we walked across a bridge in the slightly frigid weather and went into a pub called Panama...the place was dead but so were we so we decided to sit anyways. We walked in to find this place was enormoussss and looked like a sick bar to go to at night. we had the paninis of a lifetime for lunch then decided to find the guinness storehouse to take the tour. We found our way there and first began the tour by walking around and seeing how the beer was made as these tours usually are...then in the middle they give you a taste test. This is where we first got yelled at a bit for not drinking the beer right, we fixed our problem then continued on our way. Then later in the tour we learn how to pour our own beer. Some of us are slightly retarded (cough cough KAITIE) haha and cant follow simple directions and did it all wrong, yet again leaving us to be slightly yelled at by one of the irish workers again lol. We all gathered out certificates and went upstairs to the rooftop bar they have to drink our beers we had just poured in such a professional manner. As we were sitting upstairs and drinking the guy who told kaitie how she was pouring all wrong came over and started chatting w/ us. he was really cool and gave us another round of guinness on the house. we finished up and left to go to the gift shop b/c it was almost closing time for the bar and the storehouse. As we were leaving, the guy who told us we were drinking wrong, accompanied by the guy who told kaitie she was pouring wrong along with their friends started talking to us as they were leaving work and told us guinness amateurs to come join them at a pub and start a long night of drinking with them.
After a great night we mainly hung out with for the rest of our time in ireland. they took us to this awesome fancy looking pub first for a few drinks..then to a crazy pub that was hugeeee that happened to be right near our hostel. in so many words, we spent the next 8 hrs or so drinking, singing along with the live bands,(some of use making out with the 3 new friends of ours haha), dancing around and enjoying the irish atmosphere just as you would imagine after seeing it in a movie lol. It was one of the greatest nights of our trip i would say.
The next morning after rolling out of bed (hardly) we decided we wanted to see the countryside of ireland. We picked a bus tour that takes you out of the city and visits the shore as well as a castle in the outskirts of ireland. This was a great idea, especially after we had fantastic bagels for breakfast haha (its the little things in life that made us so happy) We had a great day sightseeing, of course while keeping in contact with our new guinness-worker buddies and made plans to meet up that night again. That night they took us to a few more pubs, this time where they made like 20 of their own beers and the music was a bit different. They quite entertaining as well as a few more guys that came along this time and we all had fun dancing around and being dumb while drinking, pretty much all you need to have a night of fun haha.
The next day was our last day in dublin. We clearly made a B-line to the bagel store asap then went shopping for the day before we went to the airport to go to LONDON! We bought sooo many gifts and fun things, saw a bunch of really good musicians playing in the streets, got interviewed for a college documentary about the election that happened the night before, then grabbed a drink at a pub and met up with one of our new friends then went to the airport. DUBLIN WAS AMAZING! im highly considering moving there for a few months in the fall. ;0)
That night we arrived in London and Matt, jess's friend who was with us at oktoberfest picked us up and brought us to his house where we were staying for the night. We quickly met matt and kevins mother was was soooo nice, we changed, and went to a local bar with matt kevin tom and their friend. We hung out at the bar, drank these amazing drinks then went back to their house to play some Wii (which i think i miss more than my own mother haha), susan and i snuggled and watched entourage, then we went to sleep so we could get up early and head into the city of London bright and early the next day. It was so good to be in a house with a mom, we havent done that in soooo long, not to mention the neighborhood/ town they live in looks exactly like greenwich so it kinda felt liek being home.
So the next day we went to london on the tube w/ matt, tom came and picked up our suitcases and brought them to his and his brothers flat in london where we'd be staying that night. we spent the day sightseeing all over with our tour guide mr. matt and split up halfway through so he could meet up with his fam for their dads bday. we eventually found our way to tom's flat which was absolutely amazinggggg. we were told that one night there we were going to a bar, another a club so we were def ready to drink. we ended up going to the club the first night there. we went to dinner near the flat, went to the hotel across the street for a few drinks, then got ready and went out.
The club we went to was sick. We had a table with an enormous bottle of belvedere and started drinking heavily. Lets just say i blacked out quite early that night, apparently when we left i went in one of those bike/taxi things with tom...then all i remember is throwing up (for the first time in the 4 months ive been away i swear! haha) and kaitie and others trying to help me then putting me to sleep. Not my best performance but i suppose that happens to everyone at one time or another.
That next day we spent hanging around the flat and taking it easy, we clearly needed it. We were reallll london-ers, we watched rugby and soccer aka football all day and just relaxed. We gathered ourselves together later that afternoon to take a bus tour of london. the bus tour was really fun but unfortunately very cold and drizzly so we did that then walked around and made it back to the flat. we got ready then went to dinner close by to the flat again, got a few more drinks at the hotel, then as we were going to go out it down poured. instead of making the trip to go out we decided to get alcohol and drink in the flat that night. we all snuggled up and drank and watched movies and just took it easy.
the next morning we woke up, packed up our things for tom to bring back to matts for us before we left then we got back to his house around 2. Their mom had cooked us some amazzzzzingggg lasangne as a lovely meal right before we left for the airport. we had such a great time with kevin matt tom and toms brothers and it was a great ending to our 10 day trip. We went back to rome that night and although we were happy to be relaxed we were upset that we were spoiled with 10 days of english speaking people. back to rome we went where people are pushy, smelly, and dont enjoy americans as much as the people in the other countries we had just been in do.
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