Galway....its Grand

First bank holiday of the Summer was a definite success.....Traveled to Galway via the cram-packed sweltering train and spent 3 fabulously warm days there. It hasnt rained in days and days...Brilliant.....
Saturday we arrived at around 5 and hung out for a few in the hotel and then headed out for the nite. We hit up the Kingshead pub...one of the most jammed places in town, i believe they also said it was the oldest but dont quote me on that. We met up with the other MSUers there, they were stopped for the nite in Galway while on a paddy wagon 3 day tour. We parted from them and made our way to quay street (oddly enough quay is actually pronounced key), seems in Galway is it totally kosher to drink on the streets. Enjoyed a snake bite there and the headed off for Cuba, a brilliant nite club where we witnessed a real live irish pearl jam cover band...who knew they even existed? Actually they were mindly impressive...sarah believes they were titled "the pearls"... but for their sake i hope she made that up. I think its worth noting that someone asked me if i was asian on this nite...apparently i have squintly eyes and have now switched my accent from canadian/mexican to chinese...quite an accomplishment if you ask me.
Sunday we woke up super super early...and took a bus then a ferry to the Aran Islands, most specifically the largest island Inis Moore....super super spectacular....prolly the most beautiful place ive seen in my life. We rented bicycles...the dream was for me and megan to rent a tandem bike but no such luck, i had to embark on meerly a one seater. The ride was unbelievable....nothing like a good breeze off the ocean blowing on while u enjoy the scenery...ahhh...the memories..ahhaha. If i had to choose 2 words to sum up the island i would for sure choose, cows and stones. Lots of rocks used to build walls, forts, huts for monks....very well constructed. I believe this is the first time in my entire life that i was kept amused by rocks for 7 hours. The Cliffs were the most impressive part of the whole trip. 300 ft tall...o god horrifying...i layed on my stomache and looked over the edge...i couldnt believe the drop. They told us that no one has ever died by falling off....i find that rather hard to believe. It was great craic. We then returned to Galway with brutal sunburn...who knew u needed sunscreen in ireland? (FYI sunscreen costs a biggillion euros here)...Forced ourselves to get ready and go out...hit up the worst place ive been to prolly EVER...gpo is not cool...then we went and drank on quay, where we actually tricked some natives into buying us all cowboys hats and roses off the street vendor. The hat is pink i was pretty pleased with it.
Monday, after the rest of group left, me and sarah stayed behind to hit up the beaches. We went to Silver Strand...enjoyed it immensely.....though saw a little too much of many of the men, speedos are soo not cool. Although its better than the guy on the Aran Islands who felt it was appropriate to just remove his pants on the beach and walk around in his whitie tighties,,,which were actually not white at all but grey. GROSS!! Anyways...afterwards we caught the late train home nad made new irish best friends with some native galwayers who know live in Dublin. They actually met on the train down there and decieded to ride home together and as luck would have it, they sat down next to us. Which turned out absolutely savage bc they fed us budweisers the whole way home. And then we all want to The Market for a few pints afterwards...ease into the work week ya know?.....
All and All i would say it was a very successful trip....good craic...I highly reccommend a trip to Galway or at the very least the Aran Islands....wish we could have checked out the other two but no time....i need to catch up on my sleep for sure..CHeers!!!