We're Here!

After eight long hours of travel, we finally made it to Ireland! We left O'Hare at 6:30pm (Chicago time) and landed in Dublin at 8am (Dublin time). Neither of us got much sleep, but the flight went by pretty fast. They gave us a couple of decent meals and showed a few movies. To our surprise and dismay, it was snowing when we landed and hasn't stopped since. After going through immigration, we stored our unreasonably large pieces of luggage at the airport and took a bus to the city centre. We wandered the city like zombies for a few hours, and now we're relaxing at the hostel (which we successfully found after some wrong turns). So far, the people in Ireland are really friendly and, of course, we love the accents. (Sorry, Grandpa, we haven't found our husbands yet.) We've gotten some funny looks- not only for our crazy rain boot/adidas pant combination (which, as my dad says, makes us look like "a couple of tools")- but also because we are lost (or "exploring the city" as Erin says) 50% of the time. Hopefully we'll do better after a full night of sleep.
Well, that's it for now! We'll write again soon.
-Katie