Galway

Hi all! Sorry it has been a while since I have written! We just got back from Galway which was Beautiful!!!

Wel left on Wednesday and took a four hour bus ride to the city. We checked into our hotel which was nice then got some lunch. We went exploring around the city for the rest of the day and saw the coast. It was a little rainy and windy the first day so it wasn't the best but it was still so cool! I really liked being on the coast! The city was a lot smaller than Cork but it was really fun. We then went to dinner and went our to a pub for a little while. It was an early night though becuase we had to get up the next day (Thursday) at 7am.

The next day we scheduled a bus tour to the Cliffs of Moher and The Burren. We took off at about 9:30 am and the first stop was The Burren. This is an area of Galway with mountains and a very ricky surface. The rocks came from the ocean hundreds of years ago. It is so cool becuase the whole surface of the earth through these parts are just made of huge rocks. We saw a couple of "wedge tombs" which I have pictures of.

We then went on and stopped at a ton of "fairy rings", I guess the people here believe in these rings of trees that were formed a long time ago. They are supposed to be kind of like haunted and if you disturb the trees or stones at all you will have bad luck and probably die, haha! So they are all over Galway but no one disturbs them.. its a little odd and funny!

We then travelled on and saw some other things like castles and cemetarys but the big thing we were going to see were The Cliffs of Moher. These cliffs were HUGE!!! We walked around them for about two hours and took tons of pictures! It was probably the coolest thing i've ever seen! Ireland is applying for them to be in one of the wonders of the world.

After the Cliffs we took the bus back to Galway city. We freshened up and went for some dinner. We ate at a cute little pub, I got a cheesburger again haha. After that we went to a pub that was playing live traditional irish music! It was soo fun. We meet some nice people so that made us feel not so lonely.

We just came back today around noon... the plans for tonight are unsure but we may go out to eat again becuase we don't have much food here.

I miss home a lot but haveing a lot of fun here too!!! Be sure to look at the pics!!------->http://picasaweb.google.com/home or you can click on the picture of me and amanda at the left side of the blog and enter my infor

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