Wednesday 16th/17th March

We went to Elmhurst on the way to the airport and walked around the little town then sat in Caribou coffee again playing more games until it was time to leave for the airport. We said goodbye to each other (It was sad). The next day at 8am I arrived in Dublin. Mike picked me up and we went for a Starbucks for about an hour, while we had left the lights on in the car!! So when we went to drive off to go home the battery had gone dead, (being saint Patrick's day, nothing was open) we couldn't get a new battery and we couldn't get any jump leads or anything so we tried to push it and start it that way. No luck. We then went to catch a bus into Dublin city centre to get a coach from there to Kilkenny and get another car and tow it down. When we got into the city, the parade was on so we had to wait to get through it. The cops had to stop the parade for a few seconds so he could let us and other people through that need to. We were just about to leave on the coach and then mike's mum rang to say his brother was coming up with jump-leads. so we jumped off the coach, got our money back and tried to get a bus from city centre to Blanchardstown (Dublin) but cos the parade was on, all the buses were taking different routes and going from different bus stops. So it took us about and hour and a half to get to Blanchardstown when it only took us 15 mins on the way. We couldn't find the right bus!! It was a very long day. Plus I only slept for 40 mins on the plane that night!! But it worked out to be a nice adventure. :)