I will be in America in 5 short days.

It's so strange. Everyone is excited.

We had our first 'debriefing' last night. I had mentioned that it worried me how everyone would react, but it went much better than anticipated. They accepted everything we said and I think everyone said what they wanted. We are having another one on Friday to work on solutions.... it'll be good.

So, I went to London a few days ago. I love being in a city, which is certainly new. I got to figure out the 'tube' (subway) system and we were set free for the entire time. We sat in on a service at Westminster Abbey and saw Big Ben, the London Eye, Tower Bridge, Buckinham Palace, SoHo, British Museum, etc.

I definitely liked London, and it was much less sketch than I imagined it to be.
Oxford I can't say that I was too crazy about. I did get to see where part of H.P. was filmed, but the rest of the city was pretty boring.

I want to tell stories or share something intersting... but it's 1 a.m. here so you'll have to forgive me.

I'm nearly done packing (of course) and I am ready to be done. I don't regret my time here by any means... but i'm ready to go back to the States.


We have a famous poet coming to speak to our class tomorrow named Michael Longley. It's supposed to be a big deal... he looks like Santa so i'm excited. :)

Billy, the leader from JBU, is here. He grew up in Belfast and to make a long story short- his dad was a leader in the Protestant terrorism group in the most dangerous area of Belfast. So he has an interesting take on everything. He took us to Shankill and Falls Road (where nearly all of the fighting took place) and it was completely fascinating. It's maybe a mile from where we are every week and there are murals all over the place depicting Protestant and Catholic hatred. The visit definitely helped to bring everything together. We wouldn't have understood anything going prior to this semester.

I can't think of much else...
I'll try to post once more before we head out.

Today is incredibly beautiful.
The sky is clear and the mountains are nearly tangible.
The grass is bright green and the bay is full.

For all that I dislike about Northern Ireland ..... beauty is not one of them.

I will surely miss my backyard.


tomorrow we leave for London! bye!


and here is a special picture of me, emily, and imaginary Katie.


clearly I am spotting here while she is on Emily's back....
we miss her. a lot.

We are at Hadden and Betty's for our usual Sunday evening gathering...and as usual I am anti-social so I decided to write on my long forgotten blog.


Today was good. It was our "friendship family" day. We went to our dear friends Karen and Karu (really long Indian last name)'s. They have two beautiful little girls Megan 7 and Erin 5. They have perfect little british accents and incredible dark skin. It's ridiculous. They fed us traditional Indian curry, ya I tried it. Last time I tried brussel sprouts, so I figured this had to be better. Of course it was fantastic. Elma and Desi from our first family day came over as well and she brought those amazing desserts. I'm getting the recipe and I am going to frantically learn how to make them. Bonoffee pie is heavenly.
Here's an interesting dessert fact... The Irish do not eat many cookies (biscuits as they are called here). I told them we would make them chocolate chip, snickerdoodle, and peanut butter and they would see what they were missing.

We had great conversations and unfortunately the girls remembered all the clapping games that I showed them from the last visit. So we sang "miss mary mac,mac,mac" a lot.


This week is our last week of assignments and thursday we leave for LONDON!!! We are in a bit of a crunch to get things done, but it's almost refreshing to have to manage my time. i'm such a nerd.

We had a good time in Dublin when we went. We weren't aware that we would have 5 hours of free time so unfortunately I didn't have anything planned. We were able to go into the National Gallery which had the painting that I've been studying. It was really neat to see. Also we visited Trinity College for awhile.

Thanksgiving day Luke and I ate Foo-Kin noodle. It was delicious... but it was strange. On Friday we celebrated thanksgiving and thankfully had the works Mashed potatotes and all. We all got completely stuffed only to eat 3 pieces of pie afterwards. woopsy.

Billy, the leader of this trip, is coming on Wednesday and I'm a little apprehensive of how to act. I want to tell him everything that needs to be corrected about this trip and want to explain to him all the ways that we were misinformed. Many agree with me on this, but it is my fear that no one else will speak up. I do not want to overly complain, but as we all know, I have to speak my mind.

It's almost over and i'm ready... but i'm sure as soon as i'm home I will want to be back. The grass is always greener you know.

that's all for now. bye!

I haven't written in awhile..... I apologize.

I'll try to write a lot tomorrow.

All I have to say is that I can't believe I'm missing the most incredible NFL season.




