Happy Pancake Tuesday!
Today is Pancake Tuesday. One of my students in my class that I just teach math to, brought in Pancakes to have during their recess. For dinner today, Miriam made Chicken Curry, and then made pancakes for dessert. She said that they don't use syrup, they use lemon juice and vanilla sugar. I tried a drop of lemon juice and vanilla sugar on a bite of my pancake, and well that was enough for me. I stuck to the maple syrup. haha At least I tried it! I have tried so many foods over here! If I were at home I would have never ate half the things I have ate over here! My mom and dad are so proud of me, but I am not sure they believe that I am eating all these things! haha
Well its my last week of student teaching. Only three more days to go. I am very ready to be home and see my friends and family, but yet I will miss Ireland. I am definitely not ready for the snow, I haven't seen snow in just over 2 months! It will be shocking to be back in the cold and all that snow!! I have told my main group of four students that this is my last week, and they are very sad that I will be leaving. I am sad to be leaving to, but so ready to be done and graduate! Graduation is just around the corner! I have even ordered my graduation cap, gown and tassel! :)
Oh and this week, I will get my free Milkshake! I can't wait!! :)
Have a fantastic week! Emily, Megan and I are heading to Dublin on Saturday to stay there for the weekend so that we will be there already to catch our flight back home on Monday.
<3 Amber
Well for the next two months my life will be in Galway, Ireland. I will be doing my student teaching here. It is absolutely beautiful and seems like a great town! I can't wait to see what this experience has to offer me!
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Birthday Week
Hello!
Well I am officially a year older..23. For my birthday on Tuesday, we went out to this pub called "The Crane Bar" to hear some Irish music. It was a very good time. At school on Tuesday, one of my students gave me a dinosaur sillyband for my birthday. Then the class that I only teach maths to, made me a card that had a "sweet" aka candy taped to it. It was so cute. Then at lunch the teacher from the class that I teach maths to, brought in a birthday treat for the teachers. It was these little cadburry cakes. They were delicious! That was so nice of her!
On Wednesday, I had my final student teaching observation. Jim, from UMD, came over to observe us teaching. It went very well. Then on Thursday, Jim, and us girls went out to dinner at this place called La Salsa. I ordered a quesadilla and taco fries. The taco fries were amazing!
Friday night, Colin, David, Cassie, Brendean, Megan, Emily, and I went to a Galway United soccer game. We lost, but it was so much fun. But let me tell you, here in Ireland it is very normal and common to say F***. It almost seems as though it isn't a bad word here. So let me tell you, when at a soccer game, if I had a nickel for all the times I heard that word, I could have paid for my whole trip here! If I counted all the times I heard it since being in Galway, I could have paid for everyones trip I think! haha.
On Saturday, Cassie and I went to the Aran Islands. To get there we took an hour long bus ride, and then a 40 minute ferry ride. The ticket was 26 Euro, and that included the bus rides and ferry rides to and from the Islands. When we arrived on the island, we first rented bikes for 10 Euro. We then went and ate lunch. After lunch we began our biking journey around the island. It started off a bit rough, as I was biking and changing gears, the chain came off...so Cassie and I put the chain back on and off we went. As we were fixing it though, a nice lad came over and asked us if we got it fixed and gave us a tip if it happens again. His tip was if it happens again, to keep petaling and switch it back to the gear it was originally in....well let me tell you, it happened again, and his tip didn't work. So once again, Cassie and I were putting the chain back on my bike! haha. I was afraid to change gears ever again after the two instances, but I did actually change the gears a couple times after that with no problems! :) lol. Our bike ride around the Island was so amazing. We were biking along the coast, so the sights were just gorgeous. Along our bike ride we saw, a donkey, a very green house, horses, seals, cows, calfs!, and a teapot. Yes a teapot. There was a teapot sitting on the stone wall, and there were no houses around, so I am wondering how it got there and why it was there! haha. The seals were so neat to see just resting out in the water. They looked like logs or rocks in the water until I paid 2 Euro to use the binoculars to see out there and see that it was seals not logs or rocks. We stopped at a beach for a rest brake and to eat some cookies that I had packed. Our biking adventure, was quite the workout! There were so many hills that we had to bike up!
