Crunch Time

last week.

so much work

projects

designing

chefchaouen on the brain

and bulls, and wine and harry potter!!

chefchaouen, morocco

Lux City

An old friend from High School (Tommers!) wrote on my facebook a couple weeks ago saying that he had just been in Trier for dinner, had no idea that I was studying here, and that he was studying in a small village in Luxembourg. So of course I hopped on the train early friday morning and 45 minutes later we met up in Lux City. He had never really been there, since he was in a village outside it, so we explored together! We wandered around trying to find the Gründ, which was the one place I'd heard I needed to go to. Lux City was an old fortress town with walls and everything, but after all the wars and medieval times they started building all around the walls and in the valley, which is now the Gründ. The town is really cute and pretty, and we played on a playground and tried to stay in the shade since it was probably 85 without a cloud in the sky. Tommers remembered where a chocolate shop was so of course we had to go, and we tried all the little chocolates under the glass and they would start to melt the second you picked them up.

We met up with one of Tommers friends, Javo, who was also from Miami University, and searched for a place for lunch. We found a bistro, and after our lunch and our beers we revived the search for the Gründ. We found it pretty quick and walked down the narrow cobblestone road into the Gründ. We walked and walked and came to a dam where I had to stick my feet in. The water was so cold and wonderful, and it just felt like summer in Texas. That was my favorite part. The heat had drained our energy so we walked to a pub we'd passed on the way to the dam, and sat outside with another round of beers watching people walking over the bridge and listening to the plethora of languages being spoken under the shade of the umbrellas.

We went back to the train station and headed to his host family's home in Noertzange. His host mom, Dani, was ironing on the porch with her 3 year old, Sam, next to her playing with a bowl of water and squirt toys. Max, the next oldest son was so friendly and shook my hand and showed me all the instruments he played and a mini recital with each one. His mom told us it was his birthday tomorrow and he promptly invited us all to come because they were having burritos, and the Dani invited me to stay the night if I wanted. We played with the kids, and then left to take the train to the next village to see the chateau they study in. We came to Differdange and rain started pouring down. When we got to the castle soaking wet it was locked of course so we waited for the rain to let up and ran to the italian restaurant we'd passed for dinner. After dinner they took me to their usual bar where we ordered beer in the glass boots from Beerfest! We drank and played darts, while the barkeepers kids played computer games next to us and Michael Jackson played on the radio. I decided to stay the night, so that I could have burritos for the birthday brunch, and we headed home on the last train to Noertzange.

In the morning I went downstairs first, and helped Dani vacuum and prepare for all the family that was coming in for the party. We met the grandparents and aunts and uncles, and I learned a little Luxembourgish. We had burritos on the porch, and followed it up with some strawberry shortcake. I played with Sam, running away from his squirt guns and speaking in charades, faces and funny noises since he didn't know enlgish. It was time to leave and I gave everyone a big hug, and Dani invited me back anytime. Tommers, Javo and I got on the train to Lux City, and I annoyed them with my comments of how much I want to babysit for them. They came with me all the way back to Trier since there was a big annual Trier festival going on called Altstadtfest. There were rides and carnival food stands everywhere and stages in every square. Javo was meeting up with his german au pair that he hadn't seen since he was 4. Crazy. And Tommers and I went to eat at the only restaurant I've been to in Trier, but it's so cheap and good, and we needed to get out of the rain. We talked for 2 hours just eating and catching up. We met up with Javo and walked around a little more before they had to go back to the train station. It was so nice to see an old friend! And one more country down :p

Köln: chocolate&surfing

I'm heading up to Köln for tuesday and wednesday—my very first solo abroad trip. I'm couch surfing with a girl named Annika, and another couch surfer from Lithuania! I planned the trip from a spontaneous need to visit the chocolate museum they have up there. Excitment!

