Crawling toward the End of a Great Week!

Night 33 & Day 34: July 19 & 20, 2012

            After we made it back safely to Galway from the Big Island we had planned to do the Galway Pub Crawl with the rest of the students from my group. It was a great idea! We had an absolutely time. There were sixteen of us total in the group so we got a 5 euro discount on our tickets. The crawl started around 9pm with two leaders and 55 crawlers. We moved from pub to pub, staying at each for about an hour. We got discounted drink specials and a free shot at each pub.

The group headed to our 2nd stop!

Emily, Kelly, Haley, and Me at Kelly's Pub!

            Our favorite place was this bar called Coyotes. It was decorated in everything American. Right when we got in we saw the stars and stripes, the Johnny Cash posters, and the band was playing Wagon Wheel. We knew this would be the best stop on the crawl! Downstairs they had a mechanical bull, which took Emily and I back to some good times at Saddle Ridge (R.I.P). We both took our turns on the bull and we eventually convinced Haley to get up and ride the bull and she did great!!

           After Coyotes we went this club called Karma. It was set up like a rainforest or Aztec city inside. I’m pretty sure the only people there were all the pub crawlers so we eventually left and went back to Coyotes for a little bit. It was a great way to end the night!

            Emily and Haley had to be out of their hotel at noon on the following day so once they brought their hundreds of pounds of luggage over to my apartment we headed out to do some final shopping and exploring of Galway City. Each of the girls added another few pounds of gifts to their bags. We headed back to my place and started planning their way home. It caused a few stressful situations, but in the end we got to bed early because the girls had to catch what we thought was the 5:05 am bus (the same one I caught going to Dublin the previous week) only I forgot one minor detail. I traveled to Dublin on a Friday and they were traveling on a Saturday. The train doesn’t go that early in the morning on weekends, but thankfully they were able to catch a bus headed to Dublin at 5:15 and they made it back home safely (after a few bumps along the way).

I’m hoping the girls will write something for me about their trip so that I can post it soon! Only a couple days and posts left! Hope you’ve enjoyed reading so far! Thanks for keeping up with them!