpine Alpa specialize in fried foods and being home to the "World's Largest Cuckoo Clock."
Oh, and if you want to see it? You have to fork over a dime and pass through a turnstile. That's after about the worst meal you ever ate. And you get up there and it's lame.
Still, I bought a mug, because I couldn't imagine anything dorkier and I wanted to commemorate it.

Oh, but as for the other Dublin...I was there once, in 1981. With my parents and family. We got to spend one whole day in Ireland because the air traffic controllers had gone on strike which hacked about 5 days off our trip. Then we flew to London.
Mainly I remember sitting in a department store with my sister (she was 20, I was 19,) and a couple of American boys spotted us and outed us as Yanks. They could just tell, they said.

djm · Post by **djm** » Tue May 13, 2008 5:55 pm

Coulda bin Cleveland.

djm

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Tue May 13, 2008 6:19 pm

emmline wrote:
Oh, but as for the other Dublin...I was there once, in 1981.

Now she tells me..

Slan,
D.

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Tue May 13, 2008 8:31 pm

I was just thinking of this tonight, wondering if it wasn't almost time for
THE TRIP!

You've gotta keep me posted 'cause I don't think I'll ever get to make it myself.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Tue May 13, 2008 9:47 pm

cowtime wrote:I was just thinking of this tonight, wondering if it wasn't almost time for
THE TRIP!

You've gotta keep me posted 'cause I don't think I'll ever get to make it myself.

I'm going to take loads of pictures

My mom very graciously sent me a camera she received when she took her early retirement (read "retire now before we lay you off"). She said she would never use it, so I could have it for Ireland. It's way nicer than mine, which was a dinosaur, and smaller. I'm still a bit leery of the flying bit, but I'll have to get over that one quickly, I think

It still hasn't really hit me yet....I don't have the butterflies of excitement, LOL!

Redwolf · Post by **Redwolf** » Wed May 14, 2008 12:09 am

izzarina wrote:
cowtime wrote:I was just thinking of this tonight, wondering if it wasn't almost time for
THE TRIP!

You've gotta keep me posted 'cause I don't think I'll ever get to make it myself.
I'm going to take loads of pictures My mom very graciously sent me a camera she received when she took her early retirement (read "retire now before we lay you off"). She said she would never use it, so I could have it for Ireland. It's way nicer than mine, which was a dinosaur, and smaller. I'm still a bit leery of the flying bit, but I'll have to get over that one quickly, I think It still hasn't really hit me yet....I don't have the butterflies of excitement, LOL!

Mise fosta, a chara!

At exactly this time, exactly one month from now, barring flight delays, I'll be landing at Shannon. It still doesn't seem quite real...that after all this time planning and thinking about it, it's finally about to happen.

You'll do fine with the flying. Ná bí eagla ort!

Redwolf

avanutria · Post by **avanutria** » Wed May 14, 2008 2:30 am

Exactly one month from now and a day we'll be celebrating my birthday in Ballyvaughan!

(and I will either be very happy or very sad about the results of my written driving test three days before, hehe.)

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Wed May 14, 2008 4:18 am

izzarina wrote: I'm still a bit leery of the flying bit.

That's "flyingcursor" or "flydood" though "flyingbit" is OK I guess.

Cayden · Post by **Cayden** » Wed May 14, 2008 4:52 am

avanutria wrote:Exactly one month from now and a day we'll be celebrating my birthday in Ballyvaughan!

If you want music, make sure to go into Monk's on a sunday (around four-ish), either Brid O Donohue or Seamus Hynes playing there.

burnsbyrne · Post by **burnsbyrne** » Thu May 15, 2008 10:13 am

djm wrote:Coulda bin Cleveland.

djm

Nah, people in Cleveland don't talk like that. We sound like Detroit and Chicago. From Columbus south you start getting the influence of Applachia. They have chimbleys.
Mike