Boston and Washington Spring 2016 - Boys, Blades and Balls! - Day 1 (Stansted to Dublin)

[Glee Fan]

I just did a search for Washington and Boston trip reports as looking at visiting one of them, but can't decide which! Then I found this bad boy that covers them both - result!

So annoying at Dublin for you! As for the tree saga, I would have just cried! Looking forward to reading more

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Originally Posted by Glee Fan

I just did a search for Washington and Boston trip reports as looking at visiting one of them, but can't decide which! Then I found this bad boy that covers them both - result!

So annoying at Dublin for you! As for the tree saga, I would have just cried! Looking forward to reading more

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I hope the trippie will be a tiny bit helpful...I know most people won't be going to figure skating competitions...

[disney owl]

what a travel day!

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Originally Posted by disney owl

what a travel day!

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Tell me about it!

I came unglued when I saw the massive tree blocking the lane - there was mud and water everywhere and the last thing I wanted was to try and climb over the tree (with all our luggage) to get to the taxi...


Thanks for coming along with us -

[RachelM]

what a stressful start. I would have been so panicked! Glad you all got to Dublin though (eventually)

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Originally Posted by RachelM

what a stressful start. I would have been so panicked! Glad you all got to Dublin though (eventually)

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No lie, I was running around like a chicken with its head cut off.

And I KNOW I should ADMIRE the fact that DH keeps his cool with things like this - but I don't - it just annoys me. I'm a bad wife...


Tomorrow's journey was much easier, though - thankfully.


Thanks for checking in!

[collybird]

It's Friday!

Passport control was obviously just recreating the experience of US immigration as you were going to be missing out this trip.

I hate 'airport' hotels that you can't actually walk to/from. Very misleading. I need to be on the doorstep to avoid being killed in a car crash on the way to check in. I'm not kidding, that's my reasoning.

[Goldia]

Tree. In the road! Wasn't expecting that as the start of the first travel day. Normally I'm racing round like a loony emptying and then cleaning out the fridges as I like to make sure they at least get cleaned out semi-annually the idea of dealing with a felled tree would probably have sent me over the edge of the abyss.

It's a good thing you got through Irish immigration without any hiccups and that you had a lovely dinner to make up for the shocking start

[Guest]

Originally Posted by collybird

It's Friday!

Passport control was obviously just recreating the experience of US immigration as you were going to be missing out this trip.

I hate 'airport' hotels that you can't actually walk to/from. Very misleading. I need to be on the doorstep to avoid being killed in a car crash on the way to check in. I'm not kidding, that's my reasoning.

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I hear you, my friend. I like this website to find hotels that are actually CONNECTED to the airport:

sleepinginairports/

No choice at Dublin, though. Nothing attached to the airport!


The immigration man at Dublin was such a miserable sumbuck! And I DETEST it when men try to intimidate me but then act all buddy-buddy with R.C...

Oh, those little women - they get all hysterical, don't they? We men - we UNDERSTAND each other.

Vomit.



This is going to be so weird for you to read - you know us so well now! Let's hope THIS prequel is better than...

Thanks for coming back to see us. You're the best.

[Guest]

Originally Posted by Goldia

Tree. In the road! Wasn't expecting that as the start of the first travel day. Normally I'm racing round like a loony emptying and then cleaning out the fridges as I like to make sure they at least get cleaned out semi-annually the idea of dealing with a felled tree would probably have sent me over the edge of the abyss.

It's a good thing you got through Irish immigration without any hiccups and that you had a lovely dinner to make up for the shocking start

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Abby!

It's so incredibly sweet of you and Colette to keep up the Friday tradition. Thank you.



And...YES. My normal travel day rituals are:

1. Empty every bin in the house

2. Scrub out my kitchen sink

3. Set the light timers


Chainsaws are not usually required.


And I'm not going to describe that dinner as "lovely". I'll go as far as "adequate", though.

R.C. has a weird thing about eating in the hotel restaurant - and after he sawed up a tree for me on four hours sleep, I wasn't about to argue with him.