Day One: Dinner at 2AM, Anyone?

Here we are at our hotel in Galway! Steve’s had his inaugural pint of Guinness, and Katey has had both a cheese toastie and fish ‘n chips (of course with mushy peas).  Our Ireland refreshment tour is obviously off to a great start.

Wish we could say the same for our travels from O’Hare to Dublin. 😦. We made it safe and mostly sound, and without going into oppressive detail, here are some questions we either heard or had over the past 24 hours:

• Wait. Did that gate agent say there’s a guy under the plane with a flashlight??
• Can a 787 run out of gas idling while waiting for permission to take off? 
• What’s the medical emergency requiring us to taxi back to the gate??
• Why are they inviting anyone who wants to to deplane??
• Have you ever eaten a full dinner at 2 am??
• $7.07 per gallon for gas??

Once we arrived in Dublin, we got a shuttle to a train that brought us 2.5 hours west to Galway, and our hotel on the Atlantic was just a five-minute walk from the train. We’re fed and showered and ready for a good night’s sleep!