Day 194: Treasure Hunt
Date: 14 MARCH 2009
Woke up in the morning feel fresh and good. "Today is definitely going to be a very eventful day".
Oh, forgot to mentioned that I have already got to my new host place. I am now staying in the FEMALE DORM in a university. Wahaha.. Getting in and out of the building was kinda exciting. Got to sneak in and out. Heehee...
Using a jar as a glass for drinking. Interesting.
Empty beer bottles as candle holders.
Well, will tell you more about my host again. Back onto the streets of dublin city.
I find this kind of cute. Dog in training. Nice!
Well, why did i say that today will be an eventful day? Because I am going to join the treasure hunt around dublin city with my fellow couchsurfers!! We gathered in a pub.
While waiting for everyone to arrived, I went to the loo. Saw a glass of yellow liquid on top of the condom selling machine. Haha.. IS it beer or is it? Urine? Heehee....
Once everyone have arrived, we made our way to the registration point. Hell lots of people here. Hey look!! They are giving away free hotdogs!!! We all ended up queuing for the free food first.
And just as I thought giving out free hotfdogs was a very beautiful thing to do, I realised that the lady who was giving out the hotdogs is even more beautiful!! The one in the middle. Chio right??
Now that we had filled out stomach, its time to get down to business. Let get registered.
The lady at the registration counter. Once she saw that I had a name tag on, she asked me if I am from couchsurfing. ofcourse I said yes. Seems like the couchsurfing community here in Dublin is really very well establish.
After forming into teams of four, our time starts now!!!
But just as got out of the building, we saw some face painting in progress and we decided to get our face painted as well. haha.. Since we are in Dublin Ireland, we decided to get a shamrock, A HUGE SHAMROCK!! Wahahaha..... Forget about the timing, we just wanna have fun.
Do I look good?
This is the lady who painted my face for me. She's pretty ya? And oh, she reminds me of a singapore actress but I cant recall her name.
Presenting my team with our shamrocks and our face painters, from left to right, Australian, Czech Republician, Singaporean and Americian.
Thank you Q102 for the free face painting.
The following are some photos taken during our treasure hunt!! Visited lots of places of interest for free. One word, SHIOK!!
As I was doing the treasure hunt, I also did not forget to make some good pictures. Here I am trying to create 2 different effects with at the same location. Nice?
I think this is not bad as well.
More random photos.
Getting stamps at each of the check point.
After walking around for the whole day, we realised that we will not be able to finish this treasure hunt in time and so we decided to give up. Wahaha.. So we went back to the city center.
I saw this lady carrying a blow up doll walking down the street. I quickly went up to her and asked for a photo. Wahaha.. The hen's party here is definitely more fun and fierce than back home. This is what I call a real hens' party!! Wahahaha look at the huge eraction of that blow up doll. By the way, she is so shy..... And her friends were laughing at her. I guessed they just wanna embarrass her.
We first went to a bar to get some drinks. Saw some couchsurfers there as well. haha.. They have also given up. So after a couple of drinks, we went down to temple's bar. The buskers here are so good and entertaining. We ended up listening to them for quite a long time.
After that, we made our way down to another bar to meet up with the rest of the couchsurfers. The Dublin couchsurfers community had booked a different bar for us every night throughout the whole of this St. Patricks week. Couchsurfers from 6 different continents shown up. I got to know lots of people. It was a hell of a party. I can forsee myself partying every night!!
Well, walking down the streets with the shamrock on our faces drew lots of attentions. Some people shouted out to us that we are too early as paddy's day is still 3 days away and they laughed. But we enjoyed it. we just wanna have fun. I have also got an old man who just came up to me, held my head and kissed my forehead. Wahaha.. He ended up having green lips.
When we passed by a gay pub, some guys talked to me as well.
But not all comments are negative. In fact, with this shamrock on my face, a bunch of girls came flocking towards me on the streets and asked to take photographs with me. They also asked me where Am I from and said that I am cute. HeeheE. :P For the first time in my life this kind of thing happened to me. :)
Back in the pub, the party goes on!! And it was more Guinness for me!!! :)
*Click HERE to return to the Main Page of The Cold Journey.*
Woke up in the morning feel fresh and good. "Today is definitely going to be a very eventful day".
