The Luck of the Irish.

It's almost time for Turkey Day! It's a cold Sunday here, lots of refreshing rain! Sorry it's been a while since I've updated. I've been working very hard on all of my coursework so that I can have some time to relax and enjoy the last few weeks that we're here. Today we went to a church in Ormskirk and enjoyed it a lot. Very traditional, and there's also an earlier service that they said was "happy clappy" (lots of kids) so we might try that one next time. After church, since the dining hall on campus is only open from 11-12 and 5-6 on sundays, we stopped by subway to enjoy a toasted sub :). Now we're just sitting in the library catching up on news and enjoying the warmth. I'm listening to wonderful Christmas music right now. I can't believe in 32 days we'll be celebrating another Christmas! Time has really flown by here.

Well, I got another stamp in my passport! We headed to Ireland early yesterday morning. I'm pretty sure we were one of the first flights out. We had a really nice taxi driver on the way to the airport, so it made the early ride a bit more fun. Once we figured out how to get to the centre of the city, we headed to a cafe mentioned in my Let's Go! book that Chris and Ashley gave me. It had the best scones in the world. Not that I've eaten every scone in the world, but they were really tasty. I had an apple-cinnamon scone with a hot chocolate. It tasted just like fall. We walked all through the city and got to see Trinity College (the "Irish Oxford"), St. Patrick's Cathedral (a graduation was being held though, so we didn't get to go inside), the Guinness Storehouses, Dublin Castle, and a had a wonderful Irish meal at a pub. After walking around a few shops we headed back to the airport for our flight back to Liverpool. I didn't see as many redheads or sheep as I anticipated, but Ireland was definitely a great trip!

Oh and to everyone who doesn't know, I dyed my hair darker. Hope you'll still be my friends after!

My new hair!

Dublin!

Trinity College. Tried to go in the cool super old library, but apparently you have to pay 8 euros to read. 

St. Patrick's Cathedral. They were doing construction on the tower.

At the Guinness Storehouses in front of the Christmas tree!

Christmas time is here!!!!

Free pint of Guiness + me being goofy.

Dublin Castle

The throne in the room where the president gets inaugurated. 

A sitting area in the Palace. It's decorated really pretty so I thought I'd put a picture up.

Bar where we had yummy dinner.

Lauren and me in front of the lit up Christmas tree in the city centre!