Long but exciting day

So apparently in all the confusion of my roommate's phone adapter blowing up I just saved this blog instead of posting it...

Today was pretty interesting, and I'm begininning to get the notion from my classmates that the real way to experience Dublin actually is to get drunk and talk to a Dubliner, haha. So, I started the day by going off with a couple classmates and getting some money. Then we walked to the Kilmainham Gaol (the jail). While I couldn't hear everything because I was often pushed back into a corner away from the tour guide, what I did hear was interesting. He pointed out the actual spot where Connolly was executed. After the jail, we ate and then there was the pub crawl. We started at The Duke and went to three other pubs. The guides were very entertaining. We ended up at Davy Byrnes, where I had Bailey's and milk. Chapter 8 of Ulysses is set there. Most everybody was drinking Guiness at the first couple pubs. I didn't decide to drink until the last one. I stayed with the last four people and we walked back to the hotel. When the majority of the group left people kept asking me if I'd be ok staying and walking home. I wanted to have my drink at leisure and I hadn't stayed out late any night so far, so I thought I'd be adventurous and stay out. We got back at about midnight. The way back was interesting. There was a girl in front of a store going on about Michael Jackson and when we heard about it we were like "omg" and the girl was like "Finally, somebody cares! You're American, yeah?" It's really weird having something that "big" happen in our own country while we're so far away. Well, I guess celebrities die every day, but you know. Come to think of it, MJ was a nutter, and he was probably already half dead from all the plastic surgery. Then there was a Dubliner guy that Vanessa was asking about the Michael Jackson issue and they got into a big long conversation about the hot spots and night life. We had a feeling he would have liked her to join him, wherever he was going off to party. It was kind of funny. He walked along with us for what I thought was a really long distance, but maybe I had no concept. When we had gone to the gaol it was pretty much the opposite end of the city from our hotel That felt like way too much walking. I thought maybe the liqeur made the walk home seem less bad. Then I realized that we had taken the bus from the jail area to the Duke for the pub crawl. Anyway, I'm exhausted... To sleep!