Trip Map and Flight Home

Our trip to the Dublin Airport was something of an adventure, with directions mixed among the guest house receptionist, a taxi cab driver, Belinda and our own instincts, but we did make it. We were very sad to part ways from the Aussie half of the Aussie Yank Tour Team, they heading to the ferry to go back to Wales and we jumping immediately into a bit of chaos.  There were no automatic machines that we could use to put our credit card in and print out our tickets, so we had to stand in a long line.  Security was another long line and I forgot to take my watch off so had to be frisked and they ransacked Nancy's backpack because of her knitting needles.  We didn't understand what the flight schedule board was saying about our flight, mistakenly assuming they would post a gate at any moment.  We got into the wrong line to get our value added tax refund, but finally got that done.  We shopped around a bit and ate some lunch at Burger King, watching the board all the while before deciding to ask what was going on.  Lo and behold, those flying to America had to go through another security routine, apparently to save us from having to do so when we arrived in the States--so another long line.  Thank goodness we asked before it was too late.  The flight was uneventful and we arrived in Newark early.  There was confusion about which luggage return we were to wait at.  In the meantime, I went into panic mode when I could not find my car keys.  They were right where I thought I put them in my backpack, but I hadn't look in the right pouch.  Getting the car was easy, and soon we were on our way home.  We encounter three traffic jams, all seemingly because three lanes were merging into two.  We arrived home a bit before 9:00PM, which would be 2:00AM Greenwich Time.  Soon thereafter we were asleep.