Saturday night, the group went to the Galway Greyhound Dog Races. It was quite the experience. It was very fun. There were two people behind us that won just about every race. They were winning big money last night! It was actually getting annoying with their winning all the time. They would dance and cheer each time they won. haha After the races, we met up with Colin and went to the pub called O'Tooles. It was a lot of fun. They had a man there playing the guitar and singing songs. He would take requests and play the song if he knew it. He played some American songs just for us. haha.
Well today, is a typical Sunday of homework. I need to finish planning for my last unit that I am teaching during my last week of student teaching! Crazy how time flies! I am also planning on starting to pack, and work on assignments for classes that are due next weekend. I need to get those assignments done before I leave for Dublin on Saturday.
Hope everyone is having a fantastic weekend!
<3 Amber
Well I am officially a year older..23. For my birthday on Tuesday, we went out to this pub called "The Crane Bar" to hear some Irish music. It was a very good time. At school on Tuesday, one of my students gave me a dinosaur sillyband for my birthday. Then the class that I only teach maths to, made me a card that had a "sweet" aka candy taped to it. It was so cute. Then at lunch the teacher from the class that I teach maths to, brought in a birthday treat for the teachers. It was these little cadburry cakes. They were delicious! That was so nice of her!
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| Bulmers Pear- My drink of choice |
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| The Group |
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| The live Irish music |
On Wednesday, I had my final student teaching observation. Jim, from UMD, came over to observe us teaching. It went very well. Then on Thursday, Jim, and us girls went out to dinner at this place called La Salsa. I ordered a quesadilla and taco fries. The taco fries were amazing!
Friday night, Colin, David, Cassie, Brendean, Megan, Emily, and I went to a Galway United soccer game. We lost, but it was so much fun. But let me tell you, here in Ireland it is very normal and common to say F***. It almost seems as though it isn't a bad word here. So let me tell you, when at a soccer game, if I had a nickel for all the times I heard that word, I could have paid for my whole trip here! If I counted all the times I heard it since being in Galway, I could have paid for everyones trip I think! haha.
On Saturday, Cassie and I went to the Aran Islands. To get there we took an hour long bus ride, and then a 40 minute ferry ride. The ticket was 26 Euro, and that included the bus rides and ferry rides to and from the Islands. When we arrived on the island, we first rented bikes for 10 Euro. We then went and ate lunch. After lunch we began our biking journey around the island. It started off a bit rough, as I was biking and changing gears, the chain came off...so Cassie and I put the chain back on and off we went. As we were fixing it though, a nice lad came over and asked us if we got it fixed and gave us a tip if it happens again. His tip was if it happens again, to keep petaling and switch it back to the gear it was originally in....well let me tell you, it happened again, and his tip didn't work. So once again, Cassie and I were putting the chain back on my bike! haha. I was afraid to change gears ever again after the two instances, but I did actually change the gears a couple times after that with no problems! :) lol. Our bike ride around the Island was so amazing. We were biking along the coast, so the sights were just gorgeous. Along our bike ride we saw, a donkey, a very green house, horses, seals, cows, calfs!, and a teapot. Yes a teapot. There was a teapot sitting on the stone wall, and there were no houses around, so I am wondering how it got there and why it was there! haha. The seals were so neat to see just resting out in the water. They looked like logs or rocks in the water until I paid 2 Euro to use the binoculars to see out there and see that it was seals not logs or rocks. We stopped at a beach for a rest brake and to eat some cookies that I had packed. Our biking adventure, was quite the workout! There were so many hills that we had to bike up!
