...a really good song by Lady Gaga, gotta love her! But Katie and I have spent the last 4 hours planning our April travels, and now that we finally have it all figured out, I think that we are both "so happy we could die". Ugh, it was exhausting! But we are going to see some really cool places!!!! I will tell you but you have to listen to what we did the past week first!
On Monday....Katie and Jack left in the morning to go on the Burren/Cliffs of Moher tour (the same one that Katie and I went on last month) and did a neat little overnight thing in Doolin. It sounds like they had tons of fun! But apparently the stores and such do not open until around noon in Doolin, so they were rather bored Tuesday morning. Katie, having gone on the tour before, was slightly targeted and teased by Desmond, the same lovely tour guide we had before! He is a cutie. But Katie, being the amazing friend that she is, inquired about the wildflowers, so Desmond is going to call her if they come out sometime in March or April so we can be sure to go see them!
On Tuesday....Chelsea hosted what we call "Family Dinner" and invited all of our neighbors over for fajitas. NUM! This was also nice because most of the folk that came over for dinner were to leave for London on Wednesday. Later that evening we also played some intense Bananagrams, Katie and I upset the rest of the players because we basically took turns winning. We are awesome English majors, no big deal...
On Wednesday....Katie and I got up early in the morning to go to our classes for the day. English, history and then more English. Jack meet us on campus after our last class and we took him to have some lovely crepes at Zatsuma! Jack liked the crepes so much that he insisted that we go back on Thursday....
On Thursday....We ate more crepes....really that's about all we did.....well, I guess that Katie and Jack went for a walk to the bay....but that's not really that eventful.....really.
Early Friday morning....We said our farewells to Jackie Poo Poo Bear (insert sad face here). However Katie and I decided to spend the evening booking various buses, trains, flights, and hostels around Europe....wanna hear? Okay!
Well.....On the 4th of April we are leaving from Paris via train to go to Marseille. We will be spending 3 days in Marseille from whence we will take a bus to Barcelona (this was particularly interesting to book because the bus site was in French, let's hope we got the right date/time!!!). After our 4 day stay in Barcelona we will be taking a flight to Rome. ROME! Somewhere Katie and I desperately wanted to go but had not planned on....however, after looking at prices in Norway and Scotland, it made sense to spend that money in Rome instead, since our desire to go there was much stronger than that for Oslo and Edinbourgh. So ROME! From Rome we are flying to London where we will spend an eight hour layover to end in Belfast, but it is saving us about 50 euro, so that is certainly worth it to both of us. Finally....we will arrive in Belfast where we will spend a night and then the following morning we will take a day tour to see the lovely Co. Antrim coast and Giant's Causeway, leading us to Derry. From Derry we are catching a bus to take us back to Galway, our home away from home. In case you have not been keeping up with the days...our return to Galway will be on the 14 of April. This will give us about 6 days to say goodbye to the city that we love. And to hopefully see some wildflowers!
On April 20, in the late afternoon, we return to you....tired.....cultured....grown individuals....AND WE CAN'T WAIT. We love it here so much, but after planning all of this we both realize that it will be leading us back home. Which is something we are certainly looking forward to....
In case you haven't noticed....I like ellipses.....
Friday, February 26, 2010
Sunday, February 21, 2010
REUNITED
On Tuesday evening, Camille and I were reunited in our apartment once more. Jack and I waited up watching TV until her and Lizzi arrived around midnight or so. Then we moved next door where we celebrated the first day of Lent with some grilled cheese :)
The following day we took Lizzi and Jack to our history class, where they got to experience our crazy and very stereotypical Irish professor. After that was just a long day of walking around in city centre, trying to figure out the details for our trip to Cork that was taking place early the next morning. As per our usual, our travels started as a struggle; we missed our bus. However stressful that was for Katie, we made it onto the bus that left two hours later with no problems. Our hostel in Cork was great and very close to the city centre. Cork was fine, nothing too special really, unless you had lots of money you wanted to spend at Monsoon! Which, unfortunately, we do not. But we had Kebabs for dinner and they were delectable. Later that night we went down the street to a pub, where Jack got his first Guinness in Ireland and us girls had some Bulmers to go along with the massive amount of crisps (fries) that we ordered at a semi-sketchy place nearby.
