The King's Head and Trad on the Prom

The King's Head

Sunday, September 18th: Today, the girls and I decided to go to The King's Head to watch a rugby match. However, when we got there we realized that they were actually showing football (soccer) not rugby. Since we we didn't have our hearts set on any specific game we decided to stay. I ordered the fish and chips again (the King's Head's fish and chips are the best I've had so far) and as we watched the game the pub got pretty rowdy. When Irish people have a game they are excited about they start drinking long before the game so by the time the game even starts most of them are blackout. Because of their drunken state whenever something happens in the game the pub erupted with "f*** you" "f*** that" "f***ing sh*t" and to my slight disbelief, "f***ing c*nts". It was both hilarious and sort of alarming but when in Ireland... As the game wrapped up and we finished our meals we were getting up to go when a table of all Irish people started talking to us. They realized we were from America and then things like Jay-Z and Beyonce, New York, Billie Jean, etc... started being thrown around. The best part I've found out is when they ask us where we are all from (Emily = New York...well Long Island but ya, and Elizabeth = Pittsburgh) and I go on to say Utah, most of the Irish just stare at me. Not sure if I made it up or if that is a real place. Then I usually follow with "Its where the 2002 Olympics were" and usually they just nod their heads and pretend to know what I'm talking about it. Over all it's pretty funny. So after we talked to the Irish for a little while we decided to go get coffee before Emily and I met the rest of our apartment for a performance.

You know you're a DeeGee when...

On the beach at night

We got to the performance a little early so we ended up walking along the beach which was beautiful at night!The performance we decided to go to was a traditional Irish music and dance performance. It was actually really, really cool. They have 5 people playing everything from Celtic drums to guitar and bass to keyboards to fiddle to the Irish version of the bagpipes called the elbow something. Anyway, the music was awesome and all of the people had tour internationally and were extremely talented. They also had an extremely good female singer and dancers. There were 6 dancers. 3 girls that did soft and hard clogging that was amazing! One girl who was a national champion or something who did some serious tap; and two boys. One boy (well man) was the guy who took over for the original Lord of the Dance when that guy retired, he was so so so good! And the other guy was probably in his 20s and was the current 5 time national clogging champion (or something like that), he had the highest high kick I had ever seen! It was amazing!! And then best part about the whole thing was that the place where the performance took place only held about a hundred people so we were in the 2nd or 3rd row and could see everything! It was great!!