In between classes we had a great lunch at Roscoe’s. It is a precious little café that gives you a mimosa when you ask for orange juice! I had a scrumptious Mexican wrap that hit the spot. We had some extra time before our last class and decided to go to the Galway Museum. It had interesting exhibits that featured Galway’s history, literature, film, and war paraphernalia. We completed our tourist day with visiting the Galway Cathedral. It had stained glass windows, Stations of the Cross, Holy water, pews, …basically a Catholic church… beautiful, but Catholic. We had more class and got home just in time for Tunes in the Church with our awesome CEA director, Brian Slatterly. Brian’s friend from school, Cormick Bagley, started this night for traditional Irish music every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. There were four musicians for the two-hour concert. The first act was Cormick Bagley and his sister; he played an original pitch concertina while she Celtic danced and played the viola. They were so interesting to watch play together; Cormick said that they had a fight before the concert and the entire time they were making fun of each other. The second musician played the accordion, and the third musician sang Gaelic music a cappella. It was held in the Saint Nicholas Collegiate Church, which was an old Catholic church; during intermission we got a tour of the church and found all of the free masonry. The night as a whole was very informational. After the concert we went to The Front Door for some mojitos!
