Oh The Places You'll Go

Well we made it to the airport for our flight to Dublin with plenty of time to spare. Thank goodness, because when we put our bags on the scales, they said we were overweight on each bag and the overage would cost us approximately $500! It's a long story, but let's just say after I regained consciousness and (as Harrison said) rebooted, we opened our luggage and began rearranging the weight to lighten our load. When all was said and done, the lady weighing our luggage was the proud owner of a new box of laundry soap and a nice bottle of Italian wine. Chris just kept throwing things away. Additionally, we all put on as many clothes (heavy clothes) as we possibly could! Chris had on at least 3-4 shirts. Harrison was stylish in his t-shirt, sweatshirt, black velvet blazer, trench coat and winter coat. I sported a nice combination of a thermal shirt, turtleneck, thick sweater, my winter coat and another winter coat, topped off with my fluffy scarf (see picture below). Each of us crammed what seemed to be 20 pounds of stuff into our carry-ons. We looked hideous! I'm certain there were some folks who were hesitant to board the plane with us. I haven't laughed so hard in quite some time. As we sat, waiting for our flight, we would just erupt in laughter as we recapped the morning!
Once we landed in Dublin, we rented another car for the five hour drive to Dingle (it's ok to giggle). I'm certain the countryside was spectacular, but I was asleep before we left the rental car parking lot. I did manage to wake up for a late breakfast in this darling little town along the way, but fell right back to sleep when we got in the car. I woke up for the remaining hour of the trip and the views were hard to describe. Green fields with sheep everywhere, some cows and horses, as well. God was certainly working hard in this part of our world!
After checking into our room in Dingle, we walked into town (about 5minutes away) and looked around. We went into a locals pub and sat and talked with the people there for over an hour. What a friendly group. We asked for their input for a good place to eat and they turned us onto a fresh fish shop. When I say fresh, I mean the fish were caught that day, out in the harbor.
Needless to say, we all slept well after our full day of travel and adventure. Good times.

The picture says it all!