ireland day 2

so i woke up at 10:30 and thought to myself "oh shit". aaron's flight got in at 7:40 and i was supposed to meet him. i told my aunt and uncle. why didn't they wake me up? i looked around and nobody was home. i had visions of katz sitting helplessly in the airport by himself not knowing what to do. i called my uncle and he said that my friend hadn't come in yet. the flight was delayed and he was on his way back to the airport to get him. i said okay and told my uncle that he would be the short, scraggly looking fella. an hour passed and my uncle called back asking for his name to write on a sign. i told him "aaron katz" and spelled it out for him. half hour later he calls again and says my friend isn't there. must not have made the flight. not much i could say so i said "okay" and hung up. i imagined katz had wandered out of the airport and was lost in farm country by now. a few minutes later my uncle called and said he got him.

apparently katz had been there for 45 minutes looking for me since i had told him before he left that the only reason i wouldn't be at the airport would be if i was dead. he saw my uncle and thought to himself "that guy looks a lot like chad's dad", but the guy was holding a sign that apparently read "A. Eetz". finally aaron got the nerve to go up to him and ask if he was looking for aaron katz and they were off. what followed was an awkward 25 minute car ride that i would kill to be a fly on the wall for. katz was apparently forced to talk about golf, the weather and historical architecture to pass the time.

they got back to the house and we got him settled in. we headed out immediately to walk into town. basically do the same exact thing i did the day before. by the way, this is what an aaron katz looks like in ireland.

so we walked around limerick all day and used the time more to catch up on what each other was up to than to check out the city. there's not much to it anyway. so we walked across the bridge into a side of town that seemed like there could be nothing or could be something in. turned out to be nothing. we walked through a little passageway in the trees to find a gravel road that ran parallel to the river and we followed it for a while discussing the brilliance of the neptunes and "drop it like it's hot".

eventually we headed back to the house and decided to take a nap. jet lag is a bitch man. of course the nap went longer than we anticipated and we didn't get up till 11. my cousin ryan had a chest infection and had already taken his antibiotics so he couldn't drink and it was too late for us to walk to shane's bar. so we tried walking to a closer pub but it had a neon sign flashing that said "off license". we assumed that to mean the were done serving and just went back home. turns out it means they are also a liquor store. so we stayed up till 3 playing darts and hanging out. turned out aaron's first night there wasn't nearly as eventful as mine.