Our last days in Galway :(

Hi everyone!
We´re in Granada, Spain right now but I wanted to fill you in on our last couple days in lovely little home away from home. Thursday Katie and I both went to work, I had to say goodbye to my amazing boss Donna, which was actually really hard! Katie had just started to realize that people at work actually liked her, so we were both getting pretty sad! After work we did a few errands and headed home to get ready for the big night out. All of our friends had planned on coming out with us for a last hoorah on Thursday so we were excited, but kind of dreading it because that really meant the end. Everyone started coming over and the wine drinking began. As usual it eventually led to David bringing out the guitar and everyone hanging out and singing for hours. Of all the things about Galway I will miss, I´ll miss these nights the most. We finally got out to the bar and everyone had a great time dancing and not thinking about the fact that we´re leaving! Later at home we stayed up until 5 am with David on the guitar, Mick on the drum, and me on the tambourine! It was so much fun again that no one wanted to go to bed, but our last day of work was tomorrow so Kate turned in and then everyone else followed.

The next morning everyone was hurting from the night before so we all went our for lunch. Well, everyone except Katie. You may be wondering how I was able to go to lunch in the middle of the day. Turns out I skipped my last day of work! I didn´t mean to, I meant to go in late, but I just didn´t want to leave the party and it´s not like they could fire me! I felt really bad so I rang later and explained everything and it was fine. You´ll find that Ireland is a fabulous country which accepts "severely hungover" as a reason not to come to work! After lunch Katie and I went home to help David clean for some people who were coming to look at renting our rooms :( Lenny and Mick promised to come later that night to see us off to the bus station.

Friday was a gorgeous day. We cleaned and hung out with Dave all day, and he suggested we all have dinner together, which sounded great to Katie and I because we were getting really sad about leaving, me especially. It hadn´t really hit Kate yet at this point. Turns out David and his friend Christian, who is from Italy, made us this big, Italian, DELICIOUS dinner! After dinner we all got ready to go out again and headed to Monroe´s for the last time :( The band that David used to be in was playing so we hung out there for a while and Sheila, Dermot, his friend Eddie, and Mick came to meet us there. After that we headed to Bar 903 again for some dancing and had a great time. Katie and I had to take the 3:30 am bus to Shannon airport so around 2:30 we all went home to grab our stuff and everyone came to see us off at the airport! Lenny didn´t leave work in time but Mick, Eddie, Dermot, and Sheila walked with us in the rain to the bus station. I was alllll tears, as was Sheila. We are leaving behind some really amazing people here and I just hope that not much time passes before we can see them again.

Since then we have spent 5 hours in the Shannon airport, short flight to Edinburgh (pronounced Edinborough), Scotland where we spent 3 days, a handful more buses, another flight, and now we´re in Granada!!! I´ll let Kate catch you up on those adventures, but we miss you all and are so excited to see you!! Although, if you could all move to Europe we would really appreciate it, because we seriously LOVE it over here.

Ha Luego!!
-Erin