I'm getting there. Slowly but surely.

So now it’s fun story time. I always like getting the boring things out of the way first. So these past couple of weeks have actually been quite busy with travelling and seeing sites and just getting around parts of Ireland and London. I actually had a friend from home here for two weeks and I showed him around parts of Ireland and he joined the girls and me on our trip to London. Cork isn’t really a touristy place. Outside of Blarney Castle, there are no major sites to see here. There are a few distilleries and museums in the area but it is mainly just a little city on the river. The first week that Bryan was here I actually had my education and welfare paper to work on so we really didn’t do much since I had to finish that. We did go out to the Cork City Gaol (Jail) which is now a museum where you can do a self- guided tour. It was really neat to go out there and look around and hear about a lot of the history behind Cork. There are wax models all over the jail to help make things seem a bit more lifelike and to be honest it just made it seem a bit more scary. The faces on some of the people were very frightening faces, and in my opinion very unnecessary faces for them to be making. We were handed walkmans to listen to on the self-guided tour, it explained the different parts of the jail and what was going on in different places. I honestly was so surprised when I was handed the walkman. I can’t say I’ve seen or held one of those in a really long time and it came with the realization that I use to use those when I was little. It’s crazy to think of where technology has come from and where it’s at right now. I’m only 19 and it felt like it was so long ago that walkmans and CD players were such a big deal. Now everyone has all kinds of different mp3s, ipods, itouches, and istuff pretty much. It was just really interesting to see that they still used walkmans and cassette tapes to do the tours. So we did the tour and walked around the jail, which from the outside pretty much looks like a castle. Like always, there are all sorts of pictures of that.

Speaking of pictures I actually might as well cover this while I remember. So the way that I’ve been doing things is that I create a folder on my computer that gets uploaded to my blog through a program and it really just makes my life easier. The folders only hold up to 1,000 pictures each so each time I fill one I’ve just been making a new folder that says Ireland and then the number folder that it is. Then today I decided that I was going to scrap that whole thing and separate out all of the pictures that I didn’t take in Ireland and put them in separate albums. So right now I’m redoing about 4 photo albums so a lot of my pictures aren’t up yet. So things will be clearly labeled as to where the pictures are from. All of the Ireland pictures are in the Ireland albums and right now the only other place I’ve been to is London. So the London pictures are in the London albums. So those should all be up by the end of the weekend I hope. I’m on another IFSA trip so I’m writing blog posts and uploading pictures when I find the time to. So for now things will just kind of go up whenever I finish them or have internet access to put them up. I also apologize for the massive amounts of pictures that are up there. I know it’s a lot, trust me I got through all of them before I put them up so that I can get rid of any bad ones or even fix them up. I’m also working on getting videos up on here since I have a few of those as well. It’s actually really late and I have a long day ahead of me tomorrow. This is it for now. I will hopefully cover all of London in the next post (I apologize ahead of time; it’s going to be a long one). After London I’ll do the Cliffs of Moher post and then I’ll cover this weekend and be caught up as far as what’s going on. Next week is St. Patrick’s Day and I’ll be in Dublin for the celebration so that will be the next big thing for me to cover. This list is really more for me than you. I’ll be able to look back at this post and figure out what else I need to write about and it just helps my brain function a little better. So it’s bed time now but I’ll continue to get caught up on things soon.

With Love Always