We spent a total of five nights in Kilarney. Which includes arriving at noon one day, and leaving at 10am on the last. For the majority of the time in Kilarney, we didn't do the proper touristy things. In fact, we didn't do any.
We spent the four full days in Killarney doing the local things. Like eating Irish stew, and drinking. Actually we ate Thai food in there once also. But the drinking in the pubs was the local part I'm refering to.
On sunday we were going to go to the national park and walk around & see the tourist sites but that didn't happen. See, at 3pm was the biggest football game in Ireland. The All-Ireland final match of the season. It was either county Kerry (where we were) and county Tyrone. So we had to go. So in the morning we went to this cute little church we had seen, and went for the service. And we walked around in the sunshine until game time, and headed to a local pub to watch. It was quite interesting.
It wasn't football like the europeans play. Apparently Ireland is the only country that plays that way. Its like a cross between American Football, soccer, and rugby. Hilarious. The players can hold the ball and run, as long as it touches the ground after a few seconds. They can be rough (shoving and stuff), and there's two different ways to score. A normal one point goal is getting the ball between two american football post type things. The second type is worth 3 points and there was only one scored the entire game. You have to get the ball in the soccer net. So they have two different score places. Example: Kerry - 0-11, Tyrone 1-10. Because they have a one in the first spot, they actually have more points than Kerry. Confusing! We had no idea what was going on.
And we were quite sad when Kerry didn't win, cause Killarney would have gone wild if they had. it would have been quite fun. Instead everyone seemed to stay and drink at home. Or at least we think so. We went to bed quite early as we needed to be checked out the next morning.
Now we are in Cork, which a really big city in comparison. I don't know how big it actually is, but someone told me it was tiny, and boring. Absolutely wrong. The buildings are all so gorgeous. We sat and had lunch right beside a river, just down the street from our hostel today. I'll put up pics as soon as I can. Tomorrow we are doing our first actually touristy thing! Go us! We are going to go visit Blarney Castle and the Blarney Stone.
Then the next morning we head to Galway, which I am very excited for. We spend 4 nights in Galway, and 3 in Dublin before Kayla heads home. I have no idea what i'm doing after that. I've seen so many 'Help wanted' signs its really tempting to stay here, I love it. I might go to the Mediteranean until I run out of money, and come back here. :D
Ta for now
