Planning

 Hello Readers,

Taylor and I are planning a trip to Ireland. Neither of us have been to Europe before and so this is a pretty big deal! We decided to go on this trip because we have wanted to travel for some time now and as you know i am currently laid off of work... so we thought... what a great opportunity!How often in life do you have a few months with nothing to do?

Taylor found a good deal on a round trip flight on this deal website he loves and we started making plans. Taylor still needs to hear back from his work to see if he can get time off because its kind of short notice and we will be gone for at least 3 weeks!

The flight lands in Dublin Ireland but we want to explore as much of Ireland as we can manage in the three weeks we are gone!

Then i started researching hostels and i contacted my best friends grandfather who lives in Belfast to see if we could visit him for a few days! He lives near Belfast.

My family is of Irish decent so i contacted my family members that i know have been to Ireland before and have met the family we have over there. My grandfathers sister and her husband! They said that they have contact information for many of the cousins and relatives we have in Ireland! That was so exciting to hear because I would get to spend time with members of my family that i have never had the chance to meet before! I'm not sure exactly where they live yet but i will be contacting them soon to find out!

Now we need to hit the ground running and apply for our passports (which we should have applied for before now) and as soon as Taylor's work lets him know if he has it off work, we need to book the flight!

We need to either buy a backpack or two that can hold a fair amount of stuff, or possibly ask my best friends grandfather if we can bring suit cases and keep them at his house while we travel around!

We also need to look into getting good running shoes that are good for a lot of walking!

We are so excited! I will update this all the time with our planning experience because not only do i think it will be nice for us to remember but helpful to others who want to take a similar trip!

Love Always

SmartyPants xo