Haha, hey guys!....greetings from...Los Angeles.:( haha It's good to be home though. I tried to use the interent the morning I left to leave another post but it wouldn't work. It's so good to be back. Mom, Dad and David picked me up. The flight was a good 11 hours long, but not too too bad. Sarah and Netty made an amazing dinner when I got back. Jenn was also over with the kids, it was so good to see everyone, especially the little guys. I woke up this morning at about 430am and almost stayed up...haha, it's gonna take a little while to get used to the time difference. Today I need to do some laundry, relax abit and run a bunch of errands. I can't wait to see all of you for Missy's wedding!! I'm so excited! Anyway, I just wanna thank all of you for reading and replying to my blog all this time. Believe me, it was just as entertaining for me. To be quite honest, I'm gonna miss writing in this thing. If I get enough requests, I'll keep it goin:) hahaha. Well I'm off for the day. I love you all so much and I cannot wait to see you!
Go Raibh Maith Agat!!
Slan mo clan!!
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Monday, August 6, 2007
Last Night in Ireland...
So, pretty much I'm feelin every emotion in the book right now. Us girls are so irritable, and anxious to get home, tired, exhausted, and going to miss it here like crazy at the same time! Haha, we're gettin on each other's last nerve, lol, it's pretty funny. I can't tell you guys enough how excited I am to see you all!!!!!! Tomorrow's flight is gonna be pretty tough, 11+ hours tough...but at least this time around I'll have some company. I'm so excited for you guys to meet Amee, Mom and Dad, you're gonna love her!
Today was fun. We got up early for another full irish breakfast at the hostel and had to deal with switching rooms afterwards, but we finally got settled at about 1pm. First we started off with some lunch at the same Italian restaurant we had the day we got to Dublin this time. It was good. Then.....haha......we decided to WALK to the Jameson Distillery. When we left our hostel it was beautiful...sunny flip flop weather. haha, then as we've been walkin for about 15 minutes, we hear thunder, don't feel rain just hear thunder....within minutes it starts Pouring, the hardest rainfall we've seen the whole trip! My feet we're so slippery I was walkin soooo slow! It was raining so much we had to stand under an awning of a store for about 10 minutes. All of us girls were so drenched. After a few minutes, we stood around, looked at each other, and started busting up laughing! Despire the uncomfortable wetness, it was a funny moment. Finally it lightened up and we were able to finish the walk. The Jameson Distillery was really interested. We even got a free Gingerale and Jameson at the end of the tour! When we got back to the hostel, Colleen made us girls some Irish Coffees...so there ya go, I had one for ya Ma:)
Now Caitilin and I are downstairs, on the interent, but soon I have to go upstairs and repack, because the situation i have goin on right now, is NOT gonna work. Dad, I hope you've been workin out, because my bags are 10 times heavier then they were on the way here, lol!
I cannot wait to see you all when I get back! I'm so looking forward to it, you don't even know!!!!
Love you all so much!
Unfortunately this will be probably my last blog posted in Ireland, but don't worry, the mock posts fromIreland...I'll keep 'em comin! haha, love you guys!!
Today was fun. We got up early for another full irish breakfast at the hostel and had to deal with switching rooms afterwards, but we finally got settled at about 1pm. First we started off with some lunch at the same Italian restaurant we had the day we got to Dublin this time. It was good. Then.....haha......we decided to WALK to the Jameson Distillery. When we left our hostel it was beautiful...sunny flip flop weather. haha, then as we've been walkin for about 15 minutes, we hear thunder, don't feel rain just hear thunder....within minutes it starts Pouring, the hardest rainfall we've seen the whole trip! My feet we're so slippery I was walkin soooo slow! It was raining so much we had to stand under an awning of a store for about 10 minutes. All of us girls were so drenched. After a few minutes, we stood around, looked at each other, and started busting up laughing! Despire the uncomfortable wetness, it was a funny moment. Finally it lightened up and we were able to finish the walk. The Jameson Distillery was really interested. We even got a free Gingerale and Jameson at the end of the tour! When we got back to the hostel, Colleen made us girls some Irish Coffees...so there ya go, I had one for ya Ma:)
Now Caitilin and I are downstairs, on the interent, but soon I have to go upstairs and repack, because the situation i have goin on right now, is NOT gonna work. Dad, I hope you've been workin out, because my bags are 10 times heavier then they were on the way here, lol!
