Barrington's Lodge Limerick

i have a strange feeling that i will not be staying on top of this until i get home...i've been crazy busy with school and trying to maintain somewhat of a social life. well anyway, my mom will be here on Friday! i'm so excited, i just can't wait. my aunt and my cousin are coming too and we're going to have so much fun! well time to get more work done so that i'll be able to have fun while they're here! love you all and i'll be home a month from today!

... and got a great big "welcome home" from the guy who was working the kitchen/reception/doorman/guard, who we for sure woke up and got him to make us chicken salad sandwiches on the house, while we battled with each other on the floor (classy), and then battled with him about American versus Canadian accents, and Irish versus English versus Scottish accents. You cant tell the difference unless you are one of them or they are one of us. You just cant ...

so i haven't updated in a while and i have about 6 entries that i need to post, but i've been super busy with midterms! i miss everyone and this weekend i will hopefully be posting pictures and entries of everything that i did while i was in the UK. i just wanted to let everyone know that i'm ok and just trying to power through all this school work.

We got up early yesterday and drove down to Cork, stopping in Blarney on the way down. There Frank kissed the Blarney stone in Blarney Castle, ensuring him the "gift of gab"- we'll see!

We stopped in Cork and went to an art museum there and had lunch in the museum cafe. I must say we have been blessed with outstanding food on this trip.

From there we drove to Cobh, the port from which almost all of our ancestors emigrated from Ireland to the US, as ...

... in the towers.there was a great there.then we went to Bunratty Castle and Folk Park in Bunratty.there we saw all these recreated rooms.then we went to the top were we saw an amazing view.after that we went to see the recreated houses.then after that we went to a restaurant called Auntie Lena's.there dad got bangers & mash,and i got my first B.L.T. there.then we played in adare park.

July 15-17: Ennis, Clare
Pitch and putt (free game)
-Bosh being so cocky he gives the byes one stroke on every hole, fails to make a single birdie, gets dominated
-Smitty's unreal (read: flukey) 50 yard hole out (ball bounced off bunker lip, 90 degree change of direction)

"proper"
"cochise" (farmboy)
"blocked"
"...like"
"very bad, lads"

Nazi-Jew-American (alternative to RPS)

Coastal tour with Helen
-La Hinch
-Cliffs of Moher
-Doolin

Nolie (sp?)
-mom gardening to AC/DC
-Rasta George = Little Jacob pray to Jah
-J.J. Cale - Mama Don't
-brawl with girls
"you ...

... friends of the deceased gathering together for the purpose of consoling one another for their loss, among other reasons (many historical and traditional theories for the original purpose of the waking institution have been put forward). The term "merry wake" specifically refers to those wakes where merry-making and frivolity, as well as music, dance, games, storytelling, other amusements, and horseplay (sometimes becoming actual fighting) occur. Although the Irish were not ...

... regional Irish music styles have been described and note has been made of well-known musicians from each area. Sliabh Luachra is associated primarily with the fiddle and button accordion and playing slow airs, slides, and polkas. Its style consists of relaxed bowing, lightness and warmth, fast pace, liveliness, great musical emotion, ornamentation with the left hand and rhythm with the right, use of open strings for a drone, and bassing. Some of the famous musicians ...

... hunt. Inside there were only finished woolen garments BUT there was a fine display of crystal glassware...Waterford, Wedgwood and Galway. We were struck by a particular style and cut of Galway crystal and given the nod from me I'm sure we would have spent the rest of our months allowance and shipped a table setting home. I dragged Anne out screaming but not before we had fed our faces in the canteen on an upper level. I had an Irish stew...well why not ...