Anyways, today,my housemate Megan and I went down to Phoenix Park, which is a large piece of very green real estate in Dublin 8. The Dublin Zoo is there along with many other things such as cricket fields, rugby pitches, a little tea kiosk, etc. We got there around 2 after talking the shiny, clean LUAS to Heuston station. Megan and I wandered a little ways (without the huge obelisk in it, we would have no idea where it was). Phoenix Park is a really neat place to wander around in. Even though it is in the middle of Dublin, you get that feeling that you could be anywhere. It's like a completely insulated green bubble in the midst of the city, and I don't think I have ever seen that before. Merrion Square Park comes pretty damn close, but it's just too small. St. Stephen's Green doesn't even compare. So that was pretty neat. It also happens to be home to the Wellington Monument, which is the huge aforementioned obelisk. You can climb up it a little ways, but the stairs are similar to walking on rooftop, so I cautiously walked up and down it, given my track record with stairs and everything. Afterwards, we walked over to the cricket fields and watched a match. I was so confused. I felt like a normal girl watching football, but I didn't have any knowledgeable guy to ask questions to so I just kind of cocked my head to the side and continued to look confused. 
We left the park around 3:30 to grab some food before we caught the 5:25 showing of Snow White and the Huntsman. We found a pub just off of O'Connell Street called the Oval, which informed us that it was established in 1820 but rebuilt after the Easter Uprising in 1916. It's a cool little multi-story thing with a few places to sit outside. We ate some sausages and chips and watched Gaelic football on TV, which is such a cool sport. Here's my understand of how it goes. So they play on a pitch roughly the size of a football field. There are football uprights with soccer goals under them. Each player has a stick which is roughly half the size of a field hockey stick with a flat face. You can carry the ball, but you can only go four steps (I think it's four...) before you hurl it or pass it or whatever. If you score between the uprights it's one point and if you get it in the goal it's three points. That's all I got. But it seemed pretty brutal since they don't have pads or anything. We watched that for a while and walked around to kill time before we met up with Kari to see Snow White. It was alright. There was dialogue with Kristen Stewart for probably 7-10% of the time, and that percentage is too damn high. But other than that, it wasn't bad. Chris Hemsworth made up for many of Kristen Stewart's shortcomings. :)
Afterwards, we wandered around Dublin for a little bit, going by the Georgian District where I work and eventually ending up eating dinner at a burger place in Temple Bar. Sadly, they didn't have cosmos, but we sat outside and a street band started playing a show right in front of us. They were two guys from Portland, Oregon (and they looked like it, dirty hipsters) and one played the guitar and sang while the other played the drums on empty plastic buckets. They were actually surprisingly good. I think they are called Now is All We Have, but I don't really remember.
Other than that, I have been doing to much. I just watched the season finale of The Legend of Korra, which all you people should watch because it's the best thing ever. But yeah, work tomorrow, blehhhh. I think I might be going to Belfast this weekend, though. Get to see some Republican murals and shit. Be ready for the history lesson that will ensue. Because if you know me, I will recount the entire Troubles in great detail. Isn't that something to look forward to?
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