Saturday night, the group went to the Galway Greyhound Dog Races. It was quite the experience. It was very fun. There were two people behind us that won just about every race. They were winning big money last night! It was actually getting annoying with their winning all the time. They would dance and cheer each time they won. haha After the races, we met up with Colin and went to the pub called O'Tooles. It was a lot of fun. They had a man there playing the guitar and singing songs. He would take requests and play the song if he knew it. He played some American songs just for us. haha.
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| A view along our bike ride |
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| our friend the Donkey |
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| He really liked us we wanted to pet him, but we think he thought we had food for him! haha |
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| The green house |
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| another great sight along our bike ride- some swans |
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| a local Irish man and his dog going along the road |
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| yepp there's me and my bike! haha |
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| the seals just chilling out in the water (had to make the picture a bit larger so you could see them better) |
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| beautiful horses along our bike ride |
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| the cows and their calves |
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| Cassie and I at the beach having our rest brake consisting of cookies! :) |
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| The random tea kettle |
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| another view of along our bike ride around the island |
Well today, is a typical Sunday of homework. I need to finish planning for my last unit that I am teaching during my last week of student teaching! Crazy how time flies! I am also planning on starting to pack, and work on assignments for classes that are due next weekend. I need to get those assignments done before I leave for Dublin on Saturday.
Hope everyone is having a fantastic weekend!
<3 Amber
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Midterm Break!!
Hello Everyone!!
Well what a great week off I have had! Monday-Wednesday I just hung around Galway. Some of the things that I did were go t the Cinema, walk the Prom, and do some shopping. Emily, Megan, Brendean and I went and saw "Gnomeo and Juliet" at the cinema. It was a very funny movie, but the people at the movie didn't laugh. We were the only ones laughing..but we think that the kids weren't really getting the humor so thats why they weren't laughing. It was kind of adult humor. Megan, Brendean, Emily, David and myself walked the Prom one day. It was a gorgeous day out, and we saw millions of swans.
Wednesday night, I had to pack and get ready for London. Our flight left Thursday at 6:15am! Which meant we (David, Collin-a friend of David's from Texas, and I) needed to take a 1:45 bus to Dublin to meet up with Cassie in Dublin. Thursday was a very early morning, which made it a very long day! The flight from Dublin to London-Gatwick, was about one hour. When we arrived in London, we had to figure out how to get from Gatwick airport, to London city..this was proving to be more difficult then we thought. We finally decided to take a train! :) It was very fun taking a train! When we arrived in London city, we found a place to eat breakfast. Little did we know we were eating breakfast right across the street from Buckingham Palace. So after breakfast we began our touring of London, starting with Buckingham Palace. This building is absolutely amazing! Each day we covered a lot of London. Here are the things that we saw, Big Ben, Britain War Museum, Westminster Abbey, Thames River Boat Cruise, Parliament, the London Eye, London Bridge, Tower Bridge, Buckingham Palace Mews, Natural History Museum, Hyde Park, Kensington Palace (where we went on the "Enchanted Palace" tour, the changing of the Guards at Buckingham Palace, London Tower, Bourough Market, Majesty's Theatre, St. Paul's Cathedral, Wimbledon, and the Chelsea Football Club. Cassie and I went and saw "The Phantom of the Opera" at Majesty's Theatre. It was a very good performance! OHHH and since we bought the tickets for this performance, that meant we needed to go and get a nice outfit for the night. While we shopped the guys went to a pub..we were to meet up with them after, but Cassie and I got lost. We were walking all over London, before we finally decided to have a taxi take us to the pub...it didn't help though that we didn't bring our map and we also only knew the street that the pub was on but didn't know which end of the street...but we couldn't even find our way to the street so it really didn't matter if we knew where the pub was on the street! haha. I bought a dress, leggings, and shoes for 53 Pounds. Not to bad! At the Kensington Palace, they had made it into an "Enchanted Palace" which was like a scavenger hunt/haunted house. We had to walk into the different rooms, and figure out which princess belonged to each room. The Buckingham Palace Mews, was where the horses are kept and the different carriages are kept. Wimbledon and the Chelsea Football Club, were so awesome! At Wimbledon, we got to go on a tour that allowed us to see things such as the different courts, the media room, the players entrance etc. At Chelsea, we didn't actually go on the tour, but we got to go into the Museum, see the field from sitting in the family box (where the players family members sit).
