Sunday night was the Galway Arts Festival kick-off parade so the streets were insane! We got to the bridge we were watching it from 2 hours early and it was already packed with people. Thankfully we got a spot right in the front because a bunch of people from our group didn't go out till like 30 minutes before the parade started and didn't get to see anything since there was no way to move passed all the people. Its legal for you to walk around with beer cans and bottles too and all the locals were super drunk just walking by with all their booze in their hands which was pretty entertaining since they were falling in the streets right in front of the police (Garda here) who didn't do anything just laughed. Very different from America, half the crowd would have been taken away for being drunk in public. The parade finally started at 10:30 pm (we got there at 8:30) and lasted about an hour. At the end of the parade it was so cooled that I couldn't even feel my hands. It was pretty tight though, I mean...no Disney parade of course hahaha but still it was really cool. Kinda of creepy, very interactive. Well after the parade we had to walk for an hour to get back because at 11pm they shut the back gates to Corrib Village so we have to go all the way around to get in...there was this random dog walking with us the whole way that kept running back and forth through the cars almost getting hit like 10 times. My friend Jessie was tripping balls...I was too cold and thinking of the delicious kebab I had with me to really care. It was a donner kebab and it was fantastic even after having carried it in the cold for an hour.
PICTURES!!
1. A clown...there were lots of clowns which creeped me out.
2. Some crazy flying monster that kept attacking the crowd
3. Monster again..
4. Crazy Clown tank!
5. Inside of the crazy clown tank!
6. Clown with a knife that came up too me...soooo many clowns!
7. Another clown car!
8. If you click to enlarge the picture you'll see a girl pushing the cage...that's my friend Sarah who got grabbed out of the crowd and was forced into the cage at first and then had to keep the monster in its cage for about 20 ft down from us. It was pretty funny!
9. The caged Monster right before it grabbed Sarah
10. Another clown car
11. Me and Sarah...a different Sarah...there are 6 on this trip haha
12. More of the parade
13. Parade
14. The crowd on the left of me an hour before the parade started...already packed!
15. This big tall crazy thing that I couldn't get very good pictures of but it was really cool in person!
16. Crowd to the right of me and hour before the parade.
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