I cannot wait to see you all when I get back! I'm so looking forward to it, you don't even know!!!!
Love you all so much!
Unfortunately this will be probably my last blog posted in Ireland, but don't worry, the mock posts fromIreland...I'll keep 'em comin! haha, love you guys!!
Sunday, August 5, 2007
I miss Galway already...
Good morning guys! So i'm feelin a bit better today, although I woke up kinda out of it, our hostel has complimentary Full Irish Breakfast's for everyone and boy was it good.
So last night didn't turn out like we wanted it to, but it was still okay. We were supposed to meet the group of people who were in Dublin at the Temple Bar District at 10am. When we left the hostel, the very nice man told us to be careful but to have fun and to not come back til 3am...being as tired as were all were, that definitely wasn't the plan, more than anything we just wanted to say goodbye to the rest of the group. As we begin to walk, it starts to rain, which whatever, I'm used to it. But me being the only one who brought an umbrella, everyone wanted to use it...which would befine except from day one my dang umbrella doesn't stay open, so it was a bit difficult. We finally got to the Temple Bar, but it was so insanely packed that we literally could barely walk through. It was ridiculous. I told everyone that we needed to meet earlier than 10pm, but they insisted, lol:) We were all so exhausted from yesterday that we all said, ok 10 more minutes and then we outta here, we took a couple more glances and in less then 10minutes we were. After awhile I just said to hell with my umbrella and all of us girls within 5 minutes we sopping wet! We decided to stop by at a little market on the way home and pick up some chocolate so we could have a movie night. Once we got back to the hostel and the man at the desk saw that one we were drenched and two it was only about 10:30pm on our last Saturday Night...he said that he was gonna lock us out and that we couldn't be back until 3am, jokingly of course, not to worry ma:) Us girls met in mine and Amee's room and we watched the really good movie with Ashley Judd, Double Jeopardy, it was relaxing and we all got a very much needed good nights rest. Today we have a couple things to do, we might go check out the Guinness factory, cause we did all the super touristy stuff last time I was in Dublin, should be fun.
I hope you all have been having a great weekend. I cannot tell you enough how much I miss you all. Don't worry Aunt Debbie, no little leprachauns tricked me, they tried and as difficult as it was, I got out of it:)
Oh and Aunt Leanne, haha, how about I just pretend I'm inIreland and I'll keep writing in my blog when I get back...haha, whattaya say.?! :) Well, do know I now have the travel bug, and I'll be keeping this blog set up for quite some time, so when I do travel next, you'll be the first one to know!!
Haha, love you all!
So last night didn't turn out like we wanted it to, but it was still okay. We were supposed to meet the group of people who were in Dublin at the Temple Bar District at 10am. When we left the hostel, the very nice man told us to be careful but to have fun and to not come back til 3am...being as tired as were all were, that definitely wasn't the plan, more than anything we just wanted to say goodbye to the rest of the group. As we begin to walk, it starts to rain, which whatever, I'm used to it. But me being the only one who brought an umbrella, everyone wanted to use it...which would befine except from day one my dang umbrella doesn't stay open, so it was a bit difficult. We finally got to the Temple Bar, but it was so insanely packed that we literally could barely walk through. It was ridiculous. I told everyone that we needed to meet earlier than 10pm, but they insisted, lol:) We were all so exhausted from yesterday that we all said, ok 10 more minutes and then we outta here, we took a couple more glances and in less then 10minutes we were. After awhile I just said to hell with my umbrella and all of us girls within 5 minutes we sopping wet! We decided to stop by at a little market on the way home and pick up some chocolate so we could have a movie night. Once we got back to the hostel and the man at the desk saw that one we were drenched and two it was only about 10:30pm on our last Saturday Night...he said that he was gonna lock us out and that we couldn't be back until 3am, jokingly of course, not to worry ma:) Us girls met in mine and Amee's room and we watched the really good movie with Ashley Judd, Double Jeopardy, it was relaxing and we all got a very much needed good nights rest. Today we have a couple things to do, we might go check out the Guinness factory, cause we did all the super touristy stuff last time I was in Dublin, should be fun.
