July 10th, 2008 (En Route Dublin, Ireland)

-Kenton

My wife drove me to the O'hare airport today and dropped me off. We said our farewells and I went inside. I met Julie at the ticket desk, her father dropped her off, she had arrived shortly after I did. We were flying continental because they had the cheapest tickets at the time we were looking. The woman at the front desk said flights to Newark(where we had a layover) were running late. It was too early in the trip to be already getting bad news. After we checked in we headed towards our gate.
We got to our gate and took a seat and started to wait.... and wait... an wait... then finally our plane showed up! But they had a small technical issue that needed to be looked at, so we waited...... and waited.... and waited.... then they were ready! So we got on the plane and started to head towards the runway, then we stopped... and we sat.... and sat..... and sat... for about an hour before we finally took off.
Luckily we had planned for this and choose a pretty long layover in Newark so the delays didn't affect us catching our connecting flight to Dublin. In fact our flight to Dublin was about an hour an a half delayed so we had more than plenty of time. We were able to grab one last American meal before we left. Julie had a fillet o' fish, I had a hot dog with kraut. Soon after we were on the plane and headed to London.
The flight there was pretty good. We got dinner and breakfast. Neither were great but they weren't horrible. he best part of the flight was a personal on-demand entertainment screen that everyone had on the head rest in front of them. You had lots of movies, television shows, and games you could choose from. I watched "Be Kind Rewind" and "Drillbit Taylor" while Julie watched "Run Fat Boy, Run!" and "Catch Me If You Can". I don't think she meant to have a theme about her choice of movies but the titles definitely go together.
It was about 8:30 in the morning when we finally touched down in Dublin. We went got our passport stamped and head to get our bag and go through customs. We were expecting a big search when we got to customs but we just got waived on with no questions or searching at all. Then after talking to a friendly attendant outside who showed us where to catch our buses we were on our way to Dublin Town Center.