Thursday, March 31, 2011
Italy Pictures
Italy-Venice, Florence, and Rome
Over our "study break" or what we like to call a two week spring break, Nicole, Natalie, Becky, and I went to Italy and Greece. We started off in Venice during Carnivale and it was definitely interesting. People wore costumes of all sorts from disney characters to renaissance people. It was weird to say the least, and it seemed as if nobody went to school or work. San Marco Square was literally filled with thousands of people and everyone was just taking pictures of the people dressed up. It was pretty much halloween, so we joined in the festivities and bought masks. (The pretty kind, not scary.) We went on a gondole (as they spell it) ride and it was gorgeous. Of course our guide person just spoke Italian the entire time so we had no clue what he was point out. Florence was our next stop and it was great. It was a little bit like deja vu since I remembered going to a lot of the same places with my family two years ago. We saw Michelangelo's David and it was amazing. It was HUGE, none of us expected it to be so big, it really was incredible and we just do not understand how he sculpted it. Florence was our shortest stop so we didn't really get to do all that much but we still had fun. Rome was fun for the first couple days, we did basically everything that I had done with my family two years ago so it was a bit repetitive but still great because it is Rome! Becky and I were there for five days and knew the city like the back of our hands. We definitely became experts navigating the city. We made sure we had gelato every single day which was fantastic, but I am pretty sure none of us will be eating pizza or pasta for a good month at least. On our last day in Rome Becky and I went and saw La Bella e La Bestia aka The Beauty and The Beast. We consider ourselves cultured because we saw a play/musical in another language, but really now we just want to watch it in english! The entire trip was amazing and we had a lot of fun!
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Belgium Pictures
He was all dressed up!
Belgium
One of the last weekends in February I went with Nicole, Natalie, and Becky to Brussels, Belgium. I will never go back it was so BORING! The waffles and chocolate saved our trip! We probably ate way too much of both, but we couldn't help ourselves, we had no self control. The Grand Place and Mannekin Pis are pretty much all Brussels has to offer. Nicole and I went on a day tour to Bruge and Ghent. Ghent was a waste of time, our tour guy had 5 cigarettes in one hour. I think for the day we counted about 13, and those were only the ones we saw...we weren't with him for half the time. Anyways, I am pretty sure we all got lung cancer from that weekend, EVERYBODY smokes it is absolutely disgusting, they were worse than Ireland which is saying something. We went to Delirium cafe/pub, which is the pub with the most amounts of beer in the world. They had over 2000 varieties, 28 on tap. I think we tried two. Other than that our time in belgium was uneventful and boring, I don't recommend visiting.
Friday, February 18, 2011
Galway Pictures!
Our first rugby game! Leinster won!
Galway Girl
Last weekend we went to Galway and it was amazing. I cannot wait to go back with my parents. We got in late Friday night so naturally went for food right away. We got pizza for the first time since being in Ireland and it was much needed and fantastic! Afterwards we met up with our Georgetown friends at Kingshead pub then we went to a grand opening of a club which our hostel gave us free entrance too. The night was great until some irish girl head-butted our friend breaking her nose. Apparently there was an issuse of dance space. The girl is doing fine now, shes a rugby played so she's tough. The next day we went on an all-day tour. We saw Dunguaire Castle (not so impressive) in Kinevara, then some tomb in Burren, and finally the Cliffs of Mohr. The cliffs are absolutely amazing! Luckily it was not raining on us, but it was incredibly windy, that is why my hood is up in most pictures. That night we went to a different club (no worries, there were no altercations there) and afterwards we went to a casino. I am not sure if you can really call it a casino, more like a room with a bunch of tables, but here I watched the five people who were better all lose all their money. Well four of them did, one actually won 10 euro. The next day we went to the original creators of the calladgh and got ourselves one! After that we just walked around the city before going home to watch Marquette lose to Georgetown. Nicole and I stupidly bet some of the Georgetown guys that Marquette would win, therefore tomorrow night she and I will be wearing Georgetown apparel out to a club. I will be burning all pictures! Next weekend we are going to Belgium!
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Pictures from Cork
Irish Band
Blarney Castle, I don't know why it is sideways
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