Spend the Afternoon. You can't take it with you.

I was still very tired from yesterdays trip but I set my alarm for 7:30am. I got ready and had a cab take me to Grafton Street. Grafton street is a famous shopping area.





I didn't shop there because the rumor is that everything is really expensive. Instead I walked the whole way down the street just to say I was there, and that end of Grafton is St. Stephen's Green. It's a beautiful park (I guess comparable with Central Park but a lot smaller) and there were ducks and a swam swimming around.




After I looked around there for a little while I walked across the road to St. Stephen's Green Shopping Center. It was 3 floors and very nice. I had a little breakfast pasty thing with chocolate chips and did a bit of shopping.





When you buy stuff and you're not from the EU they give you a little thing stapled to your receipt that you fill out and put into an envelope. When you go through customs you put the envelope into a box or something and they will send you money back. There is a VAT tax here of like 20% or something so I'll get a god chunk back.

After I left the mall I went to a little store on Grafton that sells papers and magazines and such. I got newspapers for Poppy and Becky. I also got a big bottle of water and a sandwich for lunch. It's a strange sandwich : ham and coleslaw. It's not bad though... but it's a cheap way to eat haha.

So I got back about 12:30 and ate half the sanwich and took a nap. I woke up again st 6:30, lol. I guess I was more tired that I realized. Now I'm just watching TV and sorting my gifts and such. I ate the rest of my sandwich and am just relaxing.

I feel like I should be out seeing Dublin but I'm just not interested in it... maybe if I liked bars. It's nice to just relax though. Vacations are supposed to be relaxing after all and tomorrrow will be another long day.

County Cork!! I'll be kissing the Blarney Stone. ^_^

Also, I've found something of extreme interest. The lady at Carroll's Irish Gift Store gave me a map of Dublin (even though I had one already) and it's got some ads on it. One was for Ghostbus. I'm going on the tour Saturday at 9:30pm.

(http://194.106.151.179/sightseeing/ghostbus.aspx)

The site says:
Dublin Tour - GhostBus
Let us put you at your unease on the world's only Ghostbus, and introduce you to the dark romance of a city of gaslight ghosts and chilling legends.

The bus itself is a unique attraction, it is a mobile theatre decorated in the gothic style and features a live storyteller who takes you on a spellbinding trip through Dublin. Once onboard, we take advantage of this atmospheric setting to spirit you away to a world of felons, fiends and phantoms and put you in the mood for being both charmed and spooked at the same time.

En route you learn the real origins of Dracula and his Dublin born inventor, Bram Stoker. We stop at the College of Physicians to recreate the strange activities of Dr. Clossy, whose spirit is still seen walking the corridors carrying a bucket of human entrails. We visit the site where Walking Gallows, the notorious judge, jury and hangman dispatched his victims in a most gruesome fashion.

This tour may not suit those of a nervous disposition!

Tour Highlights:
• Theatrical experience with professional actors
• snatching in St Kevin's Graveyard
• Visit the Haunted Steps
• Discover Dracula's Dublin origins


What seems the coolest to me is the Dracula part and this:
St Audoen's and the Forty Steps
This is one of Dublin's best kept secrets, few people get to pass through the ancient gates of this most haunted place. It is situated in the heart of what old Dubs used to call 'Hell' where tales are told to this date about mysterious lepers, ghostly bells and Dublin's notorious Hellfire Club. Please do not be surprised if a supernatural phenomenon occurs in this place, we are used to it!!!

Anyway, check out the site and I'll be posting some pretty cool pictures tomorrow night.