So... It's been awhile.
That's kind of an understatement. I've been back in the states for months.
Based on this blog though... I've been stuck in Ireland for quite awhile.
Not that I'd mind that too much if it were true...
But it's not. So this is what really happened.
The next day we had to check out of our hotel in the morning but we didn't plan on taking a bus to our next stop Cork til a little later in the afternoon. So we left our luggage at the hotel and spent some time walking around the city and looking into all of the various touristy souvenir shops on the main street. I think this was the day that I got my claddagh ring. I was very excited about that. I've wanted one for awhile and Galway is where the original design comes from. So naturally I had to go to the original shop and get my ring. It was more expensive than the ones you can find in other shops but I like that it has "original" stamped into the back of it. And none of the other ones sold other places can look exactly like it.
Once we got through all the shopping we wanted to do I think we might have picked up subway to take on the bus with us for lunch... That may be a fabricated memory, but it could have happened. We picked up our bags at the hotel and then made the short walk to the bus station. It was early afternoon by this time. So it was probably like a 12 or 1 o'clock bus that we took. And it was a few hours ride to cork. I probably slept some of it. Or we might have watched something on my laptop. It's the little things like that that are getting fuzzy in my memory. But we got into cork in the late afternoon/early evening.
The hotel was a pretty short walk from where the bus let us off. It was different looking on the outside, had a lot of character. The lady at the front desk was really nice I remember and the room was pretty big compared to some of the other rooms we'd stayed in. The bathroom was still pretty small but that was fine. And the color scheme was red I remember that.
After we got settled in we decided to take advantage of it being a Friday, a late shopping day. So we walked around the city looking in different shops. We also got something for dinner. I think this might have been the day that we went somewhere that Emily could get irish stew. We also may have stopped by a little minimart to get some little things to eat for breakfast the next morning. Then it was back to the hotel to spend some time on the internet to check bus routes and times for our journey to the blarney castle the next day.
This might have been more detailed and more accurate if I had posted it 4 months ago... but you've got the gist of it anyway.
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