The Packers better be in the superbowl. And for Luke's family I'll say that the cowboys are doing incredible too...... *I apologize to everyone in Wyoming for that*



Happy Thanksgiving everyone.. Christmas music starts tomorrow.

the update-

What seems like forever ago we went to the town of Bangor. We have been excited about this day for a long time.... for some reason we all have been making fun of the name Bangor (what they call sausages) for the whole trip. Turns out Bangor is beautiful. Take note...



ya, I know right?

Then sometime we made two random adventures to these places...
first a trip to Seamus Heaney's old home (or something). I know nothing about Seamus Heaney. Most of us don't. And we aren't studying him... but we did go to some random museum/exhibit of his. This is a picture of him with his jacket....
maybe you all know more of him than I do so i'm including it-


Heaney once wrote a poem about the Forge... the Forge is seen in this next picture. The man is Barney. He used to be a blacksmith in that little building. The boys enjoyed this experience much more than the girls. I was in my own world much of this excusion. But this is him and his little shop.


When we went to St. Mark's church where C.S. Lewis was baptized we also got to see these things....
This is a sculpture done by Ross Wilson (who we met at the beginning of our semester). It is of Diggory and the Wardrobe. It was neat.

This is the doorknob of Lewis' grandfather's door. This is supposedly the inspiration for Aslan......


Previously (I think) I mentioned Eamonn Malley. He is the journalist that came to speak to us about poetry. Well we got to go to his house and turns out he is an art connoisseur. He had over a million dollars worth of art in his home. He is one of the strangest men I've ever met... but it was one of our best nights. This is him with one of the art pieces.


Finally-
we went to Hillsborough Castle. This is the safest place in Ireland. This is where the nobility stay when they come to N. Ireland.
Guests have been the Royal Family, President Bush, Tony Blair, the Dalai Lama, etc.
This is also the place where for the first time ever The Queen met with the Irish President. Apparently it's a really big deal.

I've been to the White House and I must say...this place is cooler. Mainly because of this..

This is the room in which this happened.....

I'm not sure if you can tell what is happening... but this is the room in which Bush and Blair met and decided to go to war with Afghanistan. Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and Eamonn are present in this picture as well.

our next president? maybe..... but she's been to Hillsborough. She actually stayed there during the Monica scandal when Bill went somewhere else (oooOOOooOOOooooO)

The guy that led our tour basically said our presidential hopefuls suck :) He doesn't think any of them have a global understanding. He also very much dislikes Bush. He basically said that each time he's met him it's been a bad experience. I liked him, he did not hold anything back.

This is our group. Emily and I might be holding hands........ it happens. We are always in the front middle, so we have to make it exciting.


Well that's all for now.

Today was very eventful. We went to Carrickfergus Castle and out to the cinema. I saw Lions for Lambs. I recommend it... but be prepared to think.

3 more weeks.

Well, here are some pictures (finally) that I have stolen from other people...
This is in Dublin about to leave Ireland. We are obviously very upset about it.

This is at the Pisa Central Station.... I am 21!

here is the only picture we have of the tower. No one had their camera except Meg and her camera hated life.


These are from our amazing tour of Ancient Rome. (I'm sorry for those of you who want pictures of the actual sites....... those are on 'my' camera)We look really rough.. no sleep, a three hour train ride, and as you can see, rain.

We liked to say "when in Rome" and make the "muah" sound a lot
This is our tour guide Valentina. She is an archeologist and, as she repeatedly reminded us, truly Roman *(thanks Emily).

This is Emily throwing her coin into the Trevi fountain. (I did this as well)

This is Julius Caesar's grave. People still put flowers on it.

Luke and I somewhere on the tour


we got to St. Peter's early... who honestly gets to stand in the middle of the square by themselves?

This is at the top of the Basillica. The picture does the city no justice.

This church was the most incredible sight (besides the Pantheon). This is a list of the Pope's going back to Peter.

The train ride to Firenze (Florence)

I love Florence........ I just needed to put that out there.

This is the Duomo in the center of the city. It's the strangest looking church i've ever seen.

Florence is so beautiful.

There are statues everywhere. This is an exaggerated one (you can imagine where). There is a story behind it... but I don't want to write it.

We love Pizza in Italy and we are very depressed that we ate it all.

