Looks Like We Made It!

We made it!

The flight and basically everything on our trip was uneventful. The kids did great. As expected, Maggie slept while Johnny stayed up for the ENTIRE flight! We arrived and got past a bit of interrogation from immigration (why are you here for five months and who is this woman you are with?) and headed to the taxi line. Our driver was a great first impression of Dublin, joking all the while and driving us past the U2 studios. Sheila had basically memorized the map so navigated our way straight to our place.

I don't do jet lag well, so basically got the luggage in the doorway and went to bed while Maggie set up her room and John was fascinated by everything, running all over the place. Not tired at all.

About four hours later I woke up with everyone sleeping and wondered: how and where will we get food? How and where will we get internet? and how will we get there? and the ever "what in the h. e. double hockey sticks are we doing????"

I rumbled around enough to wake everyone up to go forage.

We are basically in a suburb of Dublin which I described to people as "Edina" before we came over here. It is supposed to be a "fancy" suburb and I suppose it is, but from the street it doesn't look so nice (after a proper night's sleep I will post pictures). But it is darling once you reframe. Ireland tends to be grey. Once in the house though (and I suspect all the houses), it is gorgeous.

We walked down the block and realized quickly that we are about 6 blocks from the heart of a little town called "Blackrock" which has everything you need: takeout Thai, pizza, their version of 7-11, and even a Starbucks that looks out over the Dublin Bay (pictures too are forthcoming as I'm sure we'll be back).

We headed straight to a restaurant for food and the O2 shop for cheap phones and internet.

We got two phones that essentially can only call each other for "everyone" and you'd think the kids had died and gone to heaven (neither have phones at home, but both either have or have regular access to an itouch that has a bazillion times more capability than these cheap phones which, again, can only call each other so effectively are expensive walkie talkies).

It is 8 p.m. here and we are trying to stay up for a bit, unfortunately we won't be able to stay up for the Packer's game but we will be sure to see what happened first thing.

Night all!