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Intervarsities
This weekend, I went to Belfast for volleyball intervarsities, a tournament for all the college teams in Ireland. The first day was actually Thursday, but I missed this since I was in Dublin for the Naughton's Thanksgiving dinner. We went 1-5 in our pool play this day so we went to the lowest bracket for the tourney. On Friday, we had a pool play with 4 teams to determine the seeds for the actual playoff style ...
Confused
... Loyalist / Unionists....their territory marked out by Union Jack Flags....with murals of George Best...the Queen...martyrs...massacres....Unionist soldiers who died for the king in the Battle Of the Somme in World War One......Two vastly culturally different societies....but in many ways very similar....and the amazing thing is that they are often separated by the width of a street...yet they might as well be separated by an ocean...we saw the famous Falls Road where ...
2012 Olympics Open In Belfast
Today is the start of the Olympic Games in London! To mark the occasion everyone was encouraged to ring some kind of a bell for 3 minutes starting at 08:12 this morning. So to be part of history, after breakfast Mummy & I sat in the living room and banged pots with wooden spoons for 3 minutes. I had no idea what was going on, but I can tell ya, the ...
6th Travel Post – Belfast, Northern Ireland
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We’ll end here after Day 18 of our trip. We will cover our visit to Portree, Scotland in the next blog. ...
A Lazy Tuesday
... my first experience with mom changing the meeting plan. We agreed, no changing plans when we are in different directions. That is stressful. We found her easy enough. Pat was having a good time in the grocery store and so did I. I bought these decadent Belgian Dark Chocolate shots for dessert tonight. Dinner was going to be pizza with Rosanna and family for Blaire and I. They had every size in the rain jacket, but mine. They were kind of out of ...
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