I hope you all have been having a great weekend. I cannot tell you enough how much I miss you all. Don't worry Aunt Debbie, no little leprachauns tricked me, they tried and as difficult as it was, I got out of it:)
Oh and Aunt Leanne, haha, how about I just pretend I'm inIreland and I'll keep writing in my blog when I get back...haha, whattaya say.?! :) Well, do know I now have the travel bug, and I'll be keeping this blog set up for quite some time, so when I do travel next, you'll be the first one to know!!
Haha, love you all!
Saturday, August 4, 2007
Globetrotter Hostel...
Hey guys! Sorry it's been awhile. I've had a busy few days and today's been my first chance to post a blog. My Literature final, despite my uneasiness before, actually went real smoothly. This past weekend was "Raceweek" in Galway. It's the famous "Galway HorseRaces" that started on July 30th and go through today actually. Thursday was "Ladies Day" and everyone in the town was all decked out in their fancy dresses and big hats, and the guys were all spiffy in their suits, it was pretty neat. Friday was a pretty chill day during the day, but I had to make sure I left enough time to pack. I was totally freaking out that I wasn't gonna fit everything, but somehow it all worked itself out. Friday night the program director held a banquet for us at the Forster Hotel and we had one amazing final dinner, it was awesome. Unfortunately it was raining last night so we couldn't do all the walking around we wanted to do on our last night, but it's okay. I woke up early this morning, finished some last minute packing and headed over to Colleen's with Amee for another breakfast. BTW...Mom and Dad it was hell carrying my probably insanely heavy bags!! I really hope it doesn't cost too much! In retrospect, I guess I must have looked funny, having the most difficult time out of all the girls trying to get my luggage in and out of shuttles and buses!
The morning started out great...but it was quite long...we started off carrying all of our many bags to reception and called a van taxi to take us to the bus stop, unfortunately we couldn't fit all of ourselves as well as our luggages in the taxi, so we had to take 2 trips, which is fine. Then we were about 10 minutes late for missing our bus, so we had to chill for about 45minutes waitin for the next, which is fine too....then, there was a real meanie on the bus when asking for our money to buy our tickets, which I got over, but kinda annoyed me. Then as I was uncomfortably trying to sleep all of us girls got rudely awaken by the mean bus driver once we got into Dublin from Galway, which was a 4 hour bus drive and a REALLY COOL bus....btw, sarcase at it's best:)....to hop of the bus and onto a new one for some unknown reason. Now I'm pissed. There were 5girls and probably 10 bags of luggage, hence, not a quick hop off and hop back on manuever. Not only had no idea that they were gonna switch us midway, our bus driver was late so along with the "no help" from the first bus driver, the second bus driver was especially frusturated with us girls cause first off we had SO much luggage and secondly miscommunication between bus drivers means, laugh and be rude to the cute American girls who have no idea where the are goin. Oh and a little side note, both of my bags were so heavy, that my taxi driver asked if I had a body in each bag...ha ha....Then he dropped us off at a random corner and we had to wave down a taxi, that Amee and I did perfectly, but the other 3 girls got mad because only Amee and I could fit, and i guess they had no idea how to wave down their own taxi, so Amee and I had to do it....Amee and I booked a hostel for 3 people, turns out a fourth wanted to try and get in without letting the hostel know ,which made me, the credit card holder look like and idiot...anyway it worked out and we're stayin at a really neat Hostel, called the Globetrotter. In a little while us girls are gonna go get some dindin, because we haven't eaten since breakfast and it's now....630pm....hence, i'm grumpy. There's actually about 10-15 people from the group who are in Dublin tonight, so we're all gonna get together....last night, there were a couple of sad goodbye's but all in all it was good.
