The last

This is it. I'm almost packed. Almost.

Yesterday was good. I went to the leprechaun museum at last. It was actually really cool. I thought it was going to be really goofy, but it's not. It's all about story telling, so it's all guided. The guide goes through the first instances of leprechauns in stories and then misconceptions and then it moves onto the other mythical creatures of Ireland--Faeries particularly. They're not nice little winged things like ours. They're actually pretty frightening--vengeful, child stealing, and they look like normal people. Changelings are very creepy--if a faery steals your kid they'll put a changeling in its place. One will look like your baby except they always have dark eyes. And they have old man voices.

I got to the hostel later than I anticipated, but it was alright. Maddie found me and we went back to the Queen of Tarts for somethings delicious. Then we had time to kill before music started anywhere. I really wanted to go to O'Donahue's because it's famous and I hadn't. So we ate dinner there and I got in my first two pints of the night.

The Old Storehouse is awesome. It's pretty touristy, but I don't care. They have Trad every night and the drinks aren't too terribly expensive--for Temple Bar anyway. There were a bunch of Americans in there, mostly from Texas. One of them started talking about Australians and how he met one one time in a bar and he called the girl behind the bar over by saying "Hey bar wench!" And then this Texan went on to talk about how that's just how Australians are and things don't mean the same things in other countries blah blah blah. Well, Maddie wanted to kill him because apparently that guy was just an ass and not all Australians are fuck heads.

I'm a big fan of whiskey and coke now. They're a bit expensive though if you don't know what you're doing. If you just ask for a whiskey coke they'll sell you a shot of whiskey on ice and a separate can of coke. It ends up being 9 quid. If you're savvy to this you ask for draft coke. Then it's 5.90euro. Awesome. We each had 5 I reckon.

The music ended kind of early so we went down the street to another packed bar with somebody still playing. Had a Smithwicks. Made plans to go back to Derry within 5 years. Or Australia. A pinky swear happened. It's legit.

Fish and chips at 1am ish.

Everything was closing down by then so we just went back to the hostel to go to sleep and on the way I took some blurry drunk pictures on the Ha'penny bridge.

This morning was a little rough. Just a bit though. I drank some water and felt better. Did some souvenir shopping, said goodbye to the Liffey and the Temple Bar and the O'Connell street and the cross-walk signs that yell at you.

Okay this isn't really the last. I'm far too distracted for a legitimate farewell.