No more wastin' time (May 21st)

Today started off very similarly from the two previous days:

Woke up.

Watched some Arrested Development.

Chatted with some people online.

But today would not end up like the others.  I got my "lounging around and wasting my day" thing out of the way, so I set off to explore Dublin.

Well, it turns out I was just re-exploring a lot of the territory that Scott and I covered in the few days we were in Dublin.

After a good 3 or 4 hours of walking around, I met up with Nath, Aidan, Jason and Peter at a pub to watch the championship game of the Champions League:  Man U vs. Chelsea.

I really couldn't have cared less who won, but I was going for Man U simply because I knew TWO of their players...two more then I knew on Chelsea's team.

From what I hear, this was one of the best matches in recent history.  Man U and Chelsea were tied, 1-1, after the first 90 minutes of regulation and 30 minutes of extra time.

This meant their would be a shootout, where each team selects 5 players to take penalty kicks and whoever has the most wins.  Well, the best player for Man U, Ronaldo, missed his penalty kick, which set it up for Chelsea's best player, Terry, to win it.  But he slipped on the wet grass, causing his shot to go wide left.

Everyone in the pub exploded with cheers, as they were mostly made up of Man U fans...or at least they shouted the loudest.

This meant that each team would get one more kicker each until someone eventually won.

Not too long after, the Man U goalkeeper made the game saving stop and then the pub erupted once again.  What had started off as a pretty good crowd before the match ended up as a mob with nowhere to move around in the pub.

Such a good game to watch...probably the best football game i'll ever see...until early August when ANY REAL football preseason game is on.

After the match, we headed out on the town.  After a few pints at a good pub, we ended up heading to a terrible pub, or actually a dance club, and had a few more pints.  It was not my type of atmosphere...terrible lighting and music that was way too loud.

Finally we left the club and "hired" a taxi back to their apartment, where I quickly passed out while watching Arrested Development.