First Day in Dublin

Upon arriving at Ireland, David and Dez were there to pick us up and take us to Honor's house where breakfast was waiting and then nice comfy beds to lay our heads on to take a much needed nap. We slept for almost 4 hours, we awoke to a lovely snack of french baguettes and turkey to make mini sandwiches. Nice.

We then headed down to the pier so the boys--Ryan, Andy & Ian--could enjoy the beautiful Irish sea.



While waiting for Honor to come and pick us up...we played a good ole fashion game of hacky sack, which by the way, i suck at terribly. I think we were a bit too loud--what a shock--and had people staring at us for a wee bit.

When Honor arrived, instead of having her make 2 trips, we all--6 of us--piled into her new VW Bug; which had Shauna sitting on my lap in the front seat. It was a riot. She was so close, so I kept hugging and nuzzling her. However, the hysterics came in on overload when we came to a stop and a car pulled up next to us. It was a tad uncomfortable and I couldn't look at the man driving his little black jetta. And when we finally opened our eyes--as Shauna had to close hers too--we saw this man trying to tell us something. I'm pretty sure he wasn't happy with us by the way he was looking and pointing. And we were already giggly from the situation we were in, but as we looked at this man pointing and shouting, we started laughing even harder. We laughed so hard, we cried.


(Shauna on my lap BEFORE the hysterics!!)

The evening concluded with dinner--the chipper--and good conversation before we all headed off to a good night's sleep.

Today we head to camp. I'm super excited to see those beautiful Irish Kids faces that i've missed so much.

Ireland 2008

I'm here, i'm here!!!
in the green land of ireland.

After being delayed at DIA for 2 hours....

(Shauna and I at the beginning of a LONG day!)


and then we sprinted, literally, from our flight from Denver to our flight to Dublin, only to sit on the runway for over an hour....




and after being on planes for what seemed liked forever with all the delays and rerouting. We're here now.
Shauna and I have already had one outburst of hysterical laughter. I feel many more headed our way.

I say, Let the adventures begin!!!

Ireland or Bust!!

it's almost time....

5:27am

it's early in the morning.
i'm wide awake. i can't sleep.
in fact, i didn't sleep much at all last night.

today is going to be a very long day!!!!!!

crazy parents!!

today, i have dealt with nothing but, CRAZY parents!!! those around me the most, know that i say that often. however, one in particular, i was pretty sure was going to go all Momma Bates psycho on me if i turned my back on her.



yep. something like that. when i needed to walk out of the room to get more information, i walked backwards while talking to her, just in case.



FYI: no YMCA showers were involved in the above incident!

tired, grouchy and just plain mean!

yep, this has been me the past few weeks. but, i see the light at the end of the tunnel. and it's full of happiness and goodness.
yay!! because i don't like this grumpy stuff. and i'm sure those around me don't like it either.