The Weekend

Well after Blarney it was the weekend so Reline and I decided to go try and make some Irish friends. We started out at Cissie Young's which was full of adults watching Gaelic football...not our scene...next we figured we would just walk down our street checking out each pub until we found one with some kids in it...worst case scenario would be that we walked all the way downtown where we knew kids would be...

After we checked out about 4 pubs and found only adults in all of them we heard some music coming from The Gateway which is about a 5 min walk from our flat. We headed into the Gateway and decided to have a beer. Immediately about 5 kids came up and started talking to us...long story short the Gateway has the cheapest pints in town and is the oldest pub in Cork...

Our friends we met turned out to be extremely helpful and showed us around Friday and Saturday night. Also, we found out that the big party nights for college students are Wednesday and Thursday, NOT the weekend...so we exchanged numbers Friday and met up again on Saturday at the Gateway...i'll try to get some pics next time I am there

We also explored the gym...which has crazy security...we had to register our fingerprints with our UCC ID's...to enter you have to scan your ID card and place your finger on a scanner and if they match up the gate opens...the gym is pretty nice and have a lot of treadmills and bikes, but was pretty crowded when I was there. I also met a kid who plays hockey for UCC and he invited me to come play for them this semester. I will be checking out a few practices in the next few days and hopefully get my equipment shipped over soon so I can add come USA flare to their team.

Not too much is going on this week...my class got canceled Friday, so on Wednesday is my last day of class...we hope to visit Kinsale on Friday...Tomorrow I will be heading by The Lough - the really pretty lake on the way to the grocery store - so I will add pictures from the Lough and Kinsale as soon as I take them.


Cheers,

Travis