Finally...A new one!

So, I know that I haven't written for a while, and a few people were asking where my next blog was, so I figured I would do it now, while I'm finally sitting here doing nothing.
I'll start with last weekened.
On saturday, the whole group of us went to see Blarney Castle. We showed up at the bus station COMPLETELY unprepared, but we got it all figured out. It was probably a 25 minute bus ride, not too bad, and then we were there! In the tiny little town of Blarney (when I say tiny, I mean probably smaller than Carnation...). Anyway, it was about a 10 minute walk from the bus stop to get to the grounds and probably another 5 minutes to the actual castle. The castle was REALLY cool, and yes, I did kiss the Blarney Stone, so hopefully now I'll be more eloquent...We'll see.




After seeing the castle and all of us kissing the stone, it started snowing. We went to this cute little cafe for lunch, and the lady working there told us that it would probably be good to go back to Cork before the busses shut down because of the snow. Needless to say, we didn't want to be stuck in that teeny town, so we left.
The next morning, Sunday, there was about an inch of snow. To us, that's really nothing, but the Irish never get snow like that, and have no idea what to do when they do get it, so basically sidewalks just stayed covered with snow, and stores closed.

We finally found a coffee shop just down the street that was open and went there to have a coffee and be warm, then Erin, Corrie, Emily, Kelsea and I went and saw The Road...Most. Depressing. Movie. EVER. It got over and we were all just sitting there, crying. It pretty much ruined the rest of the day for us. Haha. Later that night we all decided to go for a walk in the snow to Eddie Rocket's to get ice cream. Only once we get there, we found out that because of the snow, they couldn't get there deliveries, so no ice cream. Lame.
Monday morning we woke up to sidewalks that were basically ice skating rinks. Like I said, the Irish have no idea what to do with snow. I would say at least they tried, but I'm not really sure that they did. And to make it all better, the main water pipe in town burst because it froze, so we didn't have water for about 3 days. Yayyy. Needless to say, we definitely have water now.
The week was pretty uneventful. Kelsea and I got to try out the student medical center; I had an ear infection and she had a throat infection, but other than that we all just went to our classes and that was about it. This weekend, we all went to Cobh, a small little ocean town, and the final stop for the Titanic. It was pretty cool. We all just kind of wandered around, saw the Titanic memorial, which to our disappointment was just a rock...We went out to eat in this little restaraunt, and that was about it.


Next weekend, I think we're going to Dublin, so that should be pretty fun. I'll take lots of pictures!