Getting there

Wow its been quite the past 24 hours! Let me recap:
As I woke up this morning (or yesterday, this time shift has me very confused), I was crazy excited! Or as I call it, I had the " nervies" I was anxious, excited, nervous but most of all excited! I arrived at Minneapolis airport at around 11:45 and got in lone to check in and check my bag. However, there was a little problem with our tickets and the flight number had changed, but we got it figured out smoothly. My bag even weighed in at 48.5, something I have been worried about throughout my packing. There are 12 people that joined us on this flight and good thing because we needed everybody to navigate through the airport in Chicago as it was a bit confusing.
I got onto my seat in msp and sat next to a 5 year old girl and her mother. I started chatting with her and found that she has been to Ireland many times and even did her masters thesis on Georgian Irish architecture -I had no clue what that meant but smiled and went along with it. As I was talking, she would ask her daughter " now Stephanie, if Haley was studying on the west coast of Ireland what county might she be in?" the daughter responded "Galway" I was shocked by her geographical knowledge as she could also name all the country's that bordered Prague and there capitals! Our flight to chicage was only about 40 minutes and by the end of it, I started feeling a little queasy. Needles to say, -I was able to see my whole breakfast over again :) haha
When we finally got off in chicago we had to re-checkin and get a new boarding pass. One of the attendants at the counter was weighing our carry-ons and in even made Megan check her carry on! I almost freaked out that they were going to check mine as well and then I would have nothing! However, I was totally fine and was able to keep my carry on. I got on aer lingus just fine and found my seat for the longest flight of my life! I was really hoping to sleep the whole way there, but ended up sleeping maybe 10 minutes. After we got off the plane in IRELAND, We smoothly went through customs, grabbed our bags and were off to venture in Dublin! That's all I have time for right now, pictures to come soon as I will be settling into the park lodge hotel tomorrow and will be away from the craziness of the city!
H