Planes, Trains, and Automobiles Part I

After exams were finally finished, Dόnal, Lorraine, and I traveled to Clare for the half marathon the next day. Lorraine lives in Clare, so we stayed at her house, which was right by the sea and across the way from the Cliffs of Moher.  It was so nice and would have been better if we could have stayed longer, but in the morning we were up early to head to the start of the half marathon.  It was my first one, for those who don't know, and quite tough.  We ran up two mountains; after the first one I told Dόnal, "Thank God that was at the beginning!" and then maybe two miles later he warned me, "I don't want to scare you, but look over there."  There was a second mountain we had to go up! Somehow I survived the second one and the full 13.1 miles.  It was very hard but had wonderful scenery and definitely worth it.

Next it was on to Caaaaaavan for a couple nights where I met everyone's parents. all their mom's are so cute and their fathers are complete babes. I stayed at Lucy's place and herself and Niamh showed me a night out on the town Saturday. It was good, but I was half out of it from the lack of sleep from studying (or attempting) and the half marathon. Sunday was a scorcher (relatively speaking: a scorcher here is anything above 70) so we went to a forest park where there was a beach and lay out for a bit. That evening we went to the Olde Post Inn, where Dόnal works, for a meal.  They pulled out all the stops.  It was amazing there was appetizers, starters, middle course, main course, dessert, tea, coffee & petit fours, and then two rounds of shots on the house! it was so good I got asparagus for starters and celeriac lasagna for mains. I'm getting lazy so i'm not putting up pictures. You can find them on facebook. Then we got our very own taxi to town by the chefs who were on their way home from work. It was great but I was stuffed, yet the night was still young. 

Two pubs and a nightclub later and we were all back at  Dόnal's, where I proceeded to show off my only talent, which is backflips on a trampoline. Also I fed Spud (the dog) a whole loaf of brown bread, and told him he was my best friend, before telling him he was only using me for the food.

Monday unfortunately we had to leave Cavan. Sad face. So we went on a roadtrip back to Dublin. In true waster style, it took us about six hours to leave but we had great fun in the car. 'is it a lake or a pond'. When we eventually got back to Dublin we went for food and I had to say some goodbyes to Mooney. it was terrible but I got a really cool poster signed by all of the class. It was totes emosh.

Off to the beach beach in Barcelona baby.

(co-wrote by  Dόnal  McGoldrick)