Galway Girls

Kelley and I loved Galway so much we decided to book a hostel, grab a bus tick and go again for the weekend! The bus ticket only cost us about 13euro and the hostel was 25euro a night!The weather was incredible (sunny and warm, which doesn't happen often) and our daily adventures were great...

As soon as we arrived in Galway we ran into Luighdai(louie)who is our history professor's cousin and was the one who took us on the pub crawls and the tour of their farm. He immediately recruited us to join him on Friday's pub crawl. We first grabbed dinner at a small cafe which we instantly fell in love with and knew we would be back the next day for breakfast! The night of the pub crawl we met some interesting new people. Most of them were from the Air Force and were just here for the weekend. We had a pretty wild night and I even rode a mechanical bull!

The next day we spent wandering around town and browsed in the little shops. We were basically killing time before the Hurling game which was at 7pm. The town is so cute and has so much character. It's a very different scene than Dublin and has way more charm.

It was a perfect day for Hurling. 13,000 people filled the stadium to watch Galway play Clare in the championship phase 2 game. Kelley and I got into the spirit and supported the Galway team...

It is such an intense sport and I was on the edge of my seat the entire time! The final score was Galway 4-25 and Clare 0-20. The way you can score is to either hit the sliotar (ball) over the goalpost for one point(that's the second score) or under the crossbar into a net guarded by a goalkeeper which equals 3 points (which represents the first number of the score). So Galway scored 4 three point goals and basically dominated Clare.

Sunday morning was really rough because we didn't want to leave! We couldn't get over how incredible the weather was and how nice it was to get away from Dublin. After we checked out of our hostel at 10:30am we had a couple of hours before our bus ride so we spent it outside on the waterfront.