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Köln/Cologne was sooo fun! I arrived after a really nice train ride, I read a lot of my book and slept a little and saw all the cute little german villages in the hills. When I walked out of the train station I was greeted by the gigantic Dom cathedral. It's so impressive, and I walked all around it then off to the Ludwig museum, because I had no time to waste. It was a modern art museum with a really impressive collection! They had an entire room filled with Picasso's and other big names that I had studied in Art History. They even had a Louise Nevelson sculpture (one of my favorites!) and I felt like I was back home at the nelson atkins standing in front of Sky Cathedral. I stayed as long as I could and ran around at the end to try and see everything, but I had to get to the Chocolate Museum before it closed! So I walked along the Rhine until I came to the glorious building. The outside was surrounded with kids on field trips, and the air was perfumed with chocolate. I bought my ticket and received a complimentary lindt chocolate square, which was delicious, and perfect since you can't help but crave chocolate right when you walk in. I learned all about where the beans come from and the process of making the chocolate. After this there is a giant chocolate fountain and lady in a chef hat handing out wafers that she dips in the chocolate. I took one and headed up to see the packaging room—the part of the museum (minus the fountain) that I was the most excited about! There was packaging all the way back from the early 1900's when the first german chocolate company, Stollwerk, started, as well as the candy machines they initially used to sell bite size samples. Things that just take a designers breath away.. or maybe just mine.

Naturally, I went back to get another sample pretending like it was my first, and then went to the last room which was a rainforest immitation. They had the room set at an ungodly temperature and the humidity to the max, too, so right when I walked in the lens of my camera fogged up and sweat started flooding out of my pores. There was a pond and real cocoa plants growing in the room that took up 2 stories. I ended the dream at the gift shop where I got lots of treats and strange flavored chocolates to share with Annika and for souvenirs.

My next stop was at the biggest bookstore in Cologne and I bought a mystery book, and thumbed through a book solely dedicated to Lucas Podolsky <3>

Annika woke me up with a breakfast of rolls and nutella and frishkäse (cream cheese) and juice, and we laughed at the guy on the radio and talked about where we wanted to go before her class at 1. A vintage shop around the corner was the first stop, and it was so cool and we opened all the drawers in the random furniture to find secret things like fur hats, white gloves and feather boas, pirate eyes and gold! The next place was the gellato place that she said was the best ice cream in the world, so obviously we had to go. And it was. I got FERERRO ROCHE gelatto.. soooo freaking good. It was already almost one now, so we had to say goodbye and I felt like I was leaving a friend I'd had for years :( We got along so well, and I hope someday I can meet up with her again! I got to the train station with enough time to look inside the Dom and buy the coolest hollographic postcard of Köln. Such a good trip!

Father's Day

A globe’s distance from Dallas to Germany

is much shorter than you are from me

so fold half the map

and use just one tack

and together as pins we can be.

But pins can’t show love enough for me,

and I’m still stuck on this side of the sea

So hop on your boat

I’ll pray that it floats

and together again soon we will be.

From this picture till now I have not ceased looking up to everything you do. I don't know how I got so lucky, and I hope someday I can make you as proud of me as I am of you. Love you pops

xoxo

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Alles Gute Zum Geburtstag Jenns!! I'm so glad I've gotten to get to know you and travel around the europe with you so much! You're a lovely girl and I'm sorry everyone ate all your cupcakes before you got one..

Movie Making

"..here on the brink of a future in which human existence may find itself as tightly enveloped in digital environments as it is today in the architectural kind.." Julian Dibbell in a Rape in Cyberspace

Jenn and I are going to make a movie. My first stop-motion movie. It's going to be a horror movie based off of this article by Julian Dibbell. Its written in response to an even that happened in the MUD (multiple users dimension) Lambdamoo, " a very large and very busy rustic mansion built entirely of words." Lambdamoo is an internet game where a player can move through the rooms in this mansion by using computer commands and being greeted by a meticulous description of each new setting. Players can also talk amongst each other, and create objects that can be left in the room for the next virtual explorer to find.

The Intro to the article: "They say he raped them that night. They say he did it with a cunning little doll, fashioned in their image and imbued with the power to make them do whatever he desired. They say that by manipulating the doll he forced them to have sex with him, and with each other, and to do horrible, brutal things to their own bodies. And though I wasn't there that night, I think I can assure you that what they say is true, because it all happened right in the living room -- right there amid the well-stocked bookcases and the sofas and the fireplace -- of a house I came later to think of as my second home."

So we're going to make a horror stop-motion film in response to this article and the effect it had on the virtual world. How their laws and thoughts on how to govern this virtual community were questioned by one person, a character known as Mr. Bungle, and his surprising and horrifying actions. It spurred conversations between all kinds of online political groups of MOO anarchists, technolibertarians and parliamentarian legalist users began debating over the need for written rules, and perhaps even a governing body-since 4 months prior the head "wizards" decided to stop playing God and become only technicians, where the MOOers would need to solve their own problems (a movement know as the "New Direction"). These wizards are the only ones with the power to terminate an account, and with so many people asking for a virtual death penalty, questions of morals are brought into this new reality.

