Catching up on the last two days

// April 27th, 2008 // Ireland, Travel

Friday after visiting the Cliffs of Moher I left my aunts in Clare and headed back to Galway to spend my last two nights with my cousins before I headed off to Dublin today.

On Friday night I met up with my cousins Kevin, Johnny, and Olly out at Donoghues, a pub that is walking distance from my cousin Kev’s house. We met up there and it was cool to catch up with everyone again over endless rounds of pints. Every time I took a sip of a new pint, I had another full one in my other hand and one waiting on the bar. It was crazy. I’m not a big drinker back home and I don’t drink nearly as much in a year as they do in a weekend. Haha.

After we chatted over a few pints we headed across the street to grab some late night chow before heading back to Kev’s to crash. We grabbed a couple pizzas and headed back to his house and about 5 minutes after I downed the pizza, I was in bed.

Early the next morning my uncle swung by to pick me up and I headed back to his house for a shower and we had planned to visit some more relatives before heading into Galway to meet up with my cousin Michelle. We stopped in to some relatives for a few then we were off to grab lunch at Fat Freddie’s, a nice little pizza joint in the city. The food was great, and I had one last good chat with my aunt and uncle before heading off to meet my friend Colin.

Colin and I headed over to the Spanish Arch which is an area where most students and young adults tend to hang out when its sunny. It’s right on the edge of a river, I’m not sure what the river is called exactly but it’s a real cool spot when it’s nice out. Everyone goes down there, brings a few beers and socializes with friends. A few of Michelle’s roommates came down and hung out with us and we spent a couple of hours chit chatting and planning what we’d do later that night in Galway.

Later that night we hung out and had a few drinks at Michelle’s and then headed into the city around 11:30PM to Halo, a “winners” nightclub in Galway as Peter would say. When he says “winner”, he means people that are too cool, real preppy, stuck up, etc. Too funny! As we showed up at Halo, the line was probably 200 people deep, but it went surprisingly quick. We were in within 15 minutes maybe. The club itself was crazy. It had two floors, more than a few bars and a shockingly small dance floor, but I guess they’d rather have everyone drinking and socializing rather than dancing because you weren’t allowed to bring drinks on the floor. As usual the drinks were very expensive, nevermind a cover charge of 13 Euro ($20.29), and a round of drinks for 3 people was 17 Euro ($26.53). Put it this way, its 4.70 Euro ($7.34) for a Bud Bottle. Pretty damn expensive if you ask me!

Peter, Colin and I ended up dancing up a storm on the dance floor until the night came to an end. It was a great time. Colin wouldn’t stop buying me rounds of whiskey. Another first for me. Never had whiskey in my life until last night. Yuck! I had planned on staying somewhat sober because my aunt and uncle were coming up from Dublin to pick me up this morning and it was a three hour drive back so I wanted to make sure I was in good shape. Shockingly enough, I was fine this morning.

And finally I’m back in Dublin! A three hour car ride later and I’m back here hanging at my uncle and aunts place just outside the city. Tomorrow we’re going to head into the city, I haven’t been in there in about a year and a half now. I can’t wait. I love DUBLIN!

Until next time…