Late Start and a Rainy Day

Saturday, October 1st: We got a bit of a late start today and it was pouring rain. We had wonderful weather in Galway but apparently Dublin was not going to be as nice. So we decided to hop on the double decker bus tour (they take you to all the major stops around the city while giving you awesome information at the same time). The tour non stop was about an hour and a half long so because it was so rainy we decided to stay on it all the way around before getting off. Once we got off we went to lunch at a really, really old pub. When we got there mom and I found a booth right by the front door and sat down while we waited for Scotty. Once Scotty got there he made some friends with the other men watch football (soccer) in the pub and mom and I had lunch. While we were eating the bartender came over to tell us a little history about the pub. Turns out the "booth" my mom and I were sitting was really the booth that way back in the day (aka up until the 60s or 70s) the women sat there because they weren't allowed in the pub. It even had its own private door and doorbell for the women so they could get there drunken husbands attention. So funny!

After lunch we went to the natural history museum (aka the dead zoo) with all the taxidermy animals. There were 100s! It was really cool. Then mom confessed she once wanted to be a taxidermist when she was little...haha she is an odd duck! Next we went to the Medieval history museum which was really neat because a lot of things there I had learned about in my history class in Ireland. Very cool!

Finally, we headed back to the hotel and had dinner at the restaurant bar again before getting a good nights sleep for mom and Scotty's last full day in Ireland!