Baby Guinness'...new obsession!

Wednesday: Had a full day of work and then headed home. Decided to go out with a group of my housemates for 'Australia Day' (which apparently is big here?...when in the commonwealth...?) And the bar was really crowded so my roommate Emily and I decided it wasn't worth even getting a drink and instead came home, I read for a presentation I had the next morning and got some extra sleep.

Thursday: Had my London class (my presentation went real well!), then lunch at the student union with the girls, followed by my Modern Brit class. Then we went to this bar O'Neils that we really liked a few weeks ago and it was really fun once again. We kept drinking our new favorite thing, snakebites, its beer and some sort of wine and...its pink! Haha

At O'neils with our Snakebites

Friday: woke up real early, took the tube to a bus, the bus to Gatwick airport...Emily and I set off the sensors (from our belts/boots) and got 'searched' by this women who basically strip searched us in the middle of the airport...to close for comfort. We then flew and hour to Shannon, Ireland and had a two hour bus ride to Galway. Kelly met us at the bus and we got to see her and the other girls apartments. We then got a little walking tour from Kelly and Hannah and went to dinner and had fabulous pizza (which we've missed so much) and we then showered, got ready, pregamed and went to the bars. All the traveling kicked my ass tho, I was soooo tired and slept like a baby.

Me & Kel by the colorful houses!

SJU takes over Galway!

Saturday: We woke up at 11 and then got bagels (which we've also missed in London) and then the girls took us shopping, which I had a field day! The Euro is already less than the Pound and they had this store Pennies that had skirts for 2 euro and such...soo great! We then walked to their campus and got to see their cathedral. Galway is such a cool city, its beautiful and see easily walkable! It was nice getting a feel for the city with our friends who are all basically locals! We then went to a market and looked around and after went back and watched episodes of Friends and chilled out. We got Mexican for dinner, the food in Galway was surprisingly sooooo good and it seemed more American than British food. We then showered and got ready and went to the bar. I had my first baby guinness shot (there is not guinness in it, and its so good!) and then listened to this live band do real good covers and I found Chrissy Malkinski at the bar since she was visiting Galway with friends from her program (she's studying in Cork) so it was great seeing her too! Then we went to get fries at this place Courtney is in love with (even tho she was only visiting for the week she was obsessed hahah) and it was really good! We then went to bed and passed out!

City of Galway

The Cathedral

Roomies on NUI Galway Campus

I found Chrissy at a bar in Galway :)

Sunday: Woke up at 615...took the bus to Shannon, flew back to Gatwick, to the bus back from Gatwick to the tube station and then passed out for 3 hours upon arrival home. Then Emily and I basically went on a date at a little Italian place around the corner because we had no food left in our house. After that I reorganized my room and cleaned a little and then fell asleep.



Monday: I had work in the morning, nothing too exciting happened. I'm feeling very "London-esque" reading a book on the tube in the mornings now. I then traveled to St. Paul's station because my Art class was being held at St. Paul's Cathedral. It was a beautiful day out and we climbed to the second level but of course the top was under renovation. (Mom be glad we didn't do that when I was younger, the stairs are so narrow you would have freaked out!)

Inside St. Paul's

View of London

Tower Bridge!

Millennium Bridge & The Globe

The Old Bailey

St. Paul's from outside

Sun setting on the London Eye & Parliament

After class I went food shopping, made dinner, wrote a paper for my internship credit about what I do and fell asleep. I know, wild night haha.

Tuesday: Today was a pretty uneventful day. I had work from 9-5. Came home, had dinner, did homework and now I'm blogging. However, due to my boring day at work I'm very up-to-date on the situation in Egypt and British news.


I had a lot of fun in Galway! It was so great to see so many good friends in one place! It was a cool little city and it felt real Irish! And like my mom always said, Ireland is realllllllly green and beautiful! I'm excited that I'll be in London next weekend, school work is picking up and traveling is real exhausting (although this trip went way smoother than our last!). But I realized how much we still have to do in London itself so I can't wait to keep exploring the city :)


Oh and we booked a trip for the end of the month to Florence and Venice! More to come soon!