Last morning in Ireland

March 21^st

This is our last morning in Ireland. Karen makes us an Irish breakfast which consisted of Eggs, toast, rashers (which is bacon and it this is actually what David is talking about when he says bacon. Thank God we found that so he could stop pining away for it...) black and white puddings which is not jello pudding, this is meat sausage with barley, spices and pig blood. (They tasted pretty ok.) And of course black tea, how could you do Ireland and not have black tea...of course how could you do Ireland and not have Guiness? But I digress...

As we are leaving for the airport Karen’s dad says he can take us. We have tons of stuff so we pack the car early, but as it turns out he had left the lights on all night long so the battery was dead. We end up running the car down the street to try and push start it, but it doesn’t want to go. So we run back to Karen’s house, she brings her car over and we pile everything into it and she flies us down the road to the bus stop. Now I am not sure if all Irish drivers are fast and crazy but our bus driver from the airport was driving really fast and in the bike lanes and swerving like nobody’s business. Karen was not a swervy driver, but she was fast, so we knew we were going to get there on time. We end up pulling in just in time, the driver was just about to pull out so she parked right in front of him to make sure he wasn’t going anywhere. We piled our stuff out of the car and said our goodbyes and then we were off on another bus ride. The bus ride itself was beautiful. We saw 2 rainbows, lots of sheep and lambs (My favourite are the lambs....so cute!) The sun has been out most of the day, hanging out right next to dark gray clouds, but today the sun will not be denied. It’s shinning it’s little heart out! Just before we get out it starts hailing. Which reminded me of Chicago around Easter. I remember riding my bike as a kid on Easter and picking up all the hail, bagging it up and putting it in my grandma’s freezer. I was always curious why it hailed every Easter, but I guess it’s just the right conditions for it.

Heathrow airport is pretty nice. Lots of shops and some fancy coffee places. As we were walking we stopped for a caramel coffee drink for David and a mocha one for me. (We kinda got hooked on Frappachinos when we were back in the states...so we needed one more fix before heading out. They were good, but gee whiz...coffees are expensive here! Yes, even more than Starbucks.) We have actually been very good about spending money. We go to the grocery store to get food usually and we cook at people’s houses we stay with, so we have been saving money with not eating out.

In the airport I passed a shop that reminded me of my grandma and I started to cry. My grandma was Irish and loved scarves and capes and this store was something I knew she would have loved.

After that the next stop was a bookstore and I saw that Paulo Cuelo had a couple of books out. The one I picked up was talking about an Irish woman who was looking for her soul mate and meet a man who helps her to open up her heart to love.

It’s very fun to watch people at the airport. Irish, Irish, German, German, Spanish, Spanish, Polish. In America almost everyone is a blend of so many nationalities, but here you can see the pure blood of the origins of many countries.

Our flight was full but the Stewart said when they come back from England it’s going to be even more packed. Easter weekend is coming and there is a HUGE population of Catholics in Ireland.

We are pretty proud of ourselves releasing excess baggage. Everywhere we go we get rid of something to make our journey a little lighter. When we leave Europe we expect our load to be a lot lighter because we will have run out of Isagenix by then. Isagenix has been a Godsend keeping us healthy and keep us from eating crap food along our way. Yaaay for Isagenix!

Tonight is a full moon...you can tell with us because we have been a little moody lately. But seeing the sun is definitely helping.

Next stop England...