The Adventure Starts...Now: Just Another Day in Paradise

Making new friends

At the top of the monument

"The trampoline experience"

This is what my day consisted of (a couple days ago):

• A delicious bagel from the farmer’s market in Galway
• A bus ride to Clifden for 2 euros
• A walk on Sky Road (beautiful views of green fields and the bay/ocean)
• Finding the Clifden castle (which of course included walking through mud & climbing fences, and meeting people from Holland)
• Encountering and petting horses on the side of the road
• Hearing a donkey’s “hee-haw” which was incredibly loud and the wierdest sound ever probably
• Knocking on someone’s door and the first thing she asks us is if her dog had been following us. I said “No, we were just walking and noticed you have a trampoline and were wondering if we could jump in it?” She said, “Yeah go ahead, as long as you don’t break your necks.” So we jumped and got some sick pics. By the way, this was the most scenic trampoline-jumping experience ever.
• Finding the river/waterfalls and climbing under the bridge where some scenes from the movie “Quiet man” were filmed
• Being in Clifden, the place where the first transatlantic flight landed and the first cellular message was sent
• Climbing to the top of a monument in honor of D’arcy, the founder of Clifden. The view was of the city on one side, the bay/ocean on the other, and fields of green with animals on the other side. On the way to the monument, following the signs as good tourists would, we noticed that the sign was pointing towards a path with 4 horses that were just eating food. The path was very narrow and the horses and their poop took up the whole path. A lady jogged by and we asked her how to get to the monument and she said “Right there”, pointing towards the horses. We were like, “Umm, you mean we walk around that gate and right through those horses?” “Yes.” “Oh, okay thanks.” So, we proceed to pass these horses(I thought they were donkeys at the time) and they start sniffing us and nuzzling their noses into us. Then I got cornered by two horses and a prickly bush and was trying to communicate with the horses that they needed to move so I could get by them but they didn’t seem to understand quite well. Eventually, I made it through and it was just a laughing experience. The sun started to set over the ocean as we left the monument and it made me miss watching the sunsets at Point Loma in San Diego.
• Finding a cute coffee shop in a hotel and the owners still made us coffee even though they were closed at the time. It was literally the best caramel latte I’ve ever had. We talked to one of the owners for about 15 minutes and she told us that the drinks were compliments of them(WONDERFUL hospitality). After we thanked her, she (Fiona) said, “Ya know, it’s nice to be nice. Enjoy your stay here. Tell your friends in America that you met some nice people in Ireland.”
• Running to the bus stop and catching the bus the minute it was about to leave(it already had started pulling out)
• Running, literally, from the bus stop at Eyre Square in Galway back to our apartments just for the heck of it (which saved us 20 minutes of our lives)
• Finding the cutest chill pub and chattin’ with old Irish folk
• Playing a piano at a coffee shop
• Talking with a girl I met from Santa Cruz ‘til late in the night
• Eating potato waffles
All in all, this was an amazing day with good adventures and good company and good weather . I have absolutely no complaints about my life in Ireland right now. I am loving every minute of it. =]