Yes please! Ok, so we headed over to Kilkenny after Dublin and rode on our first train, which was amazing. I am now in love with train rides; they are comfy and you have a table to play cards on! So Kilkenny is a really Irish town that it is very small with a bad ass castle. We did a tour of this castle (after taking a tour of the castle grounds, which we both took the opportunity to pee on our first castle!) and during this tour we came upon a huge marble table. Whilst Dillon was sitting upon this table the guide goes on to tell the group that it was used to lay the dead bodies on during the wake. So he was embarassed and stood up quickly, then proceeded to exclaim, ''Shit!'', ... read more

Ok so we were running on 40 hrs with maybe 20 min of sleep. So we were dead... but then we met some guys back at the hostel about dillons age and they convinced us to go to the pubs. so we did some bar hopping i had a 17$ jameson and coke and dillon and 60$ in beer. you must think us crazy ya? know the irish are crazy for charging so damn much! the cheapest thing we could find was bananas and chips then 5$ us small hamburger. it is killing us. dillon looked at me today and shook his head as he finished his burger and said, '' ya i am losing weight here''. oh well, we knew it was coming, just not quite so hard. so we are going to start buying ... read more

So I know I posted already about where we're traveling but here's the official breakdown with dates. The first two weeks, I'll be with my mom: June 12-14: London June 15-16: Edinburgh, Scotland June 17-18: Scottish Highlands (Loch Ness) June 19: Glasgow, Scotland June 20: Wales June 21: Bath, Stonehenge, Salisbury, London June 22-24: London Now I'll meet up with Dillon and Ian: June 24-25: London, England June 25-26: Brussels, Belgium June 26-28: Bruges, Belgium June 28- July 1: Amsterdam, The Netherlands July 1-6: Dro, Italy (with Ian's family) Now Dillon takes off for Spain, and Ian and I continue alone: July 6-8: Krakow, Poland (The night of July 8, we will be taking an overnight train to the Czech Republic) July 9-12: Prague, Czech Republic July 12-15: Munich, Germany July 15-17: Salzburg, Austria July 17-20: ... read more

Hi everyone! Kate here. According to my little internet countdown on my myspace, I officially have 6 days, 18 hours, 2 minutes, and 52 seconds before my plane leaves London-bound. In these last few days at home, Ian and I have A LOT scheduled. Today is Dillon's graduation from high school. Tomorrow, the two of them have to drive to LA because of what has become the first unforeseen mini-disaster of our trip. Dillon's passport is expired. Apparently, they both got their passports along with their parents some time ago, but Dillon was so young that his was only good for 5 years. None of us thought to check! Thank goodness they discovered it yesterday and have an appt. in LA tomorrow at the passport registering place. YIKES. That was close. Then on Saturday we have ... read more

Okay, so let the official countdown begin! Ian has officially 65 days before he leaves for Europe, and I have 67. Reason being, he's traveling with his little bro for 2 weeks while I travel with my mom for 2 weeks. Both of us will be hitting England and Scotland separately during these 2 weeks, plus Ian and Dillon will be visiting Ireland, and my mom and I will be going to Wales. We're both excited about these first trips, and will meet up in England on June 26. From here, we'll kiss my mom goodbye, and then takeoff just the 3 of us. With Dillon, we'll visit Bruges and Brussels, in Belgium, and Amsterdam in The Netherlands. Then we'll fly to Dro, Italy to meet Ian and Dillon's super-Italian relatives that live there! We'll stay ... read more