Each day we had adventures using the Tube. At one point we got on and got off a train, and then got on and off a train again, and then finally got on a tube and hoped to make it to where we needed to be. Another time when we needed to take one of the Tube lines all the way to the end, which was very far out from London city center, to Wimbledon, there were parts of the Tube closed for routine repairs..that made for quite the trip of getting on and of the Tube multiple times, and trying to figure out what bus to take to finish our route to Wimbledon. Lets just say we got off too soon, and had to walk 30 minutes in the rain to get to Wimbledon, but it was so worth it! When we tried to take the tube to get to the place where we needed to be to catch the bus to the airport on our last night, we had to take 5 different tubes in order to get to where we needed to be due to either just needing to change Tube routes like normal, or due to the fact that the Tube would "terminate" so we would have to get off and get on a different tube.
As for where we stayed...well we were there three nights but only stayed in hostels for two of the nights. The first night we stayed in the Astor Hyde Hostel, where we were in a room with 12 beds. It was quite the experience after having our own room in Cork. The second night we stayed in The Green Man. We found a building labeled "The Green Man", but it was a bar...so we were like ummmm shoot this isn't it. BUT it was!! The hostel was above the bar! It was actually really nice. The people there were very nice. Our room was for 9 people. Here we had a guy from Hong Kong, named Welly, a girl from Switzerland, a girl from Canada, and two other girls. At the hostel, the bar is open 24hrs a day for those staying at the hostel. The bar closes to the public at around midnight, and then it is open to the hostel guests the rest of the night and if you wanted to have a drink for breakfast you could. For breakfast in both of these hostels, we had toast and cereal. The night we stayed at the Green Man, we came back and went to the bar at our hostel. David, Cassie, Welly, and I hung out with one of the workers who had just gotten off work. His name was Fausdo. He was quite the funny guy, and he really wanted us to like him. The next day when we went to Wimbledon, Welly came with us. So you might be wondering what we did our last night there for sleeping??...well here is what we did: So we had another early flight out at 6:15am, so we would have to be to the airport very early. So we had planned to stay at a bar until midnight, then catch a bus or something to the Stanstead Airport, and hang out there till the flight would leave....WELL that didn't quite work out quite that way. We hung out at a pub, but they closed at six so we had to try and find somewhere else to hang out. We eventually made our way to the side of town where we were to find the bus to take to Stanstead. There was a pub right next to the bus stop so we sat in there having a drink and playing the game called "13". We took the 11:30 bus to the airport and we arrived at 12:37. When we arrived, all the counters were closed, so we had to sleep on the airport floor! It was pretty gross. I never would have pictured myself sleeping on the airport floor. Needless to say I didn't sleep very well on the floor. Finally between the flight and bus back to Galway, we arrived in Galway at 11:45am. It was a long night of not much sleep.
Well what a great week off I have had! Monday-Wednesday I just hung around Galway. Some of the things that I did were go t the Cinema, walk the Prom, and do some shopping. Emily, Megan, Brendean and I went and saw "Gnomeo and Juliet" at the cinema. It was a very funny movie, but the people at the movie didn't laugh. We were the only ones laughing..but we think that the kids weren't really getting the humor so thats why they weren't laughing. It was kind of adult humor. Megan, Brendean, Emily, David and myself walked the Prom one day. It was a gorgeous day out, and we saw millions of swans.