This post, despite the rushed kinda crappy day is meant to make you all laugh, because I'm now out a point where I'm done venting and, like noted earlier, in retrospect, it's pretty frickin funny...haha
Mom and Dad, thanks for helpin me out....:) I really miss you guys today. Had a mini breakdown on the bus, not a bad one, but like I've told you Mom, I think about Jimmer and Miah more than I ever have over here and sometimes it's tough not havin the fam around. All I know is that I'm super stoked to get home and see you all and also...come baring gifts....:)
I hope you all had a less frantic and more relaxed Saturday then myself, hahahaha:)
God bless you, I Love You!
The morning started out great...but it was quite long...we started off carrying all of our many bags to reception and called a van taxi to take us to the bus stop, unfortunately we couldn't fit all of ourselves as well as our luggages in the taxi, so we had to take 2 trips, which is fine. Then we were about 10 minutes late for missing our bus, so we had to chill for about 45minutes waitin for the next, which is fine too....then, there was a real meanie on the bus when asking for our money to buy our tickets, which I got over, but kinda annoyed me. Then as I was uncomfortably trying to sleep all of us girls got rudely awaken by the mean bus driver once we got into Dublin from Galway, which was a 4 hour bus drive and a REALLY COOL bus....btw, sarcase at it's best:)....to hop of the bus and onto a new one for some unknown reason. Now I'm pissed. There were 5girls and probably 10 bags of luggage, hence, not a quick hop off and hop back on manuever. Not only had no idea that they were gonna switch us midway, our bus driver was late so along with the "no help" from the first bus driver, the second bus driver was especially frusturated with us girls cause first off we had SO much luggage and secondly miscommunication between bus drivers means, laugh and be rude to the cute American girls who have no idea where the are goin. Oh and a little side note, both of my bags were so heavy, that my taxi driver asked if I had a body in each bag...ha ha....Then he dropped us off at a random corner and we had to wave down a taxi, that Amee and I did perfectly, but the other 3 girls got mad because only Amee and I could fit, and i guess they had no idea how to wave down their own taxi, so Amee and I had to do it....Amee and I booked a hostel for 3 people, turns out a fourth wanted to try and get in without letting the hostel know ,which made me, the credit card holder look like and idiot...anyway it worked out and we're stayin at a really neat Hostel, called the Globetrotter. In a little while us girls are gonna go get some dindin, because we haven't eaten since breakfast and it's now....630pm....hence, i'm grumpy. There's actually about 10-15 people from the group who are in Dublin tonight, so we're all gonna get together....last night, there were a couple of sad goodbye's but all in all it was good.
This post, despite the rushed kinda crappy day is meant to make you all laugh, because I'm now out a point where I'm done venting and, like noted earlier, in retrospect, it's pretty frickin funny...haha
Mom and Dad, thanks for helpin me out....:) I really miss you guys today. Had a mini breakdown on the bus, not a bad one, but like I've told you Mom, I think about Jimmer and Miah more than I ever have over here and sometimes it's tough not havin the fam around. All I know is that I'm super stoked to get home and see you all and also...come baring gifts....:)
I hope you all had a less frantic and more relaxed Saturday then myself, hahahaha:)
God bless you, I Love You!
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Fourth Day in a Row...
Yes, a fourth day of sunshine! Woke up this morning and it was raining on my way to class, figured all we would get were a couple days of sun which was fine, but it's cleared up and beautiful again! I just put a load in the laundry and I'm gettin ready to take a nap:) I can't remember if I told you guys or not, but the Gaelic oral couldn't have gone better! Now I have one more thing to worry about which is my Literature final manana...it's actually gonna be pretty difficult so I'm workin on gettin some studyin after my nap.
I'm so anxious to get home. I know it's gonna be so tough to leave and get back into the routine of things back home, but I miss you all so much, I can't wait! I'm excited because the program director set up a banquet at the end of the week for a last get to together with all of us, really looking forward to that, should be fun. Myself, Amee, Caitlin and Colleen are gettin up early on Saturday and taking a bus back to Dublin to spend a few days there. I'll letcha know how the trip is...nothing better then sittin on a big charter bus for 4 hours! haha.