Oh, forgot to mentioned that I have already got to my new host place. I am now staying in the FEMALE DORM in a university. Wahaha.. Getting in and out of the building was kinda exciting. Got to sneak in and out. Heehee...
Using a jar as a glass for drinking. Interesting.
Empty beer bottles as candle holders.
Well, will tell you more about my host again. Back onto the streets of dublin city.
I find this kind of cute. Dog in training. Nice!
Well, why did i say that today will be an eventful day? Because I am going to join the treasure hunt around dublin city with my fellow couchsurfers!! We gathered in a pub.
While waiting for everyone to arrived, I went to the loo. Saw a glass of yellow liquid on top of the condom selling machine. Haha.. IS it beer or is it? Urine? Heehee....
Once everyone have arrived, we made our way to the registration point. Hell lots of people here. Hey look!! They are giving away free hotdogs!!! We all ended up queuing for the free food first.
And just as I thought giving out free hotfdogs was a very beautiful thing to do, I realised that the lady who was giving out the hotdogs is even more beautiful!! The one in the middle. Chio right??
Now that we had filled out stomach, its time to get down to business. Let get registered.
The lady at the registration counter. Once she saw that I had a name tag on, she asked me if I am from couchsurfing. ofcourse I said yes. Seems like the couchsurfing community here in Dublin is really very well establish.
After forming into teams of four, our time starts now!!!
But just as got out of the building, we saw some face painting in progress and we decided to get our face painted as well. haha.. Since we are in Dublin Ireland, we decided to get a shamrock, A HUGE SHAMROCK!! Wahahaha..... Forget about the timing, we just wanna have fun.
Do I look good?
This is the lady who painted my face for me. She's pretty ya? And oh, she reminds me of a singapore actress but I cant recall her name.
Presenting my team with our shamrocks and our face painters, from left to right, Australian, Czech Republician, Singaporean and Americian.
Thank you Q102 for the free face painting.
The following are some photos taken during our treasure hunt!! Visited lots of places of interest for free. One word, SHIOK!!
As I was doing the treasure hunt, I also did not forget to make some good pictures. Here I am trying to create 2 different effects with at the same location. Nice?
I think this is not bad as well.
More random photos.
Getting stamps at each of the check point.
After walking around for the whole day, we realised that we will not be able to finish this treasure hunt in time and so we decided to give up. Wahaha.. So we went back to the city center.
I saw this lady carrying a blow up doll walking down the street. I quickly went up to her and asked for a photo. Wahaha.. The hen's party here is definitely more fun and fierce than back home. This is what I call a real hens' party!! Wahahaha look at the huge eraction of that blow up doll. By the way, she is so shy..... And her friends were laughing at her. I guessed they just wanna embarrass her.
We first went to a bar to get some drinks. Saw some couchsurfers there as well. haha.. They have also given up. So after a couple of drinks, we went down to temple's bar. The buskers here are so good and entertaining. We ended up listening to them for quite a long time.
After that, we made our way down to another bar to meet up with the rest of the couchsurfers. The Dublin couchsurfers community had booked a different bar for us every night throughout the whole of this St. Patricks week. Couchsurfers from 6 different continents shown up. I got to know lots of people. It was a hell of a party. I can forsee myself partying every night!!
Well, walking down the streets with the shamrock on our faces drew lots of attentions. Some people shouted out to us that we are too early as paddy's day is still 3 days away and they laughed. But we enjoyed it. we just wanna have fun. I have also got an old man who just came up to me, held my head and kissed my forehead. Wahaha.. He ended up having green lips.
When we passed by a gay pub, some guys talked to me as well.
But not all comments are negative. In fact, with this shamrock on my face, a bunch of girls came flocking towards me on the streets and asked to take photographs with me. They also asked me where Am I from and said that I am cute. HeeheE. :P For the first time in my life this kind of thing happened to me. :)
Back in the pub, the party goes on!! And it was more Guinness for me!!! :)
*Click HERE to return to the Main Page of The Cold Journey.*
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