From Chicago, to Denmark, to Dublin, to Wexford!

As I type this I am sitting at the gate for my flight from Copenhagen to Dublin… but as I submit it I will be somewhere else – somewhere with internet.

First of all: Happy Birthday to my sister Grace!! Sorry I can’t be home for it.

Now a few of the things that I have learned since leaving the campus of Notre Dame:

• Sometimes buses break down and don’t show up at all, but luckily a friend was waiting with me and we were able to drive to the airport in his car.
  
• Airport security thinks much more highly of you when the guy in front of you hasn’t even signed his passport.
• Full body scanners feel like you are being frisked by air.
• Two and a half hours early is plenty of time to be at your gate.
• Apparently elderly Swedish women who sit next to you on the airplane tend to not warn you as they try to stand on their seat and climb over you to go to the bathroom, and when this fails they simply sit on your lap and wiggle themselves over you.
• Little kids can be so cute, but they can also be so loud.
• Exchanging currency at a bank is frustratingly expensive.
• In Denmark the urinals are really really high. 
• Also in Denmark the “assistance center” is not where you go to ask for directions to Terminal 3… it’s where you go if you need a wheelchair.
• At the 7/11 in the Copenhagen Airport right above your water bottle in the cooler on the wall is a Corona Light.
• And last but not least… I am capable of traveling all by myself!!!
  

All in all it was pretty smooth day of travel.  I made it to Teach Bhride and now it is time to force myself to sleep so that my recent time-traveling doesn't throw off my entire week.  Tomorrow will be so exciting!