Thursday was spent in the lovely town of Blarney, where we toured the castle and grounds. The castle was average, I mean, for a castle, ya know. Although it did have a terrifying series of stairs that you were forced to take in order to get to the top, way too small for any normal sized person to climb, especially when you are carrying a backpack. At the top, we had all decided that we were not going to kiss the stone because really, that thing is so gross. Imagine all of the people that have touched and put their mouth on that. Ick. Confirming our decision was the man in front of us who had an incredibly obnoxious cough. But... as we were about to begin our dangerous descend, Jack had a change of heart, convincing Katie to come along. So we did it. And it was gross, but probably worth it for "making memories" that Jack is so fond of.
The grounds of the castle were gorgeous, lots of trees and soon-to-be flowers. Camille was horribly depressed by the fact that the flowers were in this stage of development, and has committed to traveling back to get them in bloom. In one part of our tour, Camille and Lizzi made their wish on the Wishing Steps by going down and back up a flight of outdoor stairs with their eyes closed and their minds on only that wish. We have a year or so to see how it works out for them. Good luck! :)
We made it back to Galway on Friday night, again, no meat. So we ordered a pizza! And relaxed while watching Zombieland!!!!!! Great movie. Therefore recommended. Lizzi left on Saturday morning, and the rest of the day and Sunday were pretty much spent on the couch, with Camille and Jack playing Sporcle for about seven hours....
Katie and Jack will head out tomorrow for an overnight Cliffs of Moher tour and Camille will enjoy her day of no class. That's all for now, more later... Hopefully ;)
The following day we took Lizzi and Jack to our history class, where they got to experience our crazy and very stereotypical Irish professor. After that was just a long day of walking around in city centre, trying to figure out the details for our trip to Cork that was taking place early the next morning. As per our usual, our travels started as a struggle; we missed our bus. However stressful that was for Katie, we made it onto the bus that left two hours later with no problems. Our hostel in Cork was great and very close to the city centre. Cork was fine, nothing too special really, unless you had lots of money you wanted to spend at Monsoon! Which, unfortunately, we do not. But we had Kebabs for dinner and they were delectable. Later that night we went down the street to a pub, where Jack got his first Guinness in Ireland and us girls had some Bulmers to go along with the massive amount of crisps (fries) that we ordered at a semi-sketchy place nearby.
Thursday was spent in the lovely town of Blarney, where we toured the castle and grounds. The castle was average, I mean, for a castle, ya know. Although it did have a terrifying series of stairs that you were forced to take in order to get to the top, way too small for any normal sized person to climb, especially when you are carrying a backpack. At the top, we had all decided that we were not going to kiss the stone because really, that thing is so gross. Imagine all of the people that have touched and put their mouth on that. Ick. Confirming our decision was the man in front of us who had an incredibly obnoxious cough. But... as we were about to begin our dangerous descend, Jack had a change of heart, convincing Katie to come along. So we did it. And it was gross, but probably worth it for "making memories" that Jack is so fond of.
The grounds of the castle were gorgeous, lots of trees and soon-to-be flowers. Camille was horribly depressed by the fact that the flowers were in this stage of development, and has committed to traveling back to get them in bloom. In one part of our tour, Camille and Lizzi made their wish on the Wishing Steps by going down and back up a flight of outdoor stairs with their eyes closed and their minds on only that wish. We have a year or so to see how it works out for them. Good luck! :)
We made it back to Galway on Friday night, again, no meat. So we ordered a pizza! And relaxed while watching Zombieland!!!!!! Great movie. Therefore recommended. Lizzi left on Saturday morning, and the rest of the day and Sunday were pretty much spent on the couch, with Camille and Jack playing Sporcle for about seven hours....
Katie and Jack will head out tomorrow for an overnight Cliffs of Moher tour and Camille will enjoy her day of no class. That's all for now, more later... Hopefully ;)
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