Nothing else really happened yesterday. I took a lengthy nap, like everyone else, and hung out with some girls at a pub. Most of the CEA group was gone to either Dublin for the night, or to Spain in the case of my flat mates. Though we did almost not get our tickets for the bus to Dublin printed. We decided to try to print them around 9 PM then had to wait on everyone to get ready. After walking to NUI's campus, it was nearly 9:40ish so we were feeling some pressure! A nice lady on campus directed us to another computer lab since the library had closed early. Printing credits and such had to be bought and long story short the security man came to lock up before we were actually finished printing. He was nice though and went to lock up other rooms while we finished....definitely just about gave us all a heart attack trying to get it done fast! We decided that deserved a pint ;-)
At 9 AM this morning I met up with Libby, Nicole, and Ali to head into Dublin. The trip actually took less than 3 hours. We spent a lot of the day trying to navigate the city, which is hard! We even had multiple Frommer's maps...not much help. We finally found the way we wanted to go and stopped to eat, where I had my first ever lamb meat :-( but it was good! We saw so many things, some of which I really don't know what they are. I took pictures of the Customs House, Four Courts, Trinity College, Dublin Castle, Parliament building, St. Patrick's Cathedral, and a few more. I love the architecture there. Sometimes it feels like New York but I think the architecture really sets it apart. I definitely love all of the old churches. There was a medieval and viking museum of Dublin I wanted to go see but it was 6.50 to get in and there were other places on our list to get to first. I also wanted to go to the National Museum of Ireland that was free, but once again we ran out of time. There was quite a ruckus going on in the city and we saw rainbow flags everywhere...and we stumbled upon the Dublin Pride parade...which we somehow kept managing to walk in haha. That was definitely a new experience. We wandered around until our legs wanted to fall off and ate at Sweeney's. I had beef and Guinness pie...which was sooo good. We were pretty give out by that point so we decided to start trying to find our pick up point for the bus, which took a little while like we figured. We were there about an hour early but it was nice to just sit by Dublin Port enjoying the weather and sunset. I'd definitely need a few more days to get a feel for the city but I am so happy I chose Galway. I definitely missed my little city today. One driver in Dublin honked his horn at us as we were taking a picture and threw up his middle finger...I suppose he doesn't like tourists. That doesn't happen in Galway. And there were more people living on the streets. I'm definitely glad I got to see Dublin and its historical buildings, but it would swallow me whole. I'm a Galway girl all the way.
Our bus left Dublin at 10:15 so we all grabbed a window seat and conked out. I was definitely disoriented when we got back to Galway because we were in a different place than when we left and I hadn't seen that street. Luckily Nicole knew how to get us back. I was definitely tempted to just get a cab and avoid the 1-2 mile walk back to the apartment since we had been walking all day but we toughed it out and made it. And now I'm going to get some much needed rest!
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