Weekend in Tipperary

Weekend update:

We drove down to Tipperary via two very nice gentlemen we've become friends with who live down there. Co. Tipperary is in South-Central Ireland. We took a ton of back roads and drove through Limerick and other popular cities. It was nice to see Ireland in something other than a bus. We got to Cashel (the main city) and got our stuff settled in the house we were staying at. We went and had dinner at some resturant and then they boys drove us to the pitch for the Hurling match. They didnt come with us because they had their own hurling game, so it was just us two American girls!

The game was awesome. I'm definatly going to follow this sport when i get home. Its so easy to get into and the crowd was crazy! It was a lot of fun, despite the fact that it was pissing rain the whole time (pissing rain=irish phrase....come to think of it...a TON of Irish phrases use the word piss. I.e...."he's just taking a piss" = "he is just joking with you"....crazy irish people)

After the match the boys came back and picked us up and we went out to some pubs in Cashel. The next morning Johnny drove us to the Cliffs of Mohr and we hung out there for a while. The cliffs were stunning, but not as exciting as i thought. Maybe because we had been to Dun Aunghasa on the Aran Islands already. At least there, the edges were a sharp, 90 degree angle...where as the Cliffs of Mohr rounded off and were covered in grass. Which i suppose is more dangerous. Anyway, we had Icecream (of course....Michelle and i are addicted to it). Then we stopped at the beach and headed back to Ennis (Co. Clare) to catch the bus home.

When we got home, we got ready for the parade in Galway. Right now the biggest arts festival in Ireland is going on right in Galway City. Its awesome! So they had the parade and "fireworks" last night. It was a very short parade (any parade is after sitting through the apple blossom parade though) and it was very..."artsy". No floats or anything. Instead they had wierd art pieces made out of iron bars and tissue paper and wierd people dressed up in crazy costumes. Exctiting, nonetheless. After that, Michelle and i headed home. We were exhausted. And it turnes out the "fireworks" were really just giant sparklers. :)

Today Suibhne took us to the kicking wall in Salthill (city next to the beach). It was about an hour walk but right along the ocean. It reminded me of Ocean City Maryland. The "kicking wall" is supposedly some wall you walk up and kick and it prolongs your life. It was dissapointing. Very strange and not at all what we were expecting. We kicked it anyway and rode the rollarcoaster on the way back. :) I'll post pictures as soon as i load them on my computer. I'm supposed to be studying for the exams we have tomorrow, so im trying to make this short and sweet. :)

Thats it! I'm making a list of all the irish phrases we've learned and un-intentionally started using. You know when you make a new friend you hang out with a lot, and you start to pick up their mannerisims? Thats happened to us, and its funny as all get out.

Two days left.. :(


I dont want to leave......really. I'll probably cry.


I'm trying to load pictures but they are taking forever to upload, so you have to do without them for now!