Not quite the Luck o' the Irish

Last weekend we went to Ireland. We took a train and then a ferry into Dublin and it was a very beautiful trip. The next morning, we went on a tour of the Guiness Brewery. It is the largest brewery in the world. After the tour and a few free Guiness beers, we headed out of town. We went across the country to Galway. A very charming little place. Little did we know that it was 1) a bank holiday weekend (big deal in Ireland), 2) there was a huge soccer tournament in Galway, 3) there were no hotel rooms to be had within a 50 mile radius. Super. Kim, Kevin, and I felt quite biblical: there was no room at the inn, any inn. Finally we found the last hotel room in Shannon, a quaint little town in the middle of freakin' nowhere. There were no food places open, so we ate at a place called Supermacs (McD's but grosser), where , we are pretty sure, the whole staff was stoned. Great. The next day we headed out again. This day turned out a little better. We set out for the cliffs of Moher. On the way we found a little surf town, Lahnich. They must really love surfing there, because you could not pay me enough money to get into that cold ass water. But it was fun to watch. Then we trekked up to the Cliffs (picture), where I was pretty sure that I was going to see someone plunge to their demise. There was an area that was clearly marked no tresspassing (first cliff behind us in the picture), but also had a trail. Attractive nuisance or what!! There was no barrier or anything to keep people from falling a good 200 feet into the rocky ocean. I got about 10 steps out there and turned around, not because I was scared (bc I was definately staying far from the edge) but bc other people were obviously not scared. They were so close to the edge, I was about to have a coronary! So I turned back and looked the other direction. Luckily, no one died while I was there and I got the hell out of there. We then got safely back to Dublin and later to London. Phew, home safely and happy to have a weekend of rest!!! Not so fast with that one ;) Check out Halloween posting.