this weekend.

Last night was great. After Ireland beat France in the 6 Nations rugby match, a few of us headed out on the town. We enjoyed some dinner at Supermacs, one of Ireland’s finest fast-food restaurants, then headed to a pub called The Hairy Lemon. We had heard great things about it and walked by a few times, so we finally decided to go. This place was PACKED. Literally at some points we wouldn't be able to move because of the number of people surrounding us. Nevertheless, it was really fun and we laughed so much. We met a lot of interesting people, including some man that works for Waterford Crystal and is apparently really important there. He was also old enough to be our grandfather so we moved on rather quickly from that part of the pub. Anyways, we ventured on from there after a while and after meeting some friends, discovered a pub/club that had a sign on the door saying, "No Bombs Please." Although it was comforting to know there were no bombs allowed, we made our way to a place that was a little more rocker-y. In fact, I saw someone who resembled Ozzy Osbourne. Seriously. I was also told by the bouncer before entering (who had a grand total of 1 tooth) that I had "lovely cheek bones." Hilarious. By the end of the night we ended up at Fitzsimon's which is one of our usual hang outs where we listened to some great live music and pretended like we knew the words to the songs. I was also informed about what a Kangaroo's pounch really looks like inside while talking to some people from Australia. Good to know.

Now I will share with you a list of things that you may not know about Ireland:

-Their police officers don’t carry guns.
-The teenagers are frightening.
-There is a gummy candy called Jelly Babies.
-It doesn’t go a full 24 hours without raining.
-You have to bring your own bag to put groceries in.
-They don’t sell Snakebites in Cork.
-There are a lot of French people.
-Fries are called chips and chips are called crisps. Tricky.
-People will ask you “where’s the craic (sounds like crack)?” which means “where’s the fun?” and not drugs. Also tricky.
-All Irish children have to learn how to Irish dance (Riverdance style) in primary school.
-They will charge you less if you get your food "to go".
-Wicklow National Park is not in Wicklow.

And here is a picture just because.