i shall call him Squishy and he shall be mine - he shall be my Squishy

Day 24 - Sunday was a beautiful, sunny day. unfortunately, this was the day that my camera decided that it didn't want to turn on anymore.

luckily, there are 14 other people here with digital cameras :)

UCD hooked us up with tickets to a HURLING GAME so on Sunday morning, we bused it to Croke Park.

the stadium is gorgeous. it's in the middle of a little town. the Irish have a lot of pride in the sport and the stadium.

again, there is a lot of history there - the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) is historically one of the strongest Irish symbols of Nationalism.

we sat in the 3rd row. they say Hurling is almost a mix between hockey and lacrosse. the field is sort of set up like foosball table players.

it's the fastest field sport in the world. to me, it just looks like guys beating the crap out of each other with sticks.

the players are extremely athletic and the game was

really impressive.

a few older Irish men sitting behind me kept filling me in on what was going on and about halfway through, i started to catch on (though i think about 30% of the things they were saying was just to mess with me)

we came to support our "Boys in Blue," but Dublin lost - sort of miserably - to Kilkenny (the best team in the league)

<--- but MUTEFISH was there! haha

after the game, i came back to the campus and laid in one of the many fields listening to music. it was extremely relaxing and just what i needed.

we stayed in that night and had more YouTube watching party time in the kitchen. the last of the law school boys left early the next morning, so we hung out with them for a bit AND i had some excellent skype time with the family & Meredith Joe :)

it was the calm before the storm....