We woke up early the next morning around 6am feeling completely refreshed since we went to bed so early. After some early morning calls and email replies we grabbed 4 pieces of toast which is the breakfast they were serving and started getting ready for our early morning tour of Dublin City. Since we had to be out of our current hostel before 11:30 and we knew that our tour of Dublin coupled with the Guinness factory tour we had to find a place to lock up our bags and we convinced our old hostel that we would be coming back to stay so they let us. Which of course wasn’t true because they were too expensive muahaha.

After we took care of everything we ran and jumped on our tour bus which was a hop on hop off tour. All that means is any place in particular we were interested in we could jump off, and then just get back on the next one that came around. There are tons of these busses so it isn’t a big deal, and they are all double deckers with half of the top deck exposed to the elements. It was raining but we decided to sit under the rain anyway because of the perfect view of the surroundings.

The tour was great, and our tour guide was funny. Actually, all of the guides are funny because of their voices. The Irish accent is the best accent ever because it always makes you laugh. It was interesting to see the city with its mix of modern and old architecture. There is a big 200 foot Spire (which they call a standing stone) in the middle of the city that was built within about 10-20 years. And then you have a theatre right next to it that is still in use to this day that is 200 years old.

It was also interesting because some of the architecture looked like it was built by the Romans with pillars with angels gracing the sides. Although we were told that the Romans never actually made it to Ireland. And some of it looks like old English Castles just as you would picture them. And they are all side by side. We also saw some awesome old churches like, Christchurch, and St. Patrick’s. Absolutely stunning and completely surrounded my green lawns and trees.
Finally we reached the Guinness Factory and we hopped off. We didn’t mind paying the 15 Euro to run through the factory tour. Except that is exactly what we ended up doing, running through it. There really wasn’t all that much too see that we hadn’t already seen on Discovery Channel. Justin became a certified pourer of Guinness and got a certificate for it while Tyler looked around. The very end of the tour was the best because of the Gravity bar at the top. It’s a 7 story high bar with glass windows that overlooks the entire city. There we toasted to each other’s health as we tried to point out certain buildings.

When we were all done we jumped back on another bus and finished the tour, we still had a long day ahead of us….