A very posed picture of Emily and I heading back to Ireland


back at home-

Luke mastered the 99p kite..... eventually


sunset in Dundrum



A lot of fun things have happened this week. I'll post those tomorrow.

sorry not much new....

I did get shoved by a 60 year old woman though


we were at St. Mark's church on Sunday and a woman came up to the group and was asking us questions. She asked where we had been in N. Ireland and I was telling her the cities we had visited. I said we had been to Derry stroke Londonderry (those that are for a united Ireland say Derry and those that want to stay with the U.K. say Londonderry). Well she said "no, no..... Londonderry is correct." I said ok and she went for a side hug and as she was retreating she literally shoved me. I fell back (luckily Luke was right behind me) and then she just laughed and said she was a rough sort of person.

no big deal.

There are no pictures because my camera has still not been found.
It's pretty depressing, but I haven't had much time to think about it. We've actually been quite busy.

On Sunday we went to our host families home. We went to a new family and I was upset at first, because I liked our old family... but I'm so thankful we went here. They were a YOUNG couple! Early thirties with two daughters(7&5). The father is from India and she is from Belfast. If you can imagine, their children were the most beautiful things i've ever seen. They asked if we wanted to rest and be alone and I told them that we would just really love their company. So they spent their whole day just sitting in the living room with us chatting about everything. He was interested in American politics and I've been watching the debates so was actually able to give real information. We had good discussions on healthcare... in the U.K. you pay ridiculous amounts of taxes but get free health care, education, etc. They couldn't believe how much we pay for surgeries and college. Neither can I :)
I helped the 7 year old put together a toy lion and a puzzle. Then we taught the girls a bunch of clapping games and other random things. Children with British accents immediately get what they want. It's easy... they say "please, will you play with us" in the most ridiculous perfect accent ever.
The fed us a complete american meal. meat, potatoes, and vegetables. It was wonderful. I did eat corn, brocolli, and [......] brussel sprouts... ya I went for it. They weren't nearly as bad as I thought.
She is studying theology and he works for Sealy. He had a very interesting view on life in Ireland. He grew up Hindu and coverted a year before coming to N.I. I won't write out the whole conversation.. but it was interesting.
We were talking about our view of India and I told him my view comes from the movie A Secret Princess (dad you will appreciate that). He laughed at me of course.. but that movie made it seem so beautiful. :)

So basically Sunday was great.. I told them to please invite us back.

We have lots of assignments this week which is good for me. Gives me something to do. We are out of bus passes so it now will cost us 20 dollars to go to Belfast.... which means it won't be happening often.

Well I have no clue how to write this….
But here goes
Italy was phenomenal. Seriously, anything that I wrote would not be adequate. We flew in to Pisa and about 15 minutes after landing it was my 21st birthday. We went to the leaning tower at about 1 in the morning and I was very surprised at how cool the building actually is. It really leans. I know everyone says that… but it’s surprising.
We had a horrible nights sleep and then had the most beautiful train ride along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. I must live in a Villa in Italy at one point in my life. Seriously.
Once we arrived in Rome we found our hostel and found out we had been switched to a different one. So (me being very time conscience) we had to rush to our actual hostel and rush to the Colloseum where we met our guide. Valentina led us around Ancient Rome. She has a Ph.D. in Archaeology and was completely brilliant. We went through the Roman Forum and she explained how we were standing on the original road work over 2,000 years ago. Just ridiculous stuff like that. We were able to go in the Pantheon which is the most incredible building I’ve ever seen. We saw Caesar’s grave and the Trevi fountain. There is no way to describe these things. It makes sense why so many people love Rome…. there are endless things to see.
After the tour we went out to eat with other JBUers and celebrated my 21st. It really doesn’t get much better than a birthday in Pisa and Rome.
The next morning we went to Vatican City and saw St. Peters. I had no idea how massive it is. I’ll get pictures up soon. Everything in the place was so intricate. There was no way to see or appreciate everything. It would’ve taken days. We climbed over 350 stairs to the top and were able to be in the dome and on the roof. What? Just incredible.
We had lunch at a pizzeria I had researched and I loved it. It’s similar to ours… but much much better of course. We then headed to the Spanish Steps and split up for the shopping district. Luke and I didn’t want to shop (of course) and so we headed back to Ancient Rome and just relaxed.
The next morning we desperately tried to see the Sistine Chapel (don’t talk to me about this… I’m still upset)… but we stood in the wrong line and we had to leave if we wanted to see Florence. So we left. The train to Firenze was fantastic. Tuscany really is beautiful.
As soon as we arrived in Florence we were all able to breathe. It felt so much calmer than Rome, obviously. We first went to the Uffizi gallery and saw hundreds of incredible paintings including the Birth of Venus. I have no sufficient way of describing the experiences of the galleries. They were fascinating.
We walked the streets for a while and shopped. There were stands everywhere where you could barter. And you know you can’t help but to barter. It’s fun… just say it.
I had the best food of my life this night. Fettuccini with pore mushroom sauce. Italy really does have the best Italian food….. but olive garden is close.
At this point in our journey we are all exhausted…we sleep really hard this night especially. And we all get over 8 hours of sleep which is a first. We wake up and walk outside our door to the Academia with the statue of David. Who knew that the statue was huge? And exceptional? I wanted to see it, but had no clue how neat it was. You could stare at it forever I think.
From here we ate really good pizza and then hit the streets for our last 2 hours. Luke and I bought lots of Christmas Presents thanks to bartering.
We had a rough time making it home….. it’s a long story. Here’s it in brief form- late for our train, wrong airport, and an hour long taxi with a man that speaks no English and definitely doesn’t know where our airport is….he stared at his GPS and we all understood that it was taking us in circles. He finally saw a sign and said “AEROPORTO!!” and we all clapped.
We made it to Dublin that evening and left for N.I. the next morning.