I think its fascinating technologically, politically and phsychologically. I hope we do our vision for the movie justice. And I'm excited to finally work with stop-motion. Here's just some stop-motion movies I've been watching for research:

Bruce Bickford (clay stop animations):
Dupree's Paradise

Stop Motion en Plastilina

Jan Balej (czech horror film animator):

One Night in a City movie

Jan Svankmajer (czech surrealist- stop animations with people and food)

Food Part 1

Food Part 2

Meat Love

Dungeons and Dragons

I woke up this morning and watched the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince trailer over and over, and got goose bumps 5 times. I'm so freakin excited for july, but I don't know if I'll be able to find a theater in Nice playing it in English..

Today I have to do layouts until I look like eric cartman at the end of the World of Warcraft episode. Which I watched last night. As I played MUD. Or lambdaMOO. Or we MUDed or MOOed? Whatever. But Jenn and I played the computer game of all computer games. Its one of the first text-based online virtual reality games where people from all over can be logged on simultaneously, and is played from you computer terminal. We started off with the tutorial and learned all the shortcut commands you have to type in to move or talk to people with. You can find a map of the "area" online, and you start out in the coat closet and then you type things like "north" "south" "up" or "down" to move to different rooms, and "examine ___" for descriptions on things. Once you enter rooms you also get descriptions of it; what's inside the room that other characters have created and left, the size of the room, the color on the walls, etc. Even though it is so nerdy, I can't help but respect it because of all the imagination that goes into it, and they definitely are not relying on the coolest graphics of the time. You can also make a description of yourself that people see when they "examine" the people in the room. And pick a name and one of the 8 genders.. hmm.. we picked plural.

I felt so nerdy, but at the same time I just wanted to draw pictures of these rooms they were describing and design some awesome map with the secret rooms that weren't on the map we'd found on the internet with all the commands. It was like I was 8 again mailing my brother letters from summer camp in our secret language..

productivity

I finished High Fidelity today at my favorite coffee shop. I ready the last chapter at top speed because a couple had arrived to the "make-out couch" as I like to call it and were using it to its full potential. gross

I've been frustrated lately with having lots of ideas and not being good at making them a reality. I wish I was better at drawing and making what I'm thinking visual. I did get a lot of sewing done the other day whilst sitting on my window sill watching the rain. It's been raining hard for days. I gave my cardigan a make-over with short sleeves and new snazzy buttons, fixed the arm on my grocery bag, tightened up the buttons on my favorite skirt and sewed up moth holes in 2 shirts :/

If the world was fair and we could pick our own nicknames, I think I'd like to be called Wendy like from Peter Pan..

part:KRAKOW

At the castle Namedy I got a crush on a boy, and decided to visit him in Krakow after hearing how awesome it was from Kuba, the boy, and bunches of other people. Pretty silly and spontaneous of me, because I wasn't planning on really ever going to Poland but I did now and I'm glad I did and glad I recruited Jenn to be adventurous with me. :)

We arrived to Krakow from London at 830pm ish, and Kuba was waiting with a friend and a borrowed car right outside. He hasn't passed his driving test after 2 tries now, but we couldn't say no to a free ride.. He took us to his friends apartment to drop her off and we went in and met her boyf and kuba's GIRLFRIEND. I know what you're thinking. How could he have never mentioned this. But as much as I want this post to resemble something I would have blogged about in 7th grade I'll just settle with this picture, and then say that I'm over it. obviously.

He dropped us off at one of the 300 bars krakow offers in the Jewish square, Kazimierz, which was called Baraka, and we had some traditional Polish drinks with a couple of Kuba's friends, Łukasz and Mihow(Michael), while he left to take back the car. Both guys had really good english and we had some good conversation, and they introduced us to Zwiecz (the polish beer) and 3 popular polish vodkas:

Wisniovia (cherry vodka that tastes 100% like cherry cough syrup- VERY popular)

Zoladkowa (vodka made with herbs and such)

Żubrówka (bison grass vodka) This one we didn't try, but Silke told me you can find it in Luxembourg and that it really is amazing.