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| The Spanish Arch |
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| This is a famous sight that is found on many postcards |
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| All the beautiful swans |
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| The walk along the Prom |
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| Again the view from the Prom |
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| Another view from the Prom |
Wednesday night, I had to pack and get ready for London. Our flight left Thursday at 6:15am! Which meant we (David, Collin-a friend of David's from Texas, and I) needed to take a 1:45 bus to Dublin to meet up with Cassie in Dublin. Thursday was a very early morning, which made it a very long day! The flight from Dublin to London-Gatwick, was about one hour. When we arrived in London, we had to figure out how to get from Gatwick airport, to London city..this was proving to be more difficult then we thought. We finally decided to take a train! :) It was very fun taking a train! When we arrived in London city, we found a place to eat breakfast. Little did we know we were eating breakfast right across the street from Buckingham Palace. So after breakfast we began our touring of London, starting with Buckingham Palace. This building is absolutely amazing! Each day we covered a lot of London. Here are the things that we saw, Big Ben, Britain War Museum, Westminster Abbey, Thames River Boat Cruise, Parliament, the London Eye, London Bridge, Tower Bridge, Buckingham Palace Mews, Natural History Museum, Hyde Park, Kensington Palace (where we went on the "Enchanted Palace" tour, the changing of the Guards at Buckingham Palace, London Tower, Bourough Market, Majesty's Theatre, St. Paul's Cathedral, Wimbledon, and the Chelsea Football Club. Cassie and I went and saw "The Phantom of the Opera" at Majesty's Theatre. It was a very good performance! OHHH and since we bought the tickets for this performance, that meant we needed to go and get a nice outfit for the night. While we shopped the guys went to a pub..we were to meet up with them after, but Cassie and I got lost. We were walking all over London, before we finally decided to have a taxi take us to the pub...it didn't help though that we didn't bring our map and we also only knew the street that the pub was on but didn't know which end of the street...but we couldn't even find our way to the street so it really didn't matter if we knew where the pub was on the street! haha. I bought a dress, leggings, and shoes for 53 Pounds. Not to bad! At the Kensington Palace, they had made it into an "Enchanted Palace" which was like a scavenger hunt/haunted house. We had to walk into the different rooms, and figure out which princess belonged to each room. The Buckingham Palace Mews, was where the horses are kept and the different carriages are kept. Wimbledon and the Chelsea Football Club, were so awesome! At Wimbledon, we got to go on a tour that allowed us to see things such as the different courts, the media room, the players entrance etc. At Chelsea, we didn't actually go on the tour, but we got to go into the Museum, see the field from sitting in the family box (where the players family members sit).
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| Big Ben |
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| West Minister Abbey |
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| one of the horses at the Buckingham Mews |
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| Kensington Palace |
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| Buckingham Palace |
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| Riding down the street |
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| Tower Bridge and the HMS Belfast ship |
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| Me on the Tower Bride |
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| Cassie and I before the Opera |
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| St. Paul's Cathedral |
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| Me at Wimbledon on court 1 |
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| Me at Wimbledon |
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| Chelsea Fooball Club |
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| Chelsea Football Field |
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| London Bridge at night |
Each day we had adventures using the Tube. At one point we got on and got off a train, and then got on and off a train again, and then finally got on a tube and hoped to make it to where we needed to be. Another time when we needed to take one of the Tube lines all the way to the end, which was very far out from London city center, to Wimbledon, there were parts of the Tube closed for routine repairs..that made for quite the trip of getting on and of the Tube multiple times, and trying to figure out what bus to take to finish our route to Wimbledon. Lets just say we got off too soon, and had to walk 30 minutes in the rain to get to Wimbledon, but it was so worth it! When we tried to take the tube to get to the place where we needed to be to catch the bus to the airport on our last night, we had to take 5 different tubes in order to get to where we needed to be due to either just needing to change Tube routes like normal, or due to the fact that the Tube would "terminate" so we would have to get off and get on a different tube.
