Ireland? Yeah. Ireland.

Friday morning we hopped on a train to commute over to Madrid where we would get our first (or should I say worst) class plane on over to Ireland. We had a short layover in Madrid and got a few pastry's and food and headed on down to the airport. It was our first time flying Ryanair. I've got a bit of an opinion about this airline, some good some bad. The good: flights are incredibly cheap, you pick your seats when you get on the plane like a bus, they're almost always on time flights. The bad: the colors of the plane are blue and yellow. Not a soft yellow, the brightest neon yellow you've ever seen. It hurts to look anywhere, seriously. The seats don't recline and my legs hit the seat in front of me. You can't stick your legs in the aisles or the stewardesses destroy your knees (learned from experience) with the drink cart. Besides being visually harsh and compact, it's not a bad experience. When we got to the airport we told the cab driver (in English, which is a huge help) where our hotel was and he says "you're a long ways away". Thats stellar news for college kids on a serious budget hopping into a cab that only accepts the Euro (let me remind you the dollar blows over here), to go "a ways away". It really makes your heart feel tranquil (you've gotta be kidding me, those meters are the death of me). After a 60 euro (between 5 people) cab ride I felt a little abused but we arrived to the Days Hotel. After walking through the doors to the counter, we were kindly told our reservation had not been made, and they were completely booked (they had a huge rugby match the whole city was full from). Luckily we were with some of the nicest people on earth and they helped us out more than I thought was possible. We booked through a website that they actually didn't have an affiliation with (great news for us) but they gave us the same rates the website did and gave us a room temporarily for the night. They told us it would be a night by night basis (I'll kill the drama by saying we didn't have to move). We all went to the room and went to bed after long travels to wake up for the morning.