A couple hours later Kuba caught back up with us and we all headed to Piekny Pies, one of the many clubs Silke had told me about before coming, and it ended up having horrible music and Jenn's phone got stolen, but we found a way to dance for an hour or so despite this. We left and headed to another club, down some stairs and into an underground room that felt a lot like it could have been an old dungeon back in the day. It was dubstep night which was fitting in this dungeon-like setting and we danced for hours feeling the bass shake our bones, and at one point I tried to teach Jenn how to 2-step.. I try. When we finally left (for Kuba's sake) we stepped out to a new day, it was 7am and raining, and we had no idea. We walked back to Kuba's getting soaked along the way, and people in the square were preparing and setting out things to sell for the sunday markets even though everything was getting rained on. We picked up some polish mushroom ramen on the way back, ate, and slept for hours.

When we finally woke up, Kuba left to take his girlfriend to the train station so Jenn and I went exploring and stumbled upon an old Jewish graveyard that was filled with gravestones. It was rainy which added to the creepiness and serenity of the walled in graveyard, and we tried to find the entrance without any luck. We kept walking until we found the market that was being set up those hours before and looked around and the rain soaked junk wishing we had money, or could at least pronounce what the money was called in Polish.. We went back to Kuba's after we realized we had forgotten to lock it, and then met up with Silke's friend, Anna, who I had talked to a few days before to arrange to get together. Anna was from Poland, but moved to the states with her parents and lived there 17 yrs and graduated from UT before going back. She was so cool.

We met up with her and walked to a big warehouse where the last day of a big photography exhibition was being held. It was really interesting and comprised of photos from Poland's government archives. The photos were all over the place ranging from pictures of different turnips with rulers for scale, inventory pics of jewish belongings left behind, and old personal pictures of army boys goofing off. We took the tram to her neighborhood and walked through a carnival going on in the field next to her apartment. The biggest field in europe allegedly. We got some greasy potatoes and mushrooms, and drank some beer with raspberry syrup which is my new favorite, and followed it up with a carnival ride that spun us in circles and making a little girl cry, and the three of us almost throw up. I laughed so hard I was crying most of the ride. We walked the rest of the way back to the Jewish Square, stopping at the Collegium Maius, one of the last surviving medieval colleges. It was awesome how much Anna knew about the history of everything—she was an amazing tour guide.

We made it to Pauza, another nice bar, and Kuba met us and from there we went to another place where I got more berry beer and we got to see Adam, another Krakow kid from the Castle project. Then we met up with more kids from their Art school at cafe Dym. Everything was closed because it was Sunday so we went back to Kuba's and stayed up talking about computer things and downloading cs4! The next morning we realized we hadn't eaten since the potatoes the day before so we headed to Kuba's favorite place to eat, a milk bar, which was just a grandma serving up home cooking, but we stuffed our faces with some polish specialties I'd never had before: pierogi, these fried potatoe and cheese patties, and stewed cabbage. My mouth is watering typing this.. We walked across the bridge to the other side of town that used to be a different city but merged a long time ago, and we walked all the way up to Krakus Mound, one of 5 man made hills legends say are tombs for kings where we saw all of Krakow in one rotation. It was really incredible, and we watched the hot air balloon full of tourists go up and down. We walked to the huge wawel castle through preserved medieval streets from there and saw the fire breathing dragon statue; one of Krakow's coolest stories in its history. On the way back to Kuba's we grabbed one of the Krakow must-haves, the Zapiekanka, a hot baguette sandwich with mushrooms, fried onions, cheese, ketchup and tzaziki sauce and chives. SO GOOD. We met up with Łukasz (from the beginning of the story) at a cafe with little secret rooms and couches and furniture, and followed him to his flat and met his girlfriend and had coffee and conversation about the fashion show he was putting on in a few days.

Last day. Jenn and I were on our own again the next late-morning so we nervously went to a restaurant for lunch, and used our tiny bit of polish and got lunch. We went back to the cemetery and found the entrance and while the rain started to pour and the lightning cracked we stood huddled under my umbrella standing in the middle of the graveyard and taking it all in..

It cleared up and we went to the Wawel castle with Kuba. Krakow was starting to grow on me and it was already time to leave. We met up with Anna again to say thanks and bye and give hugs, and then left for the airport. Kuba had seriously underestimated the time it took to get there with trains and trams so we ended up getting to the airport 20 min before our flight. Somehow we got in easily using our "we're going to cry a lot if you don't let us in" faces, and flew to london spent the night in the aiport then finally on to frankfurt in the morning.

