Have love will travel

Here we go again! I'm off to Barcelona on Thursday to commence the 21st Birthday celebrations. I'm also almost completely broke. I knew this time would come at some point, but due to unforeseen medical issues, unpredictable accidents with expensive toys like macbooks and ipods, and an addiction to airfare and sushi - it has come sooner than expected. I know. Some of you may be thinking, "hmm and you're going to Barcelona for the weekend?" Well yeah, it's my TWENTY-FIRST birthday folks, and may I remind the skeptics that Barcelona is a much more cost effective way to celebrate an epic birthday than Dublin (or so I hear). Thankfully I am staying with a good friend who is studying in Barcelona, who happened to be present for the madness of my 20th birthday in Montreal. 

Blame Canada for this birthday

Seriously, that party was crazy and I want nothing more than for all of my glorious friends who attended those festivities to be present with me for my 21st. It really won't be the same without y'all and honestly, I don't want it to be. As was evident last April, usually I treat my birthday as the biggest holiday of the year and the shindig lasts for about a week (sometimes more). But this year I don't really feel like going all out without everyone. All I really have planned so far is a maybe a tour of the Jameson Factory with a proper whiskey tasting to follow and hopefully a trad band playing an Irish rendition of  "Wagon Wheel". Even I can't believe how much I miss hearing that song live. We'll see though, a weekend in Barcelona could change all that ;)

Sunset on our roof

 With all this travel goin' on, it's worked out so that the fine city of Dublin isn't getting much spotlight here. I thought I might throw in some pictures from my Irish adventures for a change. Above is our view from the rooftop of our apartment building. Since we live in a hotel of sorts, finding the roof wasn't too hard. Of course after Sean and I discovered it, we couldn't keep our mouth shut and started showing everyone. Last Friday we went ceili dancing for our music class. Since I hurt my foot over break and couldn't dance, I had no choice but to post up at the bar with a Guinness and some good company.

Music class

Life's pretty good right now. 

I may be broke and slightly injured but I'm also a world traveler and pretty damn happy.