En-Passant

I've posted pics from the Amsterdam trip which you can flip through in the photo album (link to the right), or check out Jessie's blog to get all the details (Freeloader!). After coming back from the Netherlands, I met up with Will and Erin (mega friends from Ottawa) who were on their way back from the Master's DSA (Directed Studies Abroad). Before arriving in Dublin they were actually traveling through Morocco which from the sounds of it, was a huge eye-opener (no images to share unfortunately, but more importantly using this parenthesis to gratuitously highlight the unusual abundance of parentheses to this point). Anyhow, we also met up with Halen and Asher from Boulder Colorado who I met at Will and Erin's wedding and are good friends of W&E since their exchange program last year. This might be turning in to a friends network myriad, but I'll cut to the chase now.

Halen and Asher stayed at a hostel downtown while Erin and Will crashed chez moi. We all met up in the morning downtown and on the first day out, we puttered around Phoenix Park with picnic material on hand. It was great weather and in our wayward navigating we found a herd of wild Fallow Deer.

After we hunted and skinned the last of the deer, Will, Erin and I marched down to the Guinness Factory for the afternoon. T'was a rare and glorious sight seeing these two tackle the pint of plain. At night we all met up and checked out a comedy show at the International Bar which was a great time (albeit a little nerve-racking at first considering we had to sit on-stage to watch the show).

The next day we shopped allllll day. I think we may have all set personal records. We shopped from sunrise till sunset. I've never done anything like it in my life.

Sadly the crew was off the day after and I sobbed endlessly in their absence for 16 days straight.