Leprechauns and Shamrocks

5 Days left

2006-05-23T19:55:00.000+01:00

And so the Irish adventure is coming to an end. In 5 days we will be in Italy, yay Italy!! After 11 days there we will be back in Ireland for our 4 final days, then it's back home. Yay home, it's been a nice adventure with lots of good stories to bring back. The bad thing is that I will no longer get to live with Kyle, and we are moving farther away from him.
So there has been a lot that I miss about home but Ireland has taught me many things and I will miss it and the cool people I met here.
It's amazing that it took going abroad to meet a girl that goes to my school, she is even an equine science major, bizarre. Anyway pubs are fun, rugby is awesome and buses suck. I hope I never have to take another 4 hour bus ride in my life, especially a hot one while I am thirsty.
Well I should start packing, my folklore final was today and it was very easy, I hope I did well. 2 down and one to go, music on Saturday then another year of college will be gone, how sad. Only a year and a half left for me, hopefully...
That's all for now, I will try to update more before we go to Italy but I can't promise anything.

Up early

2006-05-09T09:29:00.000+01:00

Since I'm up and I have nothing to do today, except finish my research paper, I thought I'd update. This Saturday was our 2 yr anniversary so we went to Kilkenny and Kildare- to the National Stud. It was much fun, Kyle picked Kilkenny and of course I picked the Stud, it was raining when we got there but it actually cleared up and turned out to be a lovely day. We went and did a tour of the castle, did a little shopping, had a lovely dinner and went to the movies. We saw this new movie Confetti, it was pretty crazy, those silly British people. Sunday we took a bus to Naas and had to wait for about an hour for the Kildare bus, but we finally got to the Stud. It was so awesome, lots of babies and 2 really cool gardens.

Wow

2006-05-02T08:03:00.000+01:00

So this weekend was awesome, Josh and Mary Kate came to visit and we had lots of fun. We took them out and had a great time, the Stables on Friday, Molly's on Saturday. Kyle even met his favorite rugby player in Molly's which was pretty cool. I'm exhausted after this weekend though, oh man. Finished my folklore essay at half 2 this morning, it's due in an hour- I still have to print it.
Last night I found out that my family is moving but not telling me where or too much about it because they want it to be a surprise- it's insane. My dad was like, we're going to move while you are gone but we aren't telling you where cause we want it to be a surprise. Sarah says its on 18 acres and there's a 3 stall barn so awesome. But I still think it's crazy, and when I get back they will be visiting Allie so my dad tells me I have to find a place to hang out for a while, so I get to stay with Kyle, it's so bizarre.
API took us to Galway on Saturday, it was pretty cool but I totally saw a 12 year old smoking and he looked like a little pick pocket... Then there were kids in a church climbing on this fountain thing, they so looked like they were going to fall I was so nervous, no parents to be found- oh man it was a bit crazy. Sunday we went back up to the Cliffs with Josh and Mary Kate- it was rainy but misty so it looked pretty awesome. We had a bit of bus trouble getting up there though- oh man, first bus was full so they sent another and the guy wouldn't let us buy tickets on the bus. We go inside to buy tickets and the window is closed, after talking to the inspector he tells him to give us tickets- he gets all mad and takes forever and we end up not getting the student rate. Oh man buses suck.
Well that's about it for now I have to go print this stupid paper and turn it in.

Long time no update

2006-04-27T14:20:00.000+01:00

So I'm bad at updating, oh well.
Not too much has happened anyway- weekdays are boring and routine for the most part.
Last weekend Kyle and I went down to Kinsale for the weekend, it was amazing. Sunny and in the 60s, we ended up staying an extra day we liked it so much. A very cute little town on a harbor, lots of sail boats and summer looking houses. We had a yummy seafood dinner- I had mussels. We watched Munster win the rugby game in a nice little pub- Go Munster!!!
This weekend we are going up to Galway with API and Josh is coming to visit us with his girlfriend. Should be lots of fun.
API is taking us out to dinner tonight- yay free food! It's so nice out today I hope it stays like this for the weekend, just like last weekend. We also went to Waterford to tour the crystal factory which was pretty cool, one of the master cutters gave us a demo.

