Thursday, November 20, 2008

An EVENT in Galway City

Today I was wondering around Galway after class. I was half Christmas shopping and half avoiding my work. I was about to go into a bookstore, Easons, when I noticed a very large crowd of middle school students clustered around the Tommy Hilfiger store. Other people were stopping in their tracks and craning their necks to get a look into the store. I had no idea what was going on, but I eavesdropped on people's conversations while I too stopped what I was doing to look for the source of the commotion.

I heard a few theories, but the consensus seemed to be that Mr. Hilfiger himself was there at that very moment. If that is true, that's pretty exciting I guess. I couldn't see anything, so I gave up trying and went back to my shopping. When I came out of Easons ten minutes later, the crowd had grown in size and there was a Garda car and a black car that could possibly have transported the celebrity. It seemed that no one could say for sure what had happened or was happening, but I think people still agreed that Tommy was in the general vicinity. I continued on my merry way and finished my shopping and when I came out of the Euro 2 store ten minutes later, the crowds and cars were gone but the Tommy Hilfiger store was blocked off and inside I could see people with major video cameras. Maybe they were filming a commercial? But not on a sound stage? Hmmmm, interesting... But if something big did go down today, I WAS THERE!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi Kristin,
Sounds like a lot of excitement in Galway today. I wouldn't put it on a tee shirt though---"Tommy Hilfiger may or may not have been in Galway on 11/20/08 and I was there!" I'm tickled, though, because I can picture exactly where it all happened. Love, Mom