Two Waters, Please

And our, well really Lauren's, last words to Dublin were 'Sup!' in response to two cute Dublin men making their way home from the pub. We unfortunately were making our way to the airport at 4:30am to catch our early flight to Edinburgh that we decided on last night. I am quite rested sitting on about 3 hours of sleep... While Lauren laid awake listening to the thump of pub music outside our window. She is here physically, but not so sure mentally.
Although we only spent 22 hours in Dublin, I feel like we got to see what it's all about. The Irish are quite possibly the kindest, most helpful people in the world! After walking the streets for about 4 minutes we had a mild heart attack when a cop van pulled over and interrogated us, asking if we were lost. Apparently the bulky camera and map in hand gave away that we were tourists. They were funny and helpful pointing us in the right way. We ate some delicious toast with Nutella and coffee at a cute cafe and people watched above the street. Then we walked around the city seeing the Dublin Castle, St. Patrick's cathedral, a beautiful park and even attended a small Catholic service. We had a wonderful traditional Irish dinner and decided to make our way to our hostel's pub crawl. At first we loved meeting all the foreigners, mainly Aussies, but then we realized since we were only here for one day that we could not leave without meeting some REAL Irishmen! So we decided to break off from the group and go to more populated pubs, where being quite thirsty I asked the bartender for "two waters, please" The two Irishmen sitting at the bar replied in disgust "don,t you want a real drink?" And that is how our long , deep, genuine, easy conversation began with Conner and Ian. They are both teachers and in a band. They hate Colin Ferrel, Coldplay and even Bono! When we told them we were only in Dublin for one day they w quite disappointed in us, but after explaining all that we saw in one day they seemed impressed.

Five truths about Dublin and the Irish:
1. They love Oasis, we heard Wonderwall 5 times last night!
2. They drink Guiness like water
3. They seek pleasure from mocking American accents
4. They are very passionate about what they believe in
5. They are quit cynical but open to differing opinions.