That's it for now- oh I rock at bowling, we went in Cork and overall I beat Kyle- yay me.

All Alone

2006-04-15T22:52:00.000+01:00

So for most of today and tonight I have the apartment to myself, so lonely. My Mom and Sarah left at half 5 this morning and shoud be home some time around 1 am here, hope they have a good trip. I went out to dinner with the Minners tonight, Kyle is staying with them at the bed and breakfast tonight.
It has been such a fun week, I'm sad to see it end. We went on a trail ride in Killarney park on Thursday, Kyle even rode and he got to canter- it was grand. The Minners are all leaving tomorrow afternoon, they are going to King John's castle in the morning- I will be sleeping... Friday was fun, just Sarah, mom and I, we went to Adare and to a celtic park and garden. I got a ton of flower pictures, I was excited. I don't know what I'll do tonight, crash on the couch for a while I suppose, maybe watch a movie.
Tomorrow is Easter- so weird, but I don't think I've actually been home for Easter since I went to college, oh well it still seems odd to me. Well Happy early Easter anyway.

Disco Night

2006-04-05T10:21:00.000+01:00

Oh man last night was so much fun, we went out to a Disco, but we were definetly some of the first ones there. Alison was afraid no one would show up, but that didn't happen. The five of us went out to dance when no one else was out there, oh man Irish guys are so chicken. But once people started showing up it got super crowded and it was awesome, Kyle left the 4 of us girls alone for a few mins and the guys seriously circled us, so we're just like don't make eye contact.... Good times. I even saw a guy from my sociology tutorial, haha it was odd. It was the first place I've been where they haven't been insanly critical of my ID, crazy stuff.
Most definetly slept right through music lecture this morning though, oh well. Ice Age 2 comes out on Friday, I want to see it, I'm movie deprived, Oh and I finally saw Harry Potter!! It was awesome and I've seen it like 3 times now, and we watched House of Wax on Saturday night- now thats a way creepy movie.
Ok well it's shower time.

Hey look I'm updating

2006-04-04T19:48:00.000+01:00

KT says I need to update, I guess she is right.
We did nothing this weekend, it was great, well we did shop a lot which was fun. Yesterday we went out and threw the frisbee around, it was so nice out. And by nice I mean about 50 which was surprisingly warm. There was a rugby match on Sat and Munster won, yay Munster!
So tonight we are going out to a disco which should be interesting at least. That music lecture at 9 tomorrow isn't sounding so good already.
My mom and Sarah are coming out on Saturday, I'm excited, it should be tons of fun. Well I think that is all for now.

Weekend in Germany

2006-03-28T16:13:00.000+01:00

API took us to Dusseldorf this weekend and we ended up taking a train down to Cologne the last day. Kyle, Jeff, Eileen and I got our share of German food that's for sure, Eileen and I got Kale stew- so gross its like baby food really, Kyle had liverwurst and Jeff had an assortment of odd meats. This was at a brewery and the only beer they sell is their own, good fun. We mostly just shopped on Friday, well that's really all we did, then we went out to an Irish pub- how adventurous of us, but it was fun. Saturday some of us took the train to Cologne which was really cool, there was a really old cathedral, and we went shopping in the chocolate museum shop. We got a plane back to Shannon that night and got back to the university at about 11 or so. Kyle and I went for a run on the river walk on Sunday morning- it was drizzling but it was fun. This weekend is the first week in a while we don't have anything planned. We may go out to Blarney or some other day trip. My mom and Sarah are coming in next Saturday along with the Minners, it's exciting. I get all the stuff that I realized would be good to have but left at home, yay! Well I think that's about it for now, I'll keep ya posted.

