brief update

this is me being silly and posting when I should be doing other things, but what else is new? we won our match, meaning that we are all-ireland champions for our level! the best part was that I didn't have to play - tricia stayed healthy and on-the-ball (literally as well as figuratively) and then we went to the very nice hotel that they put us up in. we had a nice dinner, then the celebrating really began. we went to this bar where there was supposed to be karaokee, but it didn't start for a long time, and in the meantime the team was doing a very good job of getting very drunk. because the karaokee was taking too long to get going, they started singing, much to the bemusement of the rest of the bar patrons. at some point I went downstairs (the karaokee/dance floor were upstairs) to try to get to a bar, and while I was there I started talking to with a couple older women who are locals, and I ended up staying there for anywhere between 45 minutes and an hour. at some point courtney and matt had wandered downstairs are were very confused as to whether or not I actually knew these people. I always enjoy making friends wherever I happen to be, and maura and frances were very nice. later, after pulling vanessa out of the way of traffic, we returned to the hotel. some of the girls went into the hotel bar, but I ended up going to the kfc, which was so good that I had it again for lunch today. even courtney agreed it was good, and she's very picky about her fried chicken, being from the south and all.
we woke up today (myself a bit more slowly than the others) and walked into city centre, where we went to one of the nicest malls that I've seen yet on the island and I had my second helping of kfc. the kids also got bus tickets for dublin, then we walked back to the hotel along the river, which was very nice. then I had to bid matt may, courtney and allison good-bye. sniff. but I'll be seeing them again before the end of the week, so it wasn't as hard as it could have been.
we watched the first team play for the o'connor cup (the highest level) around 4, then set off back to galway. I got home around....11.45, to find that I was incredibly hungry, hadn't started to pack for wales (which I was to be leaving for in a bit over 6 hours), and had no ticket to get back to ireland from scotland (where I'll be going after wales). so I cooked up a pizza, cracked open a can of coke, and set off on the madness that is my life. if there really is no rest for the wicked, I must be lucifer.
time to wrap this up and finish packing.