Day 20 A Little Class and A Little Sightseeing

Since our papers were due on day 20, we had a half day of class with the idea being that the second half of the day could be spent finishing our papers.  Thankfully, my paper was done as were many of my friends so we decided to spend the second half of the day seeing some of the things we still hadn't seen yet in Galway.  We finished class, met with our group for a little while (we had a group presentation due on Friday), then headed back to the dorms for a little while.  I did a little laundry as after class ended on Saturday, I still had another week of traveling to do so I needed clean clothes.  Once again the washing machine did not like me and it took like 10 minutes to get it to work.  I will very much miss Ireland, but I will NOT miss that washing machine.  Also ran an errand with Jen because Susan, another woman in our class, had a birthday the next day so we went to a bakery across the street so Jen could get her some treats.  I bought myself some treats while we were there.  Once the laundry was done, we headed in town for some sightseeing, eating, and drinking.  Our first stop was St. Nicholas Church--we took the scenic route, yeah, we got lost, but we eventually made it. Then we walked around a bit and decided to head to Salt Hill again since the sun was actually shining.  It was a bit of a walk--I got over 30,000 steps that day woohoo--but it was nice.  I couldn't believe how many more people were out since the weather was so nice.  There were even people on the beach and in the water.  I kicked the wall again--I earned it this time since I walked the length of it instead of like last time when we took a taxi part way in.  We had drink at a pub in Salt Hill then headed back to town via Taxi.  We stopped at Shaun and Charlene's B and B to see how the B and B
people lived then went into town for a late dinner. We finally found a place that was open.  It was called Biteclub and the interesting things about it were you could eat kind of outside, you were like part in part out if that makes sense and they had Prosseco on tap.  I had fish tacos--holy spicy!  I downed my water, yikes!  They were good once I figured out to pull off the red chili things.  And by I figured out, I clearly meant someone told me to do that.  Fries were decent and I had a Nutella brownie for dessert.  I haven't had a lot of Nutella, but it was quite good.  And of course I "had" to try the Prosecco on tap for the novelty of it.  :-)  (I also had my newest drink of choice, Orchard Thieves.)  After that we went to the Quays, which was fun.  I left a little early with Kerry and Christine, but I really could have stayed since we ended up talking until after 2am.  Then Jen, etc came to my window on their way back so let's just say I stayed up way TOO late chatting with friends that night.  Good thing we didn't have to be anywhere until 11 the next day.  I got about 6 hours of sleep, ugh!  The idea this week seems to be, it's our last week, we have to make the most of every moment.  Who needs sleep?  

  Inside St. Nicholas

  Someone playing Kayakball. I still need to google this sport.  This guy told us about it earlier in the trip because none of us had heard of it, but I keep meaning to look it up.

  Posing for pictures in Salt Hill

Proseco on tap.