Last Day in Dublin

This was it. Our trip was almost done, so tonight being our last night it was time to go hard and then go home. We headed out to the pubs with a few others that were staying in our hostel. Of course the pubs were crawling with people. Everyone was in a festive mood considering Christmas was right around the corner. The music was fantastic and there were so many people to talk to. We ended up Irish Dancing with an older man who swept both of us off of our feet and dragged us to the center of the floor, where everyone formed a circle around us and began to clap with the music. Although our dancing skill are not fantastic, we did have a blast and must say by the end of the night we were Irish dancing quite a lot. We also hung out with a French bachelor group, where one of the fellows was getting married shortly, saved a girl from an old man creeper by puling her to the dance floor, and talked with people from Germany and Amsterdam. The night was a success and the next morning we finished our stay in Dublin with a full Irish breakfast of meat, meat, and more meat :)

Camera Mishap... Again

We finally made it back to Dublin after spending an interesting night in the airport. Fortunately, we stayed up with salt and vinegar chips, a number of random old school games (literally) such as MASH, and walking around aimlessly for hours. By the time we were back at our hostel, we were exhausted and fell asleep instantly until someone came into the room and yelled out "what smells like moldy feet?" 

Although, we would like to say we were wondering the same thing, in actuality we knew exactly what smelt like moldy feet. It was us... so shower time it was. And it felt so nice to not only take a shower, but to wear clean clothes again. 

After being as clean as we were ever going to be on this trip, we had a mission- find a new camera for Kristen's friend Bernard. So remember how when it comes to technology we always seem to break it. Well it happened again. What a surprise. This time it happened with the camera that we had ended up borrowing from Bernard. We had put the camera into the same bag as the detergent and lo and behold the digital camera screen ended up ruined due to the detergent. (Disclaimer- we were not trying to wash the camera with detergent as the camera guy may have thought when we told him what happened.) Anyways although the camera still worked for the most part, we couldn't give Bernard his damaged camera back without feeling completely awful about it. He had been so generous in the first place to even let us, of all people, borrow his camera. So after some looking around and some funny looks from the camera salesman, we found a camera to replace his other one. We think that will be the last time anyone lets us use their stuff again, especially techy stuff. There seriously is a curse on us. 

A Shopping Muesum… You say what?!

After getting a semi decent night of rest after trudging our way to our hostel at two in the morning in London, we were ready to explore. However, it wasn’t the typical London sightseeing because we had already seen all of that our last trip to London. No, this was a girl kind of day and we were excited. We were going to go and see the shopping stores that people couldn’t stop talking about- Harrods and Kara Harvey.

We walked through Kensington Park, looked at Kensington Palace (we were too cheap to actually buy tickets to tour the place) and rented bikes for half an hour until we finally made it to our destination.

Now you may be thinking how ridiculous it was of us to go to London and go shopping when not only are there way more magnificent sights in London but we are two broke girls with absolutely no cash. And yes that all sounds about right, but then if you actually went to Harrods you would probably beg to differ. Harrods is an absolute spetactical. Not only because it is Christmas, but this store was basically like a shopping museum or a “Disney World” for adults. It had absolutely everything and anything you would want. Every floor was a maze of the best designer fashions, décor, and the like. It was absolutely incredible and both of us could not stop gawking at what we saw. Although we could probably not even afford the toilet paper that we used in Harrods, we decided to splurge and at least have tea time because that is what the English do. Our waitress brought us out five little delicious desserts and hot vanilla tea. It was perfect. By this time our feet were also killing us from walking all day, so we sat for hours just conversing over our teacups. To end the night, we walked through a Winter Wonderland festival in the park, listening to Rockabilly music for a little bit and then hustled back through the dark and foggy park, where the light was literally flickering and Kristen’s arm almost fell off because Brittany was clenching it so hard. Luckily we made it back to our hostel and fell asleep in seconds after a long day of shopping, or more so watching other people shop.

Going into Hysteria

So overall our trip has been great. We have met some wonderful and interesting people. We have seen so many spectacular sights. And we have eaten some of the greatest food. But our time is winding down and with that we have become exhausted.

We keep on going because that is what we have to do, but we smell (if you don’t know how bad we smell read the post from before…), our feet are sore, and our eyes keep on getting smaller every single day due to the lack of sleep. Don’t get us wrong we are still enjoying ourselves but at the same time, we are to the point of getting very excited about being home in our own beds, smelling clean, driving around on our own terms and not being broke out of our minds.

But with a few days left we can handle it and with it comes a lit bit of craziness, some silence, and a lot of hysteria. We have taken a crazy amount of stupid pictures, half the time can’t understand each other because one of us is speaking in tongues, and have laughed for long periods of time about absolutely nothing. It gets really bad when everyone else in the hostel is sleeping and you come into the room and start laughing for no apparent reason and can’t stop. Oh we are having a blast, but we will both be happy when we get home and are able to become normal human beings again.

Peace Out Greece!

Well, we have done what we have set out to do in Greece- relax. But now it is time to head on off to London. We are glad we went to Greece and probably would do it again, preferably in the summer next time. 

So what we observed in Thessaloniki... most of the guys are gorgeous with their dark hair, light complexion, and nice face features. The women are also very pretty for the most part, but the ones we seemed to encounter were not the nicest. There are quite a lot of street vendors and homeless people and the city is not that clean. It does, however, have beautiful views of both the mountains and ocean. They have a lot of cool cafes/ bars. The food, especially in the bakeries, is very cheap. For the most part everyone speaks English so you can get along quite easily. They have quite a lot of Starbucks- Yay caffeine! We probably wouldn't head to Thessaloniki for the shopping because for some reason the stores seem like they are selling pre-worn clothes, but if you are looking for shoes they do have quite a lot of those. 

Also when you are in Greece you must eat a gyro. They are super cheap and quite tasty, but for warning that it may upset your stomach later... 

Greece is great, but we are ready to see something new again! 

It's Movie Time!!!!

Like we said, we were planning on being lazy in Greece and doing pretty much nothing and we have succeeded. For the past few days, we literally have sat at cafes, eaten gyros and watched movies all day long. The list so far... American Beauty, V for Vendetta, Wedding Crashers, Bad Santa, The Usual Suspects, Casablanca, and Sound of Music. Maybe a little ridiculous, but we have enjoyed every minute of it! Yesterday it was cold and wet outside and neither of us really felt like walking around. 

But while being recluses in our room, we have laughed hysterically (maybe we are becoming a little crazy in the coconut after spending so many hours with just ourselves) and have been beyond honest with each other. It has come to the point where Brittany may punch Kristen or Brittany will be tackled by Kristen, but even though each of us knows what really gets under the other person's skin, we still are really enjoying each others company :) 

So Fresh and So Clean

Okay so we are going to be real with you folks who are still reading our blog. We smell. Real bad. We are on our twelfth day of sharing the six shirts that we packed between us and the selection of semi-clean clothes is dwindling right before our eyes. Although Kristen’s sense of smell is very limited, Brittany has made it clear that we are literally living in stink at the moment. Not only are both of us somewhat ashamed of going out in public, but Brittany literally can’t even wrap up in her own sheets because she smells “Brittany stink.”

Not that we haven’t tried to stay clean and smelling nice. We have deodorant, body spray works to a point, and then Brittany came up with the genius idea of rubbing nice smelling dryer sheets on our clothes as well. But after awhile even these techniques don’t make much of a difference after between the two of us we wear the same shirt at least two days in a row.

Traveling… we take the bad (or should we stay stink) with the good! Hey at least we haven’t come to the point our friend Mike has come to where the store owner was literally spraying him with Febreeze when he walked into the store…