 Six
more days and I'm HOME! The thought of it is weird-I don't even
know what I will do once I get there...
Well,
my travels are not over-the days after tomorow I leave for Paris
for a couple of days. I am really excited about this trip-it's going
to be fun!
 Last
weekend three of the girls from the house (and myself) decided to
go do a short three day tour of Ireland-so we did. It was fabulous.
Ireland is sooo beautiful-The western coast was my favorite of all
the places we went-it was so pretty and the weather loved us when
we were there. Aparently the weather doesn't like many people there,
so I am glad!
Because of this fabulous weather I decided the man I am to marry
is from Ireland and I am going to live in the Irish countryside
near the western coast and have lots of Irish babies with Irish
accents. (And I might drink a lot of Irish beer too!)
 On
our tour we visited a bunch of cool places...Old Irish Castles and
monuments. I saw a tomb older than the pyramids! I drank in Irish
pubs with Irish men playing Irish music. I went to the most westernly
point in Europe (pictured). It was once thought that this was the
end of the world...and
then Christopher C. went and ruined it all for them.
 I
went and kissed the Blarney Stone on top of a castle. Legend has
it (and there is a lot of history behind this so try too-so look
it up!) that if you kiss the Blarney stone you get the gift of gab...everyone
knows I don't talk enough, so it's a good thing I kissed it!
I went to an old whiskey distillery where the guide looked cartoonish-she
was really awkward. Afterwards they gave us glasses of whiskey.
I have not ever been much of a glass-of-whickey-kind-of-girl, so
it was hard to take a sip, let alone drink the entire glass. I poured
my glass into someone elses and this continued until there was a
huge glass of whiskey-some poor boy drank the whole thing; I don't
think he felt very well on the ride home.
Speaking of not feeling very well the roads
in Ireland are crap. Beautiful-but crap. As a person who gets motion
sick very easily I get sick on the Hunt road sometimes, but this
was even worse. On the second day I felt so bad they ahd to pull
the bus over so I could 'eject nourishment' from my body. How many
people can say they have puked on the Irish countryside? I can.
 Yesterday
we went to Greenwich and I stood on the Prime Meridian. I have to
admit, when I found out I was going I had to think really hard to
remember what the Prime Meridian was. I remember learning a rap
we had to present in front of the class on longitude and lattitude
in elementary school-it was embarrassing then, and what is worse
is I remember it....Anyway, I stood in both the west and the east
hemispheres-I'm SO COOL!
 As
the last week with my housemates we have gone and taken a million
group photos. We all ate at a French resturaunt and had a grand
ol' time telling stories of the ridiculous stuff we did in Europe.
Although I had fun in London, I am glad it is over and I am coming
home. It is not bitter sweet yet-it might be later, but not at the
moment. Well, I guess I am off to pack for Paris-I will be home
in the Texas Hill Country in juct a matter of days, which is exciting
and I am looking forward to it! See you all then!
Cheers. |