Minus the Kuba sitch and me being too nervous to form sentences like a normal native english speaker, Krakow was a really interesting place and completely different from the obvious "pretty" europe I've been used to. Its a really well preserved old town, and we couldn't have gotten shown around town any better way.

Krakow: the "hidden jewel of europe".

Part: LONDON

So we arrived in London in the morning after a night without sleeping and running amuck in Dublin. Needless to say we were extremely tired, and we still had an hour and a half bus ride to get to the center of London. I used someone's last few minutes at an internet cafe in the airport to find a hostel, and then we came across our money saving strategy for the week; Boots. Boots was a store that was everywhere in london- kind of like a Walgreens- that had a meal deal for a sandwich, a side and a drink for 3£ so Jenn and I shared this for about 5 meals on the trip. This was also good because Jenn's card didn't work in London.. bummer

We finally got to the center of town, and were so tired that when someone handed us a flyer to a hostel right out of the bus station as well as a free shuttle to get there we jumped right in the shady white van without hesitation. False, we hesitated a lot and I prayed the whole way there that we wouldn't get sold into sex slavery, but we made it and it was cheap and the hostel people were really nice and even gave us our own room for the same price as the 8 bed room. We put our stuff down and slept for about 3 hours before finally leaving and exploring Jenn's dream city.

We had pre-ordered tickets to go see OBJECTIFIED on its opening day. We were too late to get tickets to the later one that had a Q&A with the director to follow the showing.. Oh well. It was still an awesome movie, and I thought about how much my dad would like it too while I was watching. It really cool and strange how our areas of expertise are overlapping nowadays. (He makes CNC Routers that are huge machines that can cut through all kinds of things for signs, furniture, etc.) We walked all over that part of town after the movie, liverpool and old street, just people watching all the young adults outside the pubs just after work. We got really lucky because London weather was beautiful while we were there. Then we took the Tube back to Notting Hill, where our hostel was, and found a thai restaurant where we spent the last of our pounds on a bottle of wine and a dish to share. We ended up talking to the table that was next to us who happened to be 2 engineering teachers from New Jersey who were leading a summer study abroad trip. They ended up pouring the rest of their wine in our glasses, which didn't help the strange conversation Jenn and I had previously been discussing:

If you were on Death Row and were choosing your last meal before your execution what would you choose. You get an appetizer, a main course with 2 sides, a dessert and a drink. Also, who did you kill and why?

We went to sleep that night with the light and tv left on and slept like babies.

The next night we spent the entire day in the Tate Modern! They really had some amazing pieces that I had seen in my art history books, and the whole thing being in a big warehouse was really neat too! We spent a good part of the day there, and an even bigger part in their gift shop, which was extremely fair priced! We had all our stuff with us because we had to move hostels, so we made our way to a different part of town, kings cross st pancras, and dropped it all off at the new place and took another nap. On our way out a guy from the hostel told us he had free tickets to a rock show at a bar down the road, so we said we'd be back in an hour from eating to join them. We searched for an ethnic restaurant like ethiopian or something, but settled on a bar with thai food because it was called the Queen's Head pub. (Which I just read about in High Fidelity!! He went to the same bar we did!!) It was really good and so was the Guinness and we were sad to leave while they were setting up for karaoke night..

The rock concert turned out to be real garage and real bad, but one of the bands was a little Muse-like and more bearable. Very novelty british though, so it was a good time. We left to get ready for Fabric, a dance club Jenn had heard about from friends, and we made a quick stop at an internet cafe where a huge black lady was skyping with a boy/just looking at him typing and vis versa and chatting with 5 people on aim and giggling a lot. Soo awesome.

We got to the club by using a night bus and found the place by following other people. A girl named Tamoko followed us too, and we ended up dancing with her the whole night . Fabric was really awesome, and consisted of a giant room with lights shows and a huge crowd dancing to.. I'm still learning all the genres of music.. but lots of bass and lots of beats, but the DJ's talked a whole lot which was the only weird thing. Im not of fan of "ok everybody put your hands up and yell ___! woo!" over and over. We ventured to the other room at 4ish and it was much smaller but the DJ was totally different and we had a good time there as well. London is also completely different than Germany in that boys are more like Americans and try to dance with you/talk to you in London. Silly. I can't hear a bloody thing with music that loud, but that doesn't stop them from trying. In Trier, everyone just dances because they like dancing. Hardly ever any couple-dancing. Just friends and Lone Rangers.