Italy was beyond any expectations… and the experience made all of us bitter about being in Ireland. Italy is so much cooler : )

Thanks for thinking of me on my birthday. It’s good to finally be 21

Well I will be turning 21 in Italy in a matter of hours.

I'll tell the pope you said hi

So the hostels reservations are done. That's good since we leave in 2 days?!?!

I appear to be the only one experiencing hints of anxiety about not having anything ready....


I'm getting very excited though. I mean seeing the statue of David, the Colloseum, and Vatican City... it will be incredible.

hi again,
yesterday and today have actually been good. Stan, JBU's campus pastor, is here so we are acting like we actually do things.... Yesterday we went to Saul church, which is where St. Patrick preached his first sermon (apparently). It was really neat. It is an Anglican/Episcopalian church and the dean gave us communion. I will put pictures up in the next day or two (i have to steal them from Jacob).
Then Stan was taking everyone out to eat and I didn't feel like going.. sometimes you just need to be alone.. so i stayed home and finished a paper and listened to music.

Today we had class and then traveled to Armagh which is the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland. This is the town which has the protestant and catholic church facing eachother on opposing hillsides. Turns out it really isn't that dramatic... but still an interesting place. You will really just need to wait until I get pictures up for me to explain what they looked like... i won't do them justice. The Catholic church was really incredible and HUGE.
For you Catholic friends of mine- The Pope just elected 23 new cardinals this morning. And I definitely saw one. When we went to visit the church they were holding mass for all of the Catholic students in the town. We were able to sit in and someone came and told us that the bishop of Armagh, and the primate of Ireland, was just elected Cardinal and was going to be making an appearance at the end of mass. However, we were not going to be staying til the end. I just happened to go to the restroom and had to walk around the outside of the church. There were a few news reporters and I glanced over and all of a sudden there he was.... walking into the church. Sean Baptist Brady is his name.. you can look him up. It was really incredible to randomly see him. :)
Then we went to the first ever public library in Ireland. Basically there were a lot of really old books. If you know me at all, you will know that this intersted me very little. I saw a first edition of gullivers travels and held a lot of books published in the 1500s... eh.
Then on to the Protestant church. It was older, but not near as beautiful as the Catholic church. Pictures will come soon enough...

Then we went to Pizza Hut. Seriously, I love pizza hut... or just american food. It's SO good. :)



There have been a few hard days, but we are in the very middle so i guess it's expected. Tomorrow we go to Belfast and in a week I will be 21 and in Italy. weird.


I posted pictures... please enjoy

So remember when I went to the Narnia Forest... well here are some pictures



The Catholic Church

not my hand at the old library

Luke with old books

The Protestant Church

So aparently the cowboys are doing really well. This picture was taken the day they played (and lost) to the Patriots. This was our "emotion" picture before the game began.

