May 21st Part 2

After booking all of our stay I chilled out a little bit and stopped being a stress ball and we decided to try and do Steve's U2 sites of interest. A ton of walking to a bunch of places that didn't mean anything to me and weren't all that exciting but I'm sure Steve will tell you all about them and what they mean. We walked all the way to the end of the quay in Dublin and took pics of what we thought was going to be the U2 Tower once construction was done but that area was blocked off and turns out we took pictures of some kind of mall or entertainment venue. Couldn't wait to get off my feet for a bit. Earlier in the day we stopped at "Nude," a little wrap/smoothie joint that Bono's brother apparently owns. Food was more reasonably priced by a bit and it was really good. We stopped at a grocery store and picked up some food to make breakfast and lunch for the next day and ended up reheating our dinner from the night before and eating that for dinner again. I had more of my couscous and still couldn't finish the portion! After a tiny nap we headed off for the Literary Pub Crawl which Steve's aunt and uncle suggested we would enjoy. The actor's were very amusing despite the fact that I know nothing of Irish writers. How did I miss them all after so many years of school and university? Guess if I ever go on Jeopardy I will have to add Irish Writers to my list of things to brush up on (along with American History, President's, oh hell anything "American," and Religion.) The best part of the Pub Crawl was that along the way in between excepts of famous literature we got to watch the Champions League final between Man United and Chelsea. This felt close to what it might be like watching the World Cup finals in England with England having made it to the final. OK maybe not quite that intense but it was very cool. I was cheering for Man U and was still able to point out players to Steve despite not following soccer anymore for many many years now (who wants to get up at 6am on Saturday morning to watch highlights on Soccer Saturday? You know it isn't me...!). The game went in to penalty kicks after overtime play and it looked like Chelsea was going to win it but their captain slipped as he went to take his place kick and that left the door open for Man U to steal the win. After the game we went back to the Temple Bar area in which our hotel is and went to one of the pubs along the way and had another pint before heading home for the night. I was drinking Carlsberg and Steve was sticking with Guinness (ew).