Okay, my nap is slowly callin my name...But, a Happy Birthday shout out to the Aimster!! I hope you are havin a great day Amy, can't wait to see you too!!!
Slan!
I'm so anxious to get home. I know it's gonna be so tough to leave and get back into the routine of things back home, but I miss you all so much, I can't wait! I'm excited because the program director set up a banquet at the end of the week for a last get to together with all of us, really looking forward to that, should be fun. Myself, Amee, Caitlin and Colleen are gettin up early on Saturday and taking a bus back to Dublin to spend a few days there. I'll letcha know how the trip is...nothing better then sittin on a big charter bus for 4 hours! haha.
Okay, my nap is slowly callin my name...But, a Happy Birthday shout out to the Aimster!! I hope you are havin a great day Amy, can't wait to see you too!!!
Slan!
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Salt Hill and now, the 3rd Prettiest Day of the trip...
So It's about 945am on Tuesday and the sun is shining beautifully. Corny, I know but it's about dang time Ireland started havin some good weather damn it:) Sunday afternoon, it's was beautiful, sunny on and off because of clouds, but still beautiful. Issac knocked on mine and Amee's door and asked if we wanted to go to Salt Hill, the nearest beach. Amee and I had loads of homework to do but we still took him up on his offer. Her and I locked ourselves in our room and worked till about 3pm then myself, Issac and Amee took the shuttle into town and then the bus town to the beach. The tid came up on us pretty quick, but I still got to put my toes in the sand for about an hour, it was great. Afterwards I had the best softserved icecream of my life!! Then we walked into town and took some amazing pictures of our little town on a nice day. We stopped by the seafood place and all decided to go have some dinner, pretty good, but i do miss my seafood from back home:( We also stopped by a record store and talked to the guy who owned the place, he was really cool.
Monday was even more clear and beautiful. Unfortunately I had another bad nightmare in the morning, but the day was so amazing I couldn't let it bother me that much. Amee and I got up and both finished our papers that were due at 12. She went running and then I went running, it was so beautiful...I needed a "by my lonesome" run:) We hopped in the shower and her and I took the shuttle in to town to finish some shoppin for you peeps and we decided to get some pizza at this restaurant that we really wanted to go to. It was so hot! We got to sit out on the patio and believe it or not, we got a little sun! We actually ran into a local friend of ours, Darragh, who saw us on the street...it was so cool to run into someone, haha, he came up and gave us the double kiss thing, one on each cheek, haha, i know, totally Euro right? haha Anyway he works at the "Front Door Pub" and told us to come in for a "pint" after lunch. We came in afterwards and got into a really good conversation with the older bartender who worked there. for the most part the people here a friendly, we've ran into a lot of hostility as Americans, so when you do have a good convo with one of the locals, it totally sticks. Anyway, after that I came back and study some Gaelic with a few of the girls because we have an oral today;(
I'm actually on my way over to Caitlin and Colleen's to make breakfast and study Gaelic, wish me luck!!!
It's another beautiful day, and I'm so happy. I didn't have a nightmare this morning, but when I finished reading this morning for my Lit class, I put my Jimmy bookmark in my book and remembered I had ANOTHER dream about Jimmy. It was a good one. He was holding my hand and smilin the whole time, it was good. I'll tell ya about it more soon.
I'm thinkin of you today Grandpa! Happy Birthday! I hope you're having an absolutely wonderful day, wish I could be there to give ya a hug, soon tho! Have a good day everyone!
Love ya!
