the joys of international travel!
yay for giant heavy bags! and needing to tote them all around the largest airports ever!
i had some stressful moments on the trip here, if my sarcasm didn't register correctly. it didn't help that my connecting flight to LAX was delayed and late getting in, so i only checked in for my aer lingus flight with 90 minutes to get my bag screened, get through security and get to the plane, which boarded 45 minutes before takeoff. so, i got to the gate with about 10 minutes to spare. and then i realized i hadn't eaten anything since breakfast, and it was 4:00. so i grabbed a banana, then found out it was mushy, so i grabbed another banana. a superior banana. and it was good.
the flight was long, but i had a TV screen in the back of my seat, and got to watch mediocre movies. i saw kingdom of heaven, herbie: reloaded, and bambi. bambi wasn't mediocre, it was good, but the others were only so-so.
getting into dublin was fine, customs glared at me but let me through. the cab ride was rather uninteresting. however, the cabbie did have a very boring radio station on. it was all covers from the 60s, pretty-boy-esque doowop type stuff (neil sedaka eat your heart out), or songs that were supposd to sound like they were covered from the 60s. let me tell you, if you thought the real songs had some cheesy, bad lyrics, it was nothing compared to the "new" ones. half sounded like they were all sung by the same two guys, one guy singing about his unrequited love, because he loves in a "weird" way, and the other guy mostly sang about running from "special agents", or running to mexico.
the fun part about the cab ride was the subtle hints of the irish's feelings toward the US. my personal favorite was "hillbilly's express, southern fried chicken".
that's all for now, maybe next time, i'll have actually done something!
scott
i had some stressful moments on the trip here, if my sarcasm didn't register correctly. it didn't help that my connecting flight to LAX was delayed and late getting in, so i only checked in for my aer lingus flight with 90 minutes to get my bag screened, get through security and get to the plane, which boarded 45 minutes before takeoff. so, i got to the gate with about 10 minutes to spare. and then i realized i hadn't eaten anything since breakfast, and it was 4:00. so i grabbed a banana, then found out it was mushy, so i grabbed another banana. a superior banana. and it was good.
the flight was long, but i had a TV screen in the back of my seat, and got to watch mediocre movies. i saw kingdom of heaven, herbie: reloaded, and bambi. bambi wasn't mediocre, it was good, but the others were only so-so.
getting into dublin was fine, customs glared at me but let me through. the cab ride was rather uninteresting. however, the cabbie did have a very boring radio station on. it was all covers from the 60s, pretty-boy-esque doowop type stuff (neil sedaka eat your heart out), or songs that were supposd to sound like they were covered from the 60s. let me tell you, if you thought the real songs had some cheesy, bad lyrics, it was nothing compared to the "new" ones. half sounded like they were all sung by the same two guys, one guy singing about his unrequited love, because he loves in a "weird" way, and the other guy mostly sang about running from "special agents", or running to mexico.
the fun part about the cab ride was the subtle hints of the irish's feelings toward the US. my personal favorite was "hillbilly's express, southern fried chicken".
that's all for now, maybe next time, i'll have actually done something!
scott
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