Pubs

7/13 (Friday)
-Rise and shine! Feed chickens/ shower/ do some gardening in the pollyrtunnel with the girls (very midgey outside)/ take dogs for a last walk (and play in the stream of course)/ a few rounds of Spoon/girls give us some Russian candies for a present/  feast on a thanksgiving-like meal made by svetlana /say our sad goodbyes to the girls/  hop in car with feral/ 2.5 hour drive to Dublin (awkward silence, sleep most of the time)!!
- Katie and I walk through the rain, of course, and check into our amazing hostel! "famous hostels" is a sort of chain around Europe for backpackers and it's a great place to stay for socializing especially, and meeting cool people of course!
- Anyways, we checked in and jetted off to see the city! It was already around 6pm and we decided to splurge and eat at a highly recommended Lebanese restaurant.
- after dinner we went back to our hostel and bought our pub crawl tickets and then got all spruced up. So excited for our first pub crawl because everyone who goes on em always has a blast. And where better to do one than in Ireland??
- the pub crawl was amazingly fun as we met tons of young people traveling all around, got free drinks, spent WAY too much money on more drinks, hung out with our new Swiss friends and accidentally got separated from the crawl, listened to live Irish music at all the different clubs, got a free bike carriage ride, returned home at 4am, played some pool and guitar, then finally went to bed! Phew!

7/14
- I was awoken constantly by noise outside, and ended up getting maybe 2 hours of sleep before having to check out. Not my favorite.
- after bfast, we met up with a free walking tour and saw the sights of Dublin! It was a bit long and not THAT interesting but our tour guide was great and we still enjoyed seeing all of the cute city.
- famished by the time it ended, we had surprisingly good burritos for lunch as the fatigue really started to set it.
- we attempted to shop and walk around but I felt incredibly heavy and my feet were refusing to move forward. We eventually went back to the hostel where we were keeping our bags and just sat on the couch.
- at some point we ran into our Swiss friends who then convinced us to do the pub crawl again because it was free the 2nd night.  Why not??
- we grabbed a bite and it was pub crawl round 2!! We hung with the guys again but this time managed to stick with the group. Marcel and Marco were great company! Before the end of the night we made Marcel watch the "marcel the shell YouTube video" :)
- we meandered home at around 3am, grabbed our luggage, said our goodbyes, and hopped on a shuttle to the airport! All I wanted to do was sleep.