Ireland - Day Five

Limerick was a bust! We expected a quaint shopping trip and instead we found the 4th largest city in Ireland. Weird huh? It even had a Claires, the junky jewelry boutique in the states.   We left Limerick and drove through Shannon. We found the airport and morgue, but ironically enough no Hertz. Since we're flying out of Shannon this served as a trial run for Saturday. We also think finding the morgue is helpful because it is a more appropriate resting I mean parking place for Piecea than Hertz.

We drove back to our house, cooked an amazing dinner and watched another chick flick. Before we went to bed we watched the "Sweet Mother" video about 10 times and laughed harder each time. I have a correction to make, I screamed "My Sweet Mother!" Not just sweet mother. So there you have it mama, on my death bed I talked about you and I have video to prove it.

Ok, so back to business. The girls next door had their knickers in a knot and mooed ALL night long. Cheryle and I woke up first and decided to see what all the fuss was about. We walked next door and there were several cows at the stone fence. We realized that the moms and the calves had been separated and the babies were NOT happy about it.

When Amanda woke up, she and Cheryle went back out to see them again. They got to meet the farmer who had a very heavy Irish accent. He asked if the cows kept us up last night and Amanda said that she thought there was one in bed with her!! He asked if we were staying all week, Cheryle said that we were and he immediately let the mothers out. As soon as he did, the babies settled right down and we haven't heard a peep or mooo out of them.

It just started raining. It's so weird because it was just beautiful two minutes ago. Since the sun is shining, I'm hoping for a rainbow!

Today we're going to go to Dungaire Castle which is about five minutes from the house. Then we're doing to drive to Gort and go to Kilmacduagh which is monastery dating back to the 900s. It has a preserved round tower that the monks used to hide in when the Vikings raided. 

PS...just caught the most beautiful full rainbow!! I've never seen one from end to end! We got pictures of it  and it was unbelievable!!