Galway Girl

Insert tacky youtube video full of slow motion segments & montage photos of PS. I Love You here:

 

Saturday morning Emily, Kelly, John, & I took off on a bus for Galway, Ireland. It was only an hour and a half ride and I listened to music the whole time, constantly amazed at what was. Set the scene: I'm a 21 year old college student staring at green pastures full of sheep and various castle look-a-likes traveling to an Irish city by a bay for the weekend. How great is this?

There were a lot of street performers who did totally normal things like pretend they didn't have heads. If only I was this popular. 

Free soup!

A band we watched for quite awhile. They played Mumford & Sons, 

Kings of Leon, & Snow Patrol.

 Yes, please.

Kelly & I and our crepes

 Emily, John, Me, & Kelly

 Almost possible

 I love how "pura vida" has to be translated into pure life on the sign. Oh, but it is so much more than that...

Gloomville

After only a minute or two of walking off the bus I ran into one of my roommate's previous roommate from Point Loma on the street corner! I knew that she was somewhere in that city but didn't expect to see someone I recognized off the streets randomly like that, super crazy.
The 4 of us stayed in a hostel in a room with 2 strangers. Lucky for us, one of them was a 30-something-year-old russian spy named Miroslav Vladimir who snored louder than Gulliver the giant during the entire night. This must be what winning the lottery feels like.

How I know i'm not at home:
-Ketchup is called "red sauce."
-Most sinks i've seen have two faucets, one for vanilla and the other for chocolate. Or, for hot and cold... which still only leaves me with two extremes.
-I still catch myself in a moment of shock as my eyes suddenly focus on an 8 year old sitting in the driver's seat of a car... WHAT?!?! Oh, things are different here.
-Its not 70 degrees in January.
-There's a lot of people smoking on the streets
-McDonalds has curly fries and also costs 100x more