Today was an extremely fun day out on the town in Dublin. We started off running errands, and buying necessary items (phones, wireless internet stuff, etc.). I was excited to finally have an Irish cell phone, although my phone is actually pretty difficult to text or call on because the technology is so old compared to my American cell phone! However, it was still fun. We went to the phone place on Grafton Street, a main shopping district in Dublin similar in my opinion to State Street in Madison. There were street performers, and these really cool guys who did tricks with soccer balls.
After the eventful morning, we came back and took a nap (jet lag sucks!), then prepared to go out for the World Championship Street Performers Festival at Merrion Square. The night before, we had met a couple dressed like the characters from Where's Waldo?, the popular children's series. Apparently "Waldo" is known as "Wally" outside of the US, and Dublin was hosting a Guinness Book of World Records attempt at the number of Wally's they could get in one place at one time. Naturally, we had to join in.
Us as Wallys!
The festival itself was huge, and the Wally event was attended by almost 4,000 people, shattering the record before it. Some locals told us it would be on the front page of the Irish Times, the daily newspaper. Breaking a world record and being on the front page of the newspaper? Not bad for my first week in Ireland! :)
The crowd of happy Wallys
Found Wally!
He's called Wally in Australia too!
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