Greetings from beautiful rainy Ireland (really..is 3 or 4 days of some clear weather on one of my stays too much to ask!:-). We arrived in Ireland on Sunday. We got the car and in a very scary experience drove into dublin to our hotel. Now when I first start driving over here (on the incorrect side of the road and the dang roundabouts) it takes a bit for me to get more (notice the more) comfortable with it (I never get comfortable with it) so driving in a huge city not so fun. We have a GPS system but at times she confused more than helped. I was so tired of hearing turn left..turn left..then when you do the wrong thing "recalculating". She (I am giving the GPS system a female gender as her voice is female) took us down a one way street the wrong way..yeah..and the police happened to be sitting there. Thank goodness the Irish are so nice! They just gave me proper directions (which were very lengthy and not easy to remember or follow) and sent me along the way. I mean really the irish customs were joking with us as soon as we arrived in the country and in the middle of Dublin a taxi driver stopped and gave us directions when we wandering for our hotel with our suitcases. Such a friendly country..especially compared to where we have been recently! O.k. Sunday night we got settled in..at some burgers and went out to meet my friend James. We went to the Temple Bar and another close by bar. Next day we headed down to Cork. I was reminded how much I love Cork. It is really a great city to live. Before getting to our hotel we went and saw the Blarney Stone (Megan and Matt passed on kissing the Blarney Stone - probably because the rumor that the Irish pee on the stone) and then it was into the city. We had dinner at Bully's this little restaurant I often frequented when I stayed there. Then after some resting we went out to a pub (you must make frequent visits to pubs when in Ireland..its a rule). We got up on Tuesday and I drove down to Killarney where we did some shopping and ate lunch at this fast food place Den Joes. It is nothing amazing but I always eat there when I am in Killarney - fries with stuffing and curry.:-) Then we drove around the Dingle..which is beautiful..but we could only see it from the car for the lovely rain. This morning I put Megan and Matthew on a plane back home and now I am trying to figure out what to do with myself. I am thinking of driving to Doolin as it is only an hour away however I am certain as soon as I get there it will start raining with my luck! Either way I will be in Dublin for the evening. So..be praying for me as I drive in