May 21st-Day of the Rapture

So obviously, knowing that today is the day of the Rapture, I started the morning by shopping for groceries to stock up for the coming week. Last week I decided to wait until Sunday evening...which was an awful mistake. Shelves were empty, the store was packed, and the lines were even longer...Thus, this morning was a much more relaxing shop.

After lunch I decided to explore more of the centre...which I keep discovering new streets and areas, so I will have more to explore in the coming weeks. There are so many stores and so many shoppers...the thing that kind of annoys me though is how similar things are to the USA--large shopping centers, full of many of the same stores. They even have a Forever 21. And when I went to H&M, they had many of the same displays as I saw in Pittsburgh. So that kind of disappoints me a bit. But oh well.

I also went to the National Leprechaun Museum! During the tour they talk about some of the Irish folklore--leprechauns, giants, and fairies. It was an interesting little tour. My favorite was the "Giants room" where there was extremely oversized furniture that you could climb up on. And it was interesting to hear about superstitions about fairies. Like there was a superstition that fairies would come to take baby boys and replace them with "changlings." If you suspected that your child was switched, you were supposed to throw the "changling" down a well and your baby was supposed to be returned back from where he was taken. Apparently they've found quite a few skeletal remains of babies from the past...

As I mentioned yesterday, my foot has been hurting more...which kind of sucks because I'm accustomed to my fast walking pace. Now walking with a slight limp is adding to my travel time...haha. I decided to buy an Ace bandage to see if wrapping it up will help give it support, so we'll see if that helps any.