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Jordanstown, without the creepy fog
This time, instead of the train, we took a bus between Belfast and Dublin because it was faster and cheaper than getting a train ticket. Once we got back to Dublin we basically had an entire day to kill because we hadn't had anything planned. To be honest I don't really remember what we did that day at this point. I haven't got many pictures from it either because as we were packing to leave Belfast I realized I'd lost my battery charger and electrical converter as well as my spare battery and was trying to conserve power. I believe we walked around the shops quite a bit.
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Front row on the double decker bus
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Dublin Sunset
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Mother's Day flowers - Bruxelles, the pub behind the flowers, is where we watched the rugby game.
Ireland's rugby team was playing the most important game of their lives that night. They hadn't won in 60 years and were playing against Wales. I don't know the rules of rugby, nor had I seen it before, but you could just feel the tension in the air from the excitement. Every pub you walked into even the employees' eyes were glued to the TVs. We hadn't had any plan to care but we were looking at Mother's Day flowers in a street cart when we kept hearing cheering from up the road so we decided to check it out. We pushed our way barely in through the door to find an entire pub full of onlookers staring up into the TV.
And then....
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You could've gotten drunk off the excitement and happiness in the air!
The next morning Lauren had to catch a plane back to Italy so she and I went to dinner at the little Italian place down the road from our Inn. We had a good long talk and to be honest, that's the last time I've ever had an actual talk with her about anything important. She slept for a few hours in our room on the floor before she had to make her way back to the airport at something around 3 am. When we woke up she was gone.
