Day 2 of Galway fun

Yesterday was one LONG day of thursday just melding into Friday, we slept a bit on the plane but it was not quality even though we each had 3 seats to ourselves. We slept as well as we could. Our flight was a bit delayed, but thanks a million to Uncle Tommy who got us out MUCH faster than we would have otherwise. The pilot actually said at one point "somethings are going our way and we're 2nd in line to take off now" mike and i just looked at each other and smiled knowing that most likey was Uncle Tommy's air traffic controller connections!

Yesterday we kinda flew through customs and got on the first bus to Galway at 7:55, it left right on time. we got into galway at 9:45 and took a taxi to the University College Hospital (UCH) where i'm working. We meet up with Colette, the woman in HR there, and she got us squared away with our luggage and then we picked up a few groceries and then set up a bank account and then met with Pauline and this all was done walking and before 12:00... it was an absolute whirlwind and totally exhausting for 2 people that just flew from JFK! Well i met some of the OT's and the saw the department. Pauline is letting me borrow here bottle green uniform.. should be amusing as she is about 5' 10". we'll see on monday

Colette took us to our new place. We schlepped our luggage to her teeny little car and literally shoved our luggage into her trunk and back seat. Poor mike was stuck in the back with bags surrounding him, he couldn't move if he wanted to. Then i proceded to open the passenger door when Colette said "you're gonna be drivin' are ya?". ooooh yeah... the cars are opposite here. oops. We finally found our little 3 bedroom town house like place. The carpet is really loud and hideous, i'm way taller than the fridge and the bathroom shower has this little 1/2 wall screen to keep the water from spraying out. Our kitchen table is even decked out with a Guinness table cloth! Well the good thing is that its about a 10 min walk to work for me.

After crashing we walked through the city and found ourselves in a bar with traditional music playing. We felt really out of place everywhere and felt like we had no idea how to do anything, but it was still fun and we had some drinks and then found a restaraunt and mike had fish and chips and i had this great fishermans bake, it was like a glorified shephard's pie with fish and delish veggies topped with mash!

our legs were exhausted last night and we crashed! This morning we're doing it all over, we're looking for bikes and cell phones to call each other. Mike's mission on monday is to find a new place to live, a place to work and maybe go grocery shopping a bit more.

We're only able to use the internet cafe right now since we don't have WiFi at our place and don't know where to find a plce to use our laptop yet. So we don't know how often we'll be able to write for now.

We love you all!!