This is the big swing on the 'estate' that I will one day live on :) Meg and I decided to spider swing... sometimes it's necessary

Luke being a horse whisperer



oh and I got walmart in a box today.... thank you parents. I appreciate it.

AHHHH!!!!

OH MY GOSH.... I am the most excited i've ever been in my whole life.

i'm laying in my bed... with wireless internet.

hallelujah, the U.K. finally caught up with broadband


so excited.

enough of that

so no more complaining....

all is well.

I have been searching for internships, it's hard to decide.

Luke and I went on a walk into the beautiful countryside and we found two horses that let us pet them and feed them.
Then we found a field with pieces of skulls and a ribcage... it was gross.

Later I went for a 'run' (walk) and went to the Dundrum Castle and hung out with some cows... I determined that the best thing about Ireland is that there are no snakes. and I stand by that. I walked through the woods on this random path and did not have to frantically check the ground. Thank goodness.

emails are wonderful.... letters are fantastic... remember that.

a little complaining.

Well, I’m still in Ireland…still doing nothing. I try really hard to not complain… but this is my blog right? We did evaluations today and I wrote that my experience thus far has been a 1 out of 5. I haven’t really expressed this to you Americans….
We are not having an Ireland experience… besides the fact that Northern Ireland is actually just England…. we are having a JBU experience in Ireland. I am with the same people every day all day (and I love these people…. Don’t get that wrong). We have one day in the city and our “Queens University class” is with thirty 70 year olds. This isn’t even really complaining, but it should be noted that my expectations of this experience is much different than reality. As far as understanding the culture of the Irish- I understand how the older generation lives… I have no clue how my generation lives. I have never met anyone, for longer than 5 minutes, that is under the age of 50.
The one time I felt like I had a true ‘cultural experience’ was sitting with my host-dad in his living room. We talked for probably two hours about anything and everything… it is a good memory and I am happy for it…. But what does it teach me about life here? I will see him and his wife maybe once every two weeks. They feed us (wonderful food) and they let us use their phone.
besides the lack of culture.... i do nothing all day. my school work is elementary and they act like we are idiots, so they don't get us any actual assignments. We've only had 2 outside writing assignments... i'm going to have a heart attack when I go to JBU next semester.
I still have good days and yesterday we went into Tallymore forest (C.S. Lewis’ Narnia) and it was absolutely beautiful….. but if I had the chance to change to a trip by myself to Russia, I would. At least I would actually live in a culture. I feel like, at best, I live in the U.K… with 15 people I knew in America. It’s frustrating to say the least. Everyone is sharing the frustration.. which only makes the frustration easier.

Anyways…………..I will tell of a few things we have been doing…

We saw the supposed grave of St. Patrick. It was cool.

We’ve noticed a different ‘spiritual’ scene here… At church last Sunday a few girls were prophesied to… then one day getting off the bus a 20-something guy handed me a piece of paper and asked me to hand it to ‘that boy’ (Luke). I thought it was his number to be honest… but Luke read it and it was Scripture and he wrote that he felt God telling him to pass this to Luke and wrote some more about what he felt God was trying to tell him. Then yesterday we went to church in Elkana and the moment I walked in, I wanted to walk out. I have never felt such an eerie presence in my life. It was supposed to be ‘charismatic’ but it wasn’t. it was just strange.

We went to our Literature professor's home and they served us a feast. So much good food. mmm
Dr. Ostrander (our Dean... and the dad of the girls I watch at school) arrived yesterday and leaves tomorrow, but it's wonderful to have a new face. We got to see the 'rich' side of Belfast where aparently homes go for 7 million dollars... ridiculous.

That's about it.... send me some mail though ok? thanks. :)

I spend a lot of time trying to figure out my life plan.. any suggestions?

italia

So emily and I just booked tickets to ITALY!!!!!!


we don't really know what we are doing.. but we got cheap tickets :)

we are flying into Pisa/Florence and flying out of Bologna.... i mean... c'mon... it'll be easy

hi, from newcastle...again

So my ‘culture shock’ this week has taken an interesting form… I constantly think I see someone from home. I’ve ‘seen’ someone I know for the past few days. It’s ridiculous.

Anyways,
So we went to Belfast for our first lecture in Irish Art. Honestly, it’s not that great. We are by far the youngest people by 30 years. It’s not what any of us had in mind…..