Monday was even more clear and beautiful. Unfortunately I had another bad nightmare in the morning, but the day was so amazing I couldn't let it bother me that much. Amee and I got up and both finished our papers that were due at 12. She went running and then I went running, it was so beautiful...I needed a "by my lonesome" run:) We hopped in the shower and her and I took the shuttle in to town to finish some shoppin for you peeps and we decided to get some pizza at this restaurant that we really wanted to go to. It was so hot! We got to sit out on the patio and believe it or not, we got a little sun! We actually ran into a local friend of ours, Darragh, who saw us on the street...it was so cool to run into someone, haha, he came up and gave us the double kiss thing, one on each cheek, haha, i know, totally Euro right? haha Anyway he works at the "Front Door Pub" and told us to come in for a "pint" after lunch. We came in afterwards and got into a really good conversation with the older bartender who worked there. for the most part the people here a friendly, we've ran into a lot of hostility as Americans, so when you do have a good convo with one of the locals, it totally sticks. Anyway, after that I came back and study some Gaelic with a few of the girls because we have an oral today;(
I'm actually on my way over to Caitlin and Colleen's to make breakfast and study Gaelic, wish me luck!!!
It's another beautiful day, and I'm so happy. I didn't have a nightmare this morning, but when I finished reading this morning for my Lit class, I put my Jimmy bookmark in my book and remembered I had ANOTHER dream about Jimmy. It was a good one. He was holding my hand and smilin the whole time, it was good. I'll tell ya about it more soon.
I'm thinkin of you today Grandpa! Happy Birthday! I hope you're having an absolutely wonderful day, wish I could be there to give ya a hug, soon tho! Have a good day everyone!
Love ya!
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Another stupid bad nightmare...
I don't know what it is, maybe because I'm in the magical land of fairies and leprachauns, but I keep having bad nightmares. The other night I woke up screaming, not cool right? This morning I woke up at 8am and regretfully fell back alseep having bad nightmares for like 2 hours straight then waking up at 10am. I find that if I fall back asleep, thats when I usually have the bad dreams, so from now on once I get up I will stay up!
Anyway, how's everyone doin this Saturday? It's inly 6:06am, so I'm guessin most of you are asleep. I'm startin to get real anxious about gettin home. I keep lookn at that photo album that you sent with me Jenn. You don't even know how much I appreciate that. Not only do I show everyone possible all the pictures you have in there, but I myself look at it at least on a daily basis. That picture of you an I lying on mom's bed is my favorite! miss you so much!
I went for another run today, by myself. It was a good one, felt like I ran harder than I have been, so the workout was quite a release. Just before I got back to my room, James Blunt, "So Long Jimmy" started playin. I felt as though I was about to get upset during my room for some reason, but then as I was looking down toward my feet as I was running, I totally felt Jimbo's own two feet runnin right beside me, so from then i just looked up at smiled. When I got back to my room, especially with that specific song playing I got real upset. For the most part I try and think positive even with tears. Today, it was a good cry but man do I miss him. I kept thinkin about his hands and those freckles. I miss 'em. Miss the little things, ya know? Anyway, everytime I go for a run or I'm by myself, I seem to always get into deep thought mode:) lol, and I had a little moment today that I wanted to share with you guys. I hope that you all have a wonderful Saturday Night and send some prayers to help me with my homework, I'm having writer's block!
Love you guys.
Anyway, how's everyone doin this Saturday? It's inly 6:06am, so I'm guessin most of you are asleep. I'm startin to get real anxious about gettin home. I keep lookn at that photo album that you sent with me Jenn. You don't even know how much I appreciate that. Not only do I show everyone possible all the pictures you have in there, but I myself look at it at least on a daily basis. That picture of you an I lying on mom's bed is my favorite! miss you so much!
I went for another run today, by myself. It was a good one, felt like I ran harder than I have been, so the workout was quite a release. Just before I got back to my room, James Blunt, "So Long Jimmy" started playin. I felt as though I was about to get upset during my room for some reason, but then as I was looking down toward my feet as I was running, I totally felt Jimbo's own two feet runnin right beside me, so from then i just looked up at smiled. When I got back to my room, especially with that specific song playing I got real upset. For the most part I try and think positive even with tears. Today, it was a good cry but man do I miss him. I kept thinkin about his hands and those freckles. I miss 'em. Miss the little things, ya know? Anyway, everytime I go for a run or I'm by myself, I seem to always get into deep thought mode:) lol, and I had a little moment today that I wanted to share with you guys. I hope that you all have a wonderful Saturday Night and send some prayers to help me with my homework, I'm having writer's block!
Love you guys.
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