Well, since our return journey to the States involved a train to the airport and flying in to JFK - the sources of our two main travel problems! - we were keeping our fingers crossed for a smooth(er) journey back. All went well. Well, of those things at least. The day, however, got out to a rocky start: when I checked out of the hotel, with the owner who spoke less than a handful of English, she opened her book and pointed to Jeannie's name and to the amount. I handed her my card, and she said, No, no, cash. As a foreign tourist leaving the country, I wasn't about to have 150 Euros on me, but because of the language barrier, this detail wasn't made clear. So Jeannie and I spent the first half hour of my meticulously timed trip to the airport hunting for a bank and ATM, then BACK to the hotel to pay her. She made it difficult for me to stay mad though because when we got back she had little jars of apricot juice for us. And we caught the next train and made it to the airport in plenty of time. Still not the start I was hoping for.
In the Dublin airport, this time, we had more than 20 minutes to race between flights, and were very glad we did! We had lunch at a cafe called Butler's Chocolates, which specializes in drinking chocolate! :) Why don't we have this in America?! ... oooh, there's one in NJ.
Anyway, we made it to NY just fine, watching movies the whole way, where our luggage met us! Then taxi to Grand Central Terminal, train to New Haven, and met Kyle and Ashley there, and drove up to Avon. Good to be home!
Pictures to come!
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