To answer a few questions:
A week.
We didn't get that far south, but we were told that it actually tastes like urine I guess the locals find it amusing...
My sister-in-law came and stayed at our place with the kids. Melissa won this trip from Xerox.
Not really, they're just EVERYWHERE! A few more and it would have looked like Indiana.
Kinda, but they call them "Traditional Irish Breakfast" Stay away from the "black pudding" which is actually a blood sausage.
The pics with P101xxxx are from my digital camera - an Olympus C4000Z. The ones with 000_00 are from my wife's point-and-shoot film camera. I didn't think they developed very well - kinda colorless and grainy.
There was a bit of that, but what was really weird (in a good way) was the huge groups of girls out pub-crawling wearing matching outfits (hats, vests, devil horns etc). We thought they might be bachelorette parties, but didn't see any bachelor parties out and about. That whole Temple Bar area gets NUTS!