So, I'm here in my dressing room in dublin.  I just played my show in this beautiful old theater here called The Olympia.  Today I got a chance to walk around a little in the snow fall.  Yesterday I blew my whole day by sleeping in till 3pm.  Jet lag.  But today I headed over to Trinity College and walked past a Library there on campus.  I heard that it had the Book of Kells (back from 800 AD) there, but I'm not really into that stuff, and so I headed over to the National Library instead (from 1890).  I was so excited as the guard showed me how to use the neat little electronic lockers and made me hang my coat up so I wouldn't steal anything.  I climbed the giant staircase where I pictured skyscraper shelves of books to be.  Instead, I found a reading room.  It was a beautiful reading room to be sure, but um....the only books there (albeit great old books) were ones on like, geneology and information.  Basically, nothing with stories.  I later found out that the library I really wanted to go to was the one I walked right by on campus, where the Book of Kells was.  :(  But I enjoyed this library anyway, because there was a wonderful Yeats exhibit there.  I saw the actual paper he scrawled his poetry on.  So cool! 

I have to say, Dublin's got some great food and of course, some great bars.  It took me a couple days to really wrap my head around how old this city is.  I hear there's a bar in Dublin that's older than the United States!!!  I went out to the Temple Bar area, granted it was a Sunday, but there was still so much life on the streets.  Dancing, singing, laughing....  the people here seem like a very passionate people.  I can see it in the way they walk, and run to catch their buses, and cross the street.  It's really beautiful.  

It's always been a dream of mine to come to Ireland every since I was a little girl, but I never knew how it would or could happen.  And here I am....singing in great beautiful theaters no less!  Sometimes I really gotta stop and look and then see and then say, "wow.  thanks."