Been a while...

Hmm, been a while since I last posted, sorry about that. So I have pictures, but there's a lot of good ones on other peoples' cameras, so I'm going to wait until I can get them before I post up a bunch of pictures for you all.

Nothing terribly exciting for this post. On Wednesday, after our class got out at 9pm, Devon's coworkers took me and him out to a pub and fed us booze all night. It was great, they wouldn't let us pay for anything. After the pubs closed we ended up going over to one of their apartments and hung out and kept drinking with them until about 4:30 in the morning. We ended up getting back here to Shanowen at 5:30, and I was 2 hours late to work Thursday morning. Everyone at work was really cool about it though, they just laughed at me and told me not to worry about it. Obviously I don't plan on making a habit of it, but it's nice to know that the people at work are understanding and don't mind that I put having fun infront of work from time to time. When they asked me how drunk I was the night before, this is how I explained it (because I thought it was kind of funny):

On the walk to the taxi rink (about 2 miles), me and Devon found 4 bottles of milk that had crested their sell-by date outside of a SPAR (the Irish version of 7-11, they just leave it out there for homeless people to take). They were still cold, so we grabbed em. I managed to drink a one-liter bottle of milk to myself without getting sick on the walk to the taxi rink. But we were both drunk enough that none of the other bottles made it back to Shanowen with us, because we kept dropping them on the ground and eventually they all burst open.

Anyways, Kathleen's parents were around so we went out to Temple Bar with them on Thursday night and then called it a night early on. On Friday morning, we went to a place called Collin's Barracks, which is an old military barracks that has since been turned into a museum. I was expecting it to be a military museum, but it was actually just a bunch of random Irish artifacts, etc. I had brought my camera to take pictures, but there were people in almost every room who would yell at you for taking pictures, so I only shot off a few. Erin also got a few pictures, so I'll grab those from her and once I can consolidate everyone's recent pictures, I'll post those all up.

The Stonehill girls decided to stay in on Friday night, but me and Devon went out and met up with these two other girls we had met, Colleen and Courtney. They're lucky enough to live right in the city center, so we went to their apartment, hung out for a while, and then went bar hopping. We ended up falling asleep (more realistically, passing out) in the wee hours of the morning on some couches they had in their living room and then caught a bus back here today. Seeing as we had two crazy nights of drinking on Wednesday and Friday, only separated by a night of light drinking on Thursday, Devon and I decided to stay in tonight and take it easy while the Stonehill girls went out and did their own thing. The past few days have certainly been pretty crazy, but I assure you all that I am not turning into an alcoholic (I wouldn't be able to afford it)

Coming up next week, Devon and I are going to be heading to Amsterdam! I'll be sure to take pictures and update you all on some stories when I get back. I've got 10 weekends left here (man, it's already been almost a month. Time flies...) and I'm hoping I'll get the chance to do a lot more traveling. I know I'll definitely be going to London, since one of the girls here has a friend in London who offered up his flat for us to sleep in. I have a friend in Italy who I can stay with, so I'm going to try and get there sometime in November. Other than that, I'm going to try to get to Galway/the Aran Islands, and Belfast. Maybe one or two other places too, if I can swing the funds.

Anywho, until next time.