ireland-it's good craic

i got into to shannon airport on friday night... well, technically saturday morning, but whatever. gerry was there to pick me and my bags up.

we had a cute room at the hotel near the airport which was perfect because driving on the wrong side of the road that late while tired and not being able to negotiate those kind of changes in my head would have sucked. honestly... i've been having an abnormal amount of trouble with that anyway. for example...

after we packed up the suitcases in the car on saturday, gerry had the front left hand side door open for me... but the right hand side door had been left open (which is closer to where i was standing. he motioned for me to get in and i was like, uh, i'm not driving! he laughed and said i'd better get in on the other side unless i did want to drive. oops. right. that.

we talked about me getting an irish license, but i'm going to have to practice first... a lot.

saturday we stopped by jim, tara and her son, aaron's place for some cribbage and tea. i'm totally going to make cribbage the irish game of the year. gerry and i had bought jaffa cakes and butterscotch cookies when we grabbed some peppermint tea after breakkie in limerick. i'm happy i guessed that jaffa cakes might not be for me, and we got the back-up butterscotch cookies. jaffa cakes are pretty sick if you don't like dark chocolate and especially don't like orange with dark chocolate. i think that tara and i are going to have a continuing rivalry against the boys for cribbage. especially if i can keep getting breakfast in bed. :o) yes, yes... gerry and jim did end up winning the match. but i don't remember having to get out of bed to bring up orange juice, toast, and eggs.

that night, gerry and i went out for dinner in cork, and were going to go see a movie, but were too tired.

yesterday was a lazy day. after breakfast in bed, i enjoyed a nap. we watched some tv with one of gerry's housemates, his cousin, sharon. we saw beauty shop... which had some funny parts. let's leave it at that. then jim, tara and aaron came by and we went for dinner to zack's, in the downtown.

which brings me to today. it's 10.30 and i've spent the last + hour emailing/reading blogs/catching up in the internet world. i've got to shower and take the bus into cork. i'm meeting gerry for lunch. today is also when i start to look for my own place, and work on my resume for finding a job.

i've got some other pics i need to post... so maybe i'll take my camera in with me today and grab a couple pics of cork. if the weather holds. oh, and p.s. it's fricking cold here.