Ireland

This is going to be a short but sweet blog post because I am seriously ready to fall asleep (at 7:15PM!). At 5:00 yesterday afternoon (east coast time), I indulged in a burrito from Chipotle. I figured that would be my dinner before heading to the airport, and hopefully I could ignore the food on the plane and try to get some sleep. If you know me, you know I’m generally in the “early to bed, early to rise” category. So I figured by 9:30 or 10:00, I’d be dozing in my seat. Nope. The food cart came rolling by around 10:30 and I was ready to eat! Turns out, I could have easily passed on the vegetarian pasta and Pepperidge Farm cookies, but once I had it, it would have been rude not to eat it, right? Sleep came in the form of a 2 hour or so nap after “dinner”.

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Vacation is finally here! In a few hours, I’ll be hopping on a plane to Dublin, Ireland to add another stamp to my passport. Ireland has always been on my bucket list, and I knew it would require longer than our week-long school year vacations. In my initial planning, I had expected the trip to be about 10 days, but as I kept researching areas I wanted to visit, I ended up settling on 14 days. After spending two days in Dublin to rest and sightsee, I will be heading to Kilkenny, Kinsale, Killarney, Dingle, Doolin, and Galway before returning to Boston on July 15th. I can’t say that I am looking forward to any area more than another, but I have visions of Killarney National Park and the southwest coast as being my favorites. Being a music lover, I have high hopes of enjoying evenings in the local pub listening to “trad” sessions and mingling with the locals.