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Day 26
The luxury of my own room and a comfortable bed combined with my exhaustive 3 day tour kept me in bed far later than I am normally there.

Rory and Michele had some errands to run so they set me up on their computer and I got to work on catching up with the blog. I love the blog and I like that I have something that I am accountable for, there just isn't always a place to upload pictures for a while. It's very easy to get very behind. I did keep journals on my previous trips, however they were not day by day and I feel that I lost a lot of memories because of that. The blog keeps me writing every day so that 50 years from now I will be able to remember every minute of this trip. So please forgive me if I am behind or if I'm boring for a day on occasion while I update the blog.

I wasn't boring all day. When Rory and Michele returned we headed across the street to the Dracula Experience. The experience started with some scary music and facts about Bram Stroker. He was bedridden until he was 7 and no one thought that he would survive. Part of his weakness was due to his doctors continual bloodletting. When he did regain his health he became a great sportsman and grew to over 6 feet tall.

He briefly worked at Dublin Castle where he wrote a book to standardize clerk office rules throughout Ireland. The woman he married, I forgot her name, also dated Oscar Wilde for a bit.

Eventually Stroker moved to London to run the Lyceum Theater. He also published books at this time. Dracula was one of his later books and really the only on that people recognize.

The actual experience took you through the book Dracula. It was pretty corny, but still made me jump a few times when things popped out at me. None of the movies or interactive bits were working. Still, it was a good laugh.

The three of us then headed to a local place called The Yacht for a Sunday roast. For a small price we each had a huge and fabulous dinner.

It was deceivingly late (it stays light for quite a while here) when we got back to their apartment. To stay in the Dracula mood we watched the 1983 movie with Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves. I would definitely recommend it!