Day 31: Already obsessed with Dublin

This morning I woke up in Dublin... Casual. We all woke up pretty early and grabbed breakfast at the hostel. Basic cereal, toast, yogurt, etc, but it was free so nobody minded. After breakfast Amy and I went to H&M so she could find the shoes she had been on a long hunt for and for me to look for a new satchel because my other one was starting to rip :( Amy unfortunately didn't find her shoes, but I found an awesome purse for really cheap, so it was still halfway a success. After H&M, we met the rest of the group at the City Hall for our walking tour. Our tour guide's name was Eion (pronounced Owen) and he was hilarious. Probably a few years older than us, and had the true Irish witty humor. On the tour we saw the Dublin Castle, Trinity College, Dublin Gardens, and several other historical spots in Dublin. On the tour, they announced a pub crawl they have, and we all decided to get tickets and try it out. 

The tour lasted until about middle of the afternoon, and then we grabbed lunch at Foley's Irish Pub. There I got a beer and Guinness beef pie, which was beyond delicious and set the bar real high for Irish food. After our late lunch we headed back to the hostel to get ready for the pub crawl. On the way back, Amy found her shoes which felt like a victory for us all. We got ready and headed out for the pub crawl around 7. Our starting point for the crawl was The Workmans, which was a smaller, chill bar that had bogo pints of beer for 4 euro. We each had our two pints, met up with some guys we met at the walking tour earlier in the day, and then headed to Mercantile. When we were leaving, we saw one of the people in charge of the crawl, who informed us there was a total of 110 people joining us for the crawl, and we all knew we were in for an interesting evening.  Mercantile was more of a club feel, where we got a free shot, but I didn't get any of the other drink deals. At Mercantile we played heads up with some other people from our hostel and then headed to Mezz. Mezz was a bar that had live music, which was much more my type of place. There we each got a shot of tequila and beer for 5 euro. After spending about an hour there, we then headed to an authentic Irish pub called O'Neills. They had a live band and drink specials, but I decided to just hang out because we have to get up early tomorrow for a tour. 

After a while and everyone was ready to go, we headed home before going to the final club of the crawl. On the way back to the hostel, we grabbed really cheap random food from a little shop not far from our hostel. I had Hawaiian pizza and french fries, which I thought tasted way better than it actually did because of how hungry I was from not eating dinner. Finally after we all ate our food, and laughed at events that occurred throughout the evening, we headed to bed.