But after class we were able to shop and do whatever we wanted (which is always a special treat). In some thrift store I found the best deal of my life… VHS for 99p. I was a tough decision but I bought three movies that I thought best suited the needs of the people J
1. Now and Then (everybody needs a good chick flick)
2. Spice Girls live in Istanbul
3. The Labyrinth (David Bowie…c’mon)
I’m pretty excited about them.

Moving along… so we did some more shopping, Luke got some new shoes, I got some shirts… Then Luke and I went out to eat at Bourbon (the food of New Orleans…. It was close to where we were) It was fairly expensive, but we needed a good meal. The restaurants are very different here. Service is definitely not a priority……(this to be noted later on)

We met up with more JBUers and road the long bus home. My body is learning to handle the bus and van trips, but Luke’s is not. I think he now gets headaches as soon as he steps in one.

Friday we had our Philosophy class and we had a lecture from someone named Dr. Robert Rogers about Pascal. It was interesting. Apparently this guy has a degree in Philosophy of religious history (or something)… Luke was a lot more interested than I was of course

That evening we were going to the play Pygmalion. I had never heard of it, but it is the play of which My Fair Lady is based. Before we went there, we went out to eat at Pizza Hut. I was not that excited about greasy pizza, but I am so glad we went. We had feasts, literally. This place was by far the cleanest pizza place I had ever been in and it is the only place that has free refills on pop (!!!). So Luke, myself, and Tyson shares a feast for 3. This consists of 3 starters (we chose cheesy garlic bread, potato wedges, and dippin’ chickin’) a large pizza (half pepperoni and half spicy chicken) and three deserts (two cheesecakes and a chocolate fudge cake)… My meal cost half as much here as it did at Bourbon. Not only that.. but the service here was so refreshing. Most of the time your drinks never get filled and you wait 20 minutes for your bill. So basically, it was really good.

Then we went to Pygmalion.. I have never seen a legit/non-highschool play so I loved it. Others said it wasn’t that impressive… but who am I to say.

Now it’s Saturday and we all have nothing to do… so we are at the library
Tomorrow we meet our ‘friendship families’ and it will be a long day.

I hope all is well, please email me... i'm bored and I need the drama from your lives to entertain me










here are a few pictures...

this is when Luke and a few others from the group climbed the mountain.... it is beautiful... and freezing... and I did not go :)



This is a picture (you can barely see) of Mollie, Meg, me, and Emily... we rode our bikes to the beach... and we obviously felt very legit.


This is the tower of Scrabo (spelling??)... we walked the ridiculous amount of spiraling stairs to the top...so windy

nothing much to say

turns out the 'trek' to Newcastle is getting old. fast.

it's cold, and i still have to ride my bike back. ew.

enough complaining,
tomorrow we have our first lecture in Belfast... about Art. which I am already pretty much a genius at.

lots of people have been stressing about papers. Thankfully i'm not one of them. We have more time than I know what to do with...

Yesterday we went to Scrabo Tower by Strangford Lough (lake)... it again was really pretty (i'll put a picture up next time) and this is where C.S. Lewis used to walk and gain inspiration... really yesterday I didn't feel that great. Those bus rides are killing me. But I thought of how much mom and grandma would've liked it. We had a lecture on all the different birds that call this place home. you two would've loved it. Many people come just to bird watch... i'm not one of those people :)

Friday we go to the Grand Opera House and watch Pygmalion... it'll be very nice to have a night out.

Sunday we are picked up by our host families and I caught glimpse of my host mother and she looks extremely nice.. as much as you can gather from a glimpse. I am partnered with Emily and Carrie. Both are talkers, so I won't have to do much :). They will take us to church and be with us for the afternoon.

I can't think of much else... but i'd love to hear all of your voices... so dish out the money and call me. 011-44-7807873677

well, now that I learned how to better organize these picture, i must ask your forgiveness for the previous posts.... atleast there are pictures.


Jacob took these pictures from atop the the Dundrum Castle and the view is incredible. We live right on that inlet. You can see the larger homes on the left....if you go a few blocks to the right, that is where we are. That tide goes in and out two times a day.

This pictures shows a clear view of our 'beach' It is the sandy area right in the middle. We go to the right side and on the left side is where the seals are... we aren't allowed there.



this is another view and it shows my favorite thing about the Ireland landscape... the land is divided by hedges. fantastic.

this is the beach.