Early Bird Special

To celebrate after our first day of classes, the roommates and our friend Bryn decided to sample the Irish pub dinner cuisine. Problem was, we didn't leave our apartment until 7:30. As we quickly found out, just about every pub stops serving food at 5pm, or even earlier for some. The only places we could find were either really fancy Chinese or Italian restaurants or fast food. Determined to have some real Irish food, and after walking around for a good 45 minutes, we finally ended up finding a pub that served food at that hour, back at Dolan's, the place we went to on Friday night with the international group. I tried honey baked Limerick ham on a baguette and vegetable soup, and I must say that I was pleasantly surprised with the taste. I was so tired by the time we finally got home that I was asleep by 10:45 -- quite a rarity, for anyone who knows me. The lesson learned: they definitely don't eat dinner as late around here than is available in the States, and considering the steep price that we had to pay, even for the pub food, eating out will most likely be a much rarer thing than we are used to.