Dublin days

I'm back online, after that brief stint of fight-for-your-e-mail time in Amsterdam :)

After getting up at 3:30 a.m., Maddie insisted on taking a cab to the airport instead of taking the bus as we'd planned. I'm not sure what went wrong in her mental construction, but for some strange reason she's just not wired for public transportation. It makes her all nervous and shifty. Anyway we took a cab, only to find that Amsterdam's is probably the worst-designed airport in the history of aviation. The desks are all laid out like islands in the middle of a large room, with "lines" snaking all around the place (more like funnels really, with everybody pushing and shoving around the room, eventually lining up as barriers force the masses of people to form the shape of lines.)

Eventually though, we arrived in Dublin. Our bags, however, did not. They probably ended up in Copenhagen, where we changed planes. Hopefully, though, they'll send them to our hostel soon; my hat and gloves are in there and it's quite cold. Our hostel is pretty hostile, there's not a lot going on here, so I hope they don't like take our bags hostage or something. But hey, we're in IRELAND, so things can't be that bad! I walked around downtown Dublin tonight after a nap, things are pretty cool. I can't wait to see more of it tomorrow. More later ~ cheers!