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| The Tube |
As for where we stayed...well we were there three nights but only stayed in hostels for two of the nights. The first night we stayed in the Astor Hyde Hostel, where we were in a room with 12 beds. It was quite the experience after having our own room in Cork. The second night we stayed in The Green Man. We found a building labeled "The Green Man", but it was a bar...so we were like ummmm shoot this isn't it. BUT it was!! The hostel was above the bar! It was actually really nice. The people there were very nice. Our room was for 9 people. Here we had a guy from Hong Kong, named Welly, a girl from Switzerland, a girl from Canada, and two other girls. At the hostel, the bar is open 24hrs a day for those staying at the hostel. The bar closes to the public at around midnight, and then it is open to the hostel guests the rest of the night and if you wanted to have a drink for breakfast you could. For breakfast in both of these hostels, we had toast and cereal. The night we stayed at the Green Man, we came back and went to the bar at our hostel. David, Cassie, Welly, and I hung out with one of the workers who had just gotten off work. His name was Fausdo. He was quite the funny guy, and he really wanted us to like him. The next day when we went to Wimbledon, Welly came with us. So you might be wondering what we did our last night there for sleeping??...well here is what we did: So we had another early flight out at 6:15am, so we would have to be to the airport very early. So we had planned to stay at a bar until midnight, then catch a bus or something to the Stanstead Airport, and hang out there till the flight would leave....WELL that didn't quite work out quite that way. We hung out at a pub, but they closed at six so we had to try and find somewhere else to hang out. We eventually made our way to the side of town where we were to find the bus to take to Stanstead. There was a pub right next to the bus stop so we sat in there having a drink and playing the game called "13". We took the 11:30 bus to the airport and we arrived at 12:37. When we arrived, all the counters were closed, so we had to sleep on the airport floor! It was pretty gross. I never would have pictured myself sleeping on the airport floor. Needless to say I didn't sleep very well on the floor. Finally between the flight and bus back to Galway, we arrived in Galway at 11:45am. It was a long night of not much sleep.
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| See the hostel check in sign at the bar?! |
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| Our Hostel |
Sunday, February 20, 2011
I kissed a legend!
Hello!! What a fantastic weekend of traveling!
Friday at noon, I got done with school for our week long midterm break!! Cassie, Brendean, Emily, Megan, David, and I took a weekend trip to Cork. We took a bus out Friday at 5pm and arrived there at around 10pm. It was a very long bus ride, but we each tried to sleep a little bit. Then when we got there we went and met up with two girls that David knew from Texas named Heather and Kristin. They were very nice. We stayed at the pub for a little while and then went and checked into our Hostel. Our hostel was called the Kinlay House. The hostel was in walking distance from the center of town and the bus station. We got lucky and had a room that only could hold the six of us instead of ten like we had booked. That was great, because we left our clothes and things in there and took our valuables with us during the day. It lightened our load. The bathroom in our room was soooo tiny, I could literally sit on the toilet and wash my hands or brush my teeth at the same time.
Saturday we took a trip out to Blarney. Kristen and Heather came with us to Blarney. Here we saw the Blarney castle and kissed the legend (the Blarney Stone). The stone was at the top of the castle. It was quite the hike to the hop of the castle. The staircase was a spiral staircase and it was very narrow and seemed to get more narrow the higher up we went. In this castle there was a spot called the Murder Hole...see picture posted below for an understanding of what it is. The view from the top of the castle was absolutely amazing!! We were so high up! Next was kissing the Blarney Stone. This involved sitting down, grabbing two bars while leaning backwards down a whole, having a guy hold onto you, and then really lean down the whole and kiss the stone! It was quite scary actually, but it was so much fun! They took two pictures as we did this, and then we could buy them. They are pretty funny. After this, the rest of the group besides Cassie and myself, took the bus back to Cork to go on the Jamison Whiskey tour, but Cassie and I stayed at the castle and did some wandering and saw some amazing things! We saw crazy looking trees, and went to the fern garden which was just awesome!! After we finished there we took the bus back to Cork, and did some shopping/walking around town. We didn't end up buying anything but we did go into many shops! When the rest of the group came back we went to dinner at A14. It was very delicious! After that we went to two different pubs. One was called the Old Oak and the second pub was called the Hi-B Bar. The Old Oak was a HUGE pub! It seemed to never end! When we went to the Hi-B Bar, it was so tiny and very crowded. We all really enjoyed going to those pubs and spending the day with our new Texas friends, Kristin and Heather! After the pubs, Emily did some dancing on the street! It was so entertaining! Then we went to McDonalds! They have the most amazing chairs in the McDonalds here!
