Friday night, we had a girls' night at Emily's place, since Pete and Ryan went to London. Well.... girls' night plus Jon, haha. I am pretty sure he had fun though. Ate lots of pizza, and played Never Have I Ever. Haha... the best get-to-know-you game ever!
Saturday, I did nothing productive. Got up around 12:30, bummed around the house (uploaded all those photos from the bank holiday). By about 3pm, Julien (a French guy I met through some parties of my old flatmate Katia) called me and told me about going to Fitzsimons' and hanging out, and that Daniela is going too. So yea, I went, and it was a good time. After Fitzsimons, we went and bought some food and basically hung out on the lawn Trinity College. There were loads of people there, just hanging out, it was great. It was such a beautiful day for it too. That night I went to a patio party at one of Julien's friend's place. It was pretty cool, I met a bunch of Italians, haha.
(Chillin on the football pitch)
(Me and Daniela)
(Chillin on the streets)
So yesterday, even though no one took up the offer to to go Bray, I went anyway, because I really wanted to climb Bray Head. Bray is a town about 1 hour's train ride south of Dublin. I'm not really sure how many kms it is though.
(The race against time! Running to catch the DART)
Anyway... Bray was a pretty nice little town, lots of tourists. There are some hills there, for trekkers. I guess the most popular thing people do in Bray is to climb the Bray Head, which is a big hill with a cross at the top. People climb to the top to reach the cross, and the view up there is supposed to be very nice. So I climbed it, and it took me about 1.5 hours. It was a real workout, going up. There were no paved paths or anything, so I was going over bushes, stones, boulders, and branches. It was cool though. Actually... it was hot. Haha (I can just picture Fran rolling her eyes as she reads this haha!)
(The beach at Bray)
(See the cross at the very tip of that big hill? That's the destination of the day)
(Somewhere in the middle)
(Close!)
(Closer! Almost there!)
Anyway, I finally reached the top, and met a nerdy Irish guy along the way. We had pretty cool convos. He got to the top before I did, because I took so many breaks in between. The view at the top was pretty spectacular: more hills and LAND on my left, the whole town laid out in front, and the ocean on my right. After hanging out around there for a while, I climbed to the other adjacent hills, which were actually more treacherous because while there was some sort of path to get to the main hill, there was nothing that led to the other ones. It was basically all rock climbing and going through pine bushes. It was actually kinda scary. Once I got to the top though, it was grand. :) Hung around the other hill for a bit and had a cool convos with the Irish nerd. I thought he was writing in his journal up there by himself, but no, he was apparently reading some computer textbook, getting ready for an exam. (?!?! some things I'll never understand...)
(Made it! The view from the top!)
(Me at the cross)
(More hills)
(My nerdy friend of the day)
Anyway, after hanging out on the hill for a while, I headed back down, got back on the DART,and met up with my cool USIT friends at Killiney Beach. The beach was littered with people, it was pretty awesome. We just hung out there, talking and such. I went wading in the ocean, and the water was effing cold! At one point, we saw this man walking by, it was SOOOOO funny! He looked like he's been walking for days!! He was seriously dirty and in desperate need of a shave. I call him the Lonely Traveler. It's weird, because I took lots of great scenic photos, but I think the photo I took of the Lonely Traveler was my favourite one that day. :) :)
(Clockwise from left: Suzi, Emily, April, Jon, and Joie)
(Wading in the ocean!)
(I love macro-ing everything!)
(Love how Jon's shirt perfectly matches the soccer ball)
(THE LONELY TRAVELER!!!!!)
(Pete and I waiting for the DART back to Dublin)
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