I went downtown after Ann made me full Irish Breakfast sans black and white pudding. Eggs, ham, sausage, bread, tea and milk. SOOO GOOD!
Downtown I picked up the "heritage pass" for 8 euro. It gets me into like every historical site in the country so its a great buy. I walked up the road for about 3o min saw christ cathedral, four courts, the mayors office, the Jamison distillery, a bunch of really cool building, and then made my way to the Guinness Store House to meet up with the group. I downloaded a bunch of walking tours for free so I'm gonna try and do that this week when I have time off.
The store house was great! Very very cool, you got to touch all the ingredients, lean about the history and the process of making guinness. And it looked AMAZING. Very interactive and new. At the top they have a bar that's all glass that is about 15-20 stories up, which is saying something cause almost nothing in the city is more that five stories. the view was incredible. Hills on one side, the Irish Sea on the other, and in between the best view of the city ever.
Afterwards we got pizza and hung out at one of the Australians apartments. Learned a lot about Australia which is cool. It was nice to hang out with them cause the four Australians have kinda stuck together.
Chris was telling us that in the desert if your riding a motor cycle and an emu sees you they'll chase you down and peck you until you are going slower than they are cause they get jealous. I guess about one guy a year dies by emu! Spiders that kill you in 10 seconds run rampant. Not to mention the constant fear of a stray boomerang. Clearly Australia is way to dangerous for the likes of humans.
We went out to go hear a band play traditional Irish music. They were fantastic, the entire place was dancing and what not. Great fun, if packed.
Today was ridiculous. I stayed in the city because we missed the busses last night - they stop running at 11:30 here. Evan and I met up and went to the camogie match (women's hurling). It was the All Ireland Final. All of the Irish were making fun of us this week because no one watches the game at all. I don't know why cause they rocked. Not nearly as good as the guys last week, but they were also about half their size. Vicious i'll tell you, there was an injury about every 5 min. Part of me thinks it was just to get a rest though cause the medics would run out all concerned and sometimes they would literally like pat a girl on the leg and they'd get up and run.
The stadium is HUGE. Brand new a few years ago, state of the art everything. Because no one was there we got second row seats, could have had first because there was no one there - it was raining so everyone but the dumb americans was taking cover. Great game though, neck and neck to the end. Naturally though, being cubs fans Evan and I chose the loosing team - hard to teach an old dog new tricks.
Came back and Ann made me diner - god I'm spoiled.
Then we had to write a paper for our director so he can place us with the right TD's (senators back home). It had to be hand written though, allegedly to see how we work without spell check. Naturally I typed mine and copied it down.
Well now it is too late and I must sleep
night
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