Up Cork!
Aye, Internet, I’ve missed ye. We are back from our 2 week holiday to Ireland and Scotland, and what can I say? Western Ireland is some of the most beautiful country I’ve ever seen. What with the Cliffs, Dun Angeus, rock walls, sheep everywhere, ancient ruins, green green valleys, miles of fuschia hedges, cute towns like Bantry and Dingle, one car sized streets for two way traffic, passion for amateur sports like hurling and gaelic football, delicious soups everywhere, pints o’Guinness, the Sky Road up from lovely Clifden, the Kylemore Abbey, Hore Abbey and the secret Abbey in Cong (directions to Cong? One, two hill) and being able to see and do it all with my family was really a great experience. We didn’t get to see much of Scotland, but the few days in Edinburgh were great. What a cool city! Tim and I are ready to move. Some pictures are up already thanks to Tim who worked hard on them yesterday.
Everywhere we had access to either BBC or Euro version CNN, so we were able to see all the devastation wrough by Katrina. Both the storm and the following relief effort are so horrible and overwhelming. Most places we went Irish people asked us where we were from and if it was close to the gulf states. I read on CNN today that Bush said that the recovery efforts will be as successful as the initial relief efforts. Wow, I hope not. My thoughts are with the victims.
After I posted the last time about music and reminders, I got an email from Amy who mentioned that she associates two TAPES (they were tapes then!) with me from my visit to New Jersey in junior high. I can’t believe I forgot to list them! Birdhouse in Your Soul by the wonderful They Might Be Giants was one of the theme songs of that trip. Though actually whenever I hear the song, I picture her younger brother, Aaron dancing around their kitchen. And the entire TAPE of Erasure’s Wild…we must have listened to that 50,000 times on the trip, including all the car rides (to PA, NYC and to the Jersey Coast) over and over and over. She also mentioned that Too Much Joy reminds her of me. Cereal Killers is still one of my favorite CDs, and it isn’t just becuase I have the guitar player’s bracelet.
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