This post is LONG overdue, and I have many more updates to post after this. We left for London LATE Friday, which made for a rough start to the trip. The airport we booked our flight into was an hour from the city, and by the time we got on a bus and got to our hostel is was almost 1am! We had originally had some difficulties with finding a hostel, and so myself and my roommate booked ONE bed in the hostel to share, and ended up getting caught. So in the midst of finding another free room/hostel at 1am in London, during a weekend of music festivals and WIMBLEDON, we never found another open spot in a hostel, but we met some guys who were working the bars at the Hard Rock Calling Music Festival in Hyde Park (which we had no idea was going on). They told us Kings of Leon had played, and the next acts were Bon Jovi and Rod Stewart. We talked to them for like 20minutes about America, and left. Went back to the original hostel and they made accommodations for both of us to stay (whew!), but we were still out of a place to stay Saturday night. So we ended up getting some sleep (in this AWFUL hostel might I add...) in a room with 10 other strangers... and we started our Saturday around 9am. We started out trying to venture around the city in hopes of finding a place to stay that night. EVERYWHERE booked. We then ventured to a mall where we got ready for the day (because our hostel had ONE bathroom for a room of 12 people, we didn't get to do this there..) and we got ready in one of the bathrooms at the mall. (Quite the experience)... Then we got a text from the guys we had met the night before, they had 2 free tickets for us for the music festival -- TO SEE BON JOVI! So we spent our Saturday night in Hyde Park seeing BON JOVI for free!!!
The weather was ABSOLUTELY beautiful and it was an AWESOME concert! He played for almost 3.5 hours! Then we wandered around once again looking for a place to stay... found a hotel that had one room, but we had to check out at 7am! So we booked that and got up early to site-see... we spent ALL of Sunday on a tour bus seeing everything about London. My favorite was Buckingham Palace.. I wish we had gotten to spend more time visiting and learning about the Royalty. We DID get to see the changing of the guards which was VERY cool!
It was GORGEOUS. But our trip was short, as our flight back to Dublin was at 7am on Monday morning... so we spent the night at a Hookah Bar (where we met the very nice owner), and he let us stay and hang out with his employees until 3am. Then we took a cab to the airport and slept there for a few hours and caught a plane to Dublin! It was short, but nice. They cost of living is soo expensive, so it was better we left when we did! I'm sure there is much more to tell, but honestly London was more or less spent looking for places to stay than looking around the city... I will definitely go back one day when I have more money and a better plan!!
The last week in was bittersweet! I spent a lot of time working on my final presentation with my partner Zane for BJ Fitzpatrick & Co. It turned out to be a success! The company loved it, and they were very appreciative of our hard work! They even gave us gifts!!! My first Pandora charm bracelet!!!!!! (Now I can get charms for gifts :]
The last dinner hosted by the College of Business was at the Arlington Hotel. We got a 3 course meal, which we got to choose. I had a salad, Lamb, and cheesecake. I must say my shank of lamb (which was my first EVER) was delicious!! After dinner the student managers arranged for us to get into a Temple bar club, where we spent most of the night dancing! Our last night we spent at one of our favorite local bars, Doyle's. It was right down the street from Trinity and we got to know it pretty well! I left at 4am with another group of students who had early flights, so it was hard saying goodbye to too many people so early. Needless to say, we were all still slightly drunk at the airport at 4am having gone out to Doyle's right before! Luckily I was already packed! This time, checking THREE bags... oyyyyyy how am I EVER going to get back to the States?!
The girls at the pitch on our last night!
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