Today, Sunday, we didn't do too much...the town is basically shut down on Sunday's. So we basically ate breakfast, wandered the streets, ate lunch and then caught a bus back to Galway. Tonight, we are going to this pizza place that is close to our house and are going to watch a movie.
Hope everyone had a fantastic weekend!
<3 Amber
Friday at noon, I got done with school for our week long midterm break!! Cassie, Brendean, Emily, Megan, David, and I took a weekend trip to Cork. We took a bus out Friday at 5pm and arrived there at around 10pm. It was a very long bus ride, but we each tried to sleep a little bit. Then when we got there we went and met up with two girls that David knew from Texas named Heather and Kristin. They were very nice. We stayed at the pub for a little while and then went and checked into our Hostel. Our hostel was called the Kinlay House. The hostel was in walking distance from the center of town and the bus station. We got lucky and had a room that only could hold the six of us instead of ten like we had booked. That was great, because we left our clothes and things in there and took our valuables with us during the day. It lightened our load. The bathroom in our room was soooo tiny, I could literally sit on the toilet and wash my hands or brush my teeth at the same time.
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| Our Hostel |
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| The graffiti on the wall of the hostel |
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| our room: 3 sets of bunk beds! |
Saturday we took a trip out to Blarney. Kristen and Heather came with us to Blarney. Here we saw the Blarney castle and kissed the legend (the Blarney Stone). The stone was at the top of the castle. It was quite the hike to the hop of the castle. The staircase was a spiral staircase and it was very narrow and seemed to get more narrow the higher up we went. In this castle there was a spot called the Murder Hole...see picture posted below for an understanding of what it is. The view from the top of the castle was absolutely amazing!! We were so high up! Next was kissing the Blarney Stone. This involved sitting down, grabbing two bars while leaning backwards down a whole, having a guy hold onto you, and then really lean down the whole and kiss the stone! It was quite scary actually, but it was so much fun! They took two pictures as we did this, and then we could buy them. They are pretty funny. After this, the rest of the group besides Cassie and myself, took the bus back to Cork to go on the Jamison Whiskey tour, but Cassie and I stayed at the castle and did some wandering and saw some amazing things! We saw crazy looking trees, and went to the fern garden which was just awesome!! After we finished there we took the bus back to Cork, and did some shopping/walking around town. We didn't end up buying anything but we did go into many shops! When the rest of the group came back we went to dinner at A14. It was very delicious! After that we went to two different pubs. One was called the Old Oak and the second pub was called the Hi-B Bar. The Old Oak was a HUGE pub! It seemed to never end! When we went to the Hi-B Bar, it was so tiny and very crowded. We all really enjoyed going to those pubs and spending the day with our new Texas friends, Kristin and Heather! After the pubs, Emily did some dancing on the street! It was so entertaining! Then we went to McDonalds! They have the most amazing chairs in the McDonalds here!
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| Blarney Castle |
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| kissing the Blarney |
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| sweet looking tree |
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| at the fern garden |
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| thats where the blarney stone |
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| the McDonalds Chairs! |
Today, Sunday, we didn't do too much...the town is basically shut down on Sunday's. So we basically ate breakfast, wandered the streets, ate lunch and then caught a bus back to Galway. Tonight, we are going to this pizza place that is close to our house and are going to watch a movie.
Hope everyone had a fantastic weekend!
<3 Amber
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