End of Europe and New Beginning

Once in Dublin we stayed at the same hostel Brendan had stayed at while he was there earlier on his trip, which meant he played tour guide for me. The first evening we wandered around a bit and just enjoyed a nice meal at a Irish pub nearby.

The next morning we toured Trinity College. It ended up being a very interesting tour and allowed us to see Book of Kells, which is a famous 9th century gospel manuscript.

Of course the first thing I needed to do was to get a scone and have some coffee:

We ate our scones here, I wondered whether Kristin used to go running here :)

After that we had lunch at the Ginger Man, a pub that Kristin went to quite often while living in Dublin.

Later on we wandered over to Temple Bar and perused that part of town. The rest of the day was spent relaxing as it was our last night.

Do you know how many countries I tried to see this movie in??


Goodbye Europe!

Once we made it back into the United States I had a great weekend with the girls before heading to North Carolina to visit the parentals for a week or so. It was great to have the time to relax and catch up on some much-needed sleep after the travels. My mom and I also did some test driving of cars as LC was not the most practical car for the city. We decided on the Subaru Forester and now CC (citycruiser) has joined our family.

My mom, dad and I flew back to Chicago last Thursday afternoon and headed up to Oshkosh, WI to see the EAA Airshow both Thursday evening and Friday. One of the highlights was seeing the 787 Dreamliner land and see it up and personal Friday morning. Saturday mom and I went out and bought CC and the rest of the day got pretty busy, but we met up with the rest of the family for dinner in the South Loop. Sunday we went sailing with Jack, Jules, Dixie and Troy and had dinner on the boat. All in all a very relaxing weekend!

I was told I would be given my start date some time soon for Accenture so I'm looking forward to hearing more details!