St. Patty's Day and Such

2006-03-21T21:36:00.000Z

Oh man, such a great weekend. Went to Dublin on Thursday night, it was insane, had this awesome pear cider drink, had some fun with the girls and Kyle, got caught cheating the hotel system. And that was only the beginning, we saw the parade on Friday and headed out to Waterford. Stayed the night in Tramore, heard a guy telling someone he'd hunt someone down and that he was a dead man on the phone, ate some Chinese, stayed at a nice hostel. But seriously Australians are insane!! We were in this hostel and we went to bed fairly early- there were four of us by the way, Alison, Heather, Kyle and I, well we were rudely awoken at 4am by a drunk girl, her boyfriend and another guy. When we got there, there was one bag and all the beds were made so we just picked 4 beds- in an 8 bed dorm room thing, but apparently Kyle picked the wrong bed. She goes over and starts pushing him, waking him up of course saying "You're in my bed, excuse me you are in my bed" Then she throws a drunken fit about people taking beds- when mind you there are 4 other empty beds in the room. Her boyfriend is trying to calm her and tell her to be quiet and go to sleep because there are other people in the room. She also fell and I think she hurt herself, she started crying and her boyfriend tried to help her but she was annoying about it and wouldn't let him help. So she finally goes to sleep with her boyfriend after repeatedly saying I'm not sleeping with you after what you said to me, blah, blah, blah. Anyway she gets up at 7 something in the morning and wakes us up yet again, telling these guys to find the car keys and give them to her because she's taking the car. But she said "I'm not leaving until I know what you are doing, at least I'm not being an asshole about it." Seriously it was crazy and this girl had more than a few screws loose. So that was an adventure.
After a day of shopping in Waterford we headed out to Cashel for the night. Oh man what a place, it was tiny but it turned out to be pretty awesome. We made friends with the hostel manager, Dennis, we went out to a bar- probably the only one in Cashel since I think the whole town was there- and we saw him and he started talking to us. He actually ended up buying all of us drinks and trying to get us to go out somewhere else but we were pretty tired after staying up til 4 on Thursday and a quite interrupted sleep on Friday. We walked into this pub and we got the weirdest looks, it was very awkward but oh well we got over it.
So Cashel was pretty cool we got to see the Rock of Cashel- which is actually a castle- don't let the name fool you. But it is great, up on a hill in the Irish countryside. We also found a really cool old abbey and got to explore that, which was tons of fun. It was great craic. After Cashel we just got a bus back to a little town where we had to catch another bus back to Limerick. Oh and I almost forgot about the drunk guy we met in that little town- this was Saturday waiting for a bus to Cashel. So this clearly drunk man walks up to our little group, no, no he stumbled up really, anyway he has a pack of cigarrets out and offers them to us, "You okay?" we were all fine really. But he must have asked about 20 times, we also shook his hand about the same amount, he just kept sticking his hand out so we just shook it.... Not weird at all, right? So he tells us we can go home and tell everyone we met a pissed paddy, he was quite amusing really. He just took a seat right on the sidewalk next to us and talks about Americans and such and how he can't remember what he does because he's pissed out of his mind. So he finally leaves and he gets about 20 ft away and turns around and waves then he says "See you in America!"

Great adventures. I think that's enough for now, I hope I kept you entertained!!

just an ordinary day

2006-03-09T19:30:00.000Z

I decided to make a blog so Kt can read it.

Nothing much happened today, your ordinary Thursday, it was quite windy and rainy though, that was not fun to walk in. I went to the bank and changed some money into pounds for London this weekend. I'm excited, we are leaving at 645 am tomorrow but we're going to London so it's ok. This week is RAG week here which is basically an excuse for students to party and ba drunk all week long and call paying for it charity.

Well thats really all for now, I must go start packing and I suppose some dinner is in order since it is already 8.00. It is quite hard to cook when 5 other people are trying to cook too.