The next day was Camden Town, where we shopped in the cheap markets and I got a new handmade ring from an artists stand, and Jenn got a fake leather jacket! We then headed to our last "sight" which was Shoreditch and Brick lane, and we walked along it smelling the indian restaurants and looking at the sweet graffiti as we searched for a gallery opening Jenn had found online. It seemed they were late in opening so we went to a different gallery, Whitechapel Gallery, and it had some really nice things.

Turned out Jenn was an hour behind on her time, and we ended up running (seriously running) from the tube to the hostel to get our stuff, back to the tube, and to the bus stop, and made it on time! Krakow here we come.

3 more countries! Part:DUBLIN

An update from Dublin, London and Krakow will come shortly after I bake some brownies and eat them :D hold tight

Ok so, the brownies turned out pretty ok. Nothing compared to american boxes brownies—oh my word.

Anyway, I finally caught up on all the sleep I missed while on my big trip. Let us begin with why I took this trip in the first place. Its goes back to the castle at namedy and all the students from all the countri

es who were there. One of my Trier friends, Kerstin (pronounced "cas-teen"), who started talking to one of the boys from Ireland and so when they were leaving they told us to visit and she and I said heck yes we'll visit. So after weeks of me waiting for her to get back with me to finally plan something real she backed out so she could buy a new camera. It turned out to be ok though, because I quickly recruited Jenn to come with me to dublin, and to persuade her to go to Krakow, too so I could see the cute boy from the castle I threw in London- her dream city- into the itenerary as well. We found the 5 plane tickets we needed for real cheap on ryanair and everything was

booked in a couple days!

We arrived in Dublin noonish and the city was so cute and awesome and small and we walked around almost the whole thing on that first day. We went all the way down O'Connell Street, over the Liffey Bridge, past the Temple Bar and a Big Cathedral BUT the most important stop we made was at the Guinness Storehouse, which in the eyes of us two designers and Guinness lovers was a glorious place. The typography and design of the whole exhibit was really nice and after learning how its brewed and looking at years of old advertising campaigns we made it to the top for our free pint! And the guy who poured my pint made a four leaf clover on the top of the Guinness so I asked it he could do anything else, and he said he could make a heart but I'd have to earn it ;) I tried..

We finally met up with Luke (our Dublin friend who Kerstin had been talking to) and he was running late for his soccer game so he took us to watch. I couldn't believe I got to watch a live soccer game in Ireland. Turns out they weren't the best and lost 4-0, but it rained a little on and off and I got a lot of pictures of rainbows that were forming everywhere! We stayed at his house with his family and the next day we shopped on Grafton Street, and tried to get into the public library to ogle the stacks, but there were none to see so I had to be content with taking an illegal picture of the reading room. :( We asked an old man working there where all the books were and he explained in detail how the process worked. We kept talking to him and he told us all about this one book he though we would like, and then asked us if we were going to get drunk that night, haha, which Jenn answered "a little." Then he asked how many pints of Guinness Jenn could drink and she promptly answered "10" to which he thought was quite amazing and told the next 4 people who walked by that "this girl here can drink 10 pints of Guinness." I love the Irish.

That night after a yummy indian dinner we met up at the Village Bar to watch the Barcelona vs Man U game, which was really awesome to be in Ireland for as well. I couldn't believe how expensive everything was there— one Guinness cost 6 euros!! But after buying one Guinness each we didn't pay for anything else the rest of the night. More of our Dublin friends from the castle showed up, and it was so good to see them again! They paid for our drinks the rest of the night and I tried some Baileys on ice which was very tasty, and very authentic of course.. This was the night we were planning on staying up all night because our flight to London was the next morning at 6 ish. So we left the bar with them and all their friends that we met, and we went looking for a place to dance, but it was too expensive to get in, so Luke and Dave decided to give us a proper night tour of Dublin. We walked all through the streets while they gave us history, and it was really cute how much they knew and how passionate they were about their little country :) We stopped at the Burger King which seemed to be the meeting place for all Dublin kids at 3 am, and chilled until it was time to go catch a cab. Oh and also, there were bouncers at BK because Irish people get so fiesty.. crazy.