Technology= Fail

So this trip, we have learned that the technology gods really hate us. Both of us in one way or another have broken or had extremely bad luck when it comes to our gadgets and gizmos. In the first place, we really didn’t bring that much technology with us. Neither of us even have a phone, but with every piece of technology that we did bring something bad has happened with it.

First there was the camera. One day as we were walking the streets of Dublin and there was a picture moment, Kristen took out the camera but it completely just stopped working and the lens thingy was stuck. We ended up having to buy a new camera because we had to document our trip in some fashion.

The next piece of technology was Brittany’s Ipod. We were in our room one night listening to her music (because for some reason she really is not a fan of Kristen’s music… strange) and all of a sudden all of her music just disappeared on her Ipod. She was left with nothing. Fortunately for Brittany, Kristen was kind enough to let her to download her music for the rest of the trip so she does have some music on her Ipod even if it isn’t any of her punk/rock music.

Then there has been the constant stop and go of the wifi with our computer. We constantly have to go to cafés and the like in order to get free wifi. Not that it is at all bad, but even when our hostels advertise that they have free wifi, our computer does not seem to recognize it… maybe we are just too impatient and want a reason to go get some bread, but in all seriousness our computer is very slow. So much so, that one day when we were in Starbucks trying to get online, our computer wouldn’t get online at all. Every other person around us was online, but we were unsuccessful.

Technology is just not our friend, but we have learned to be a little more patient with it and now just expect that something bad is bound to happen when we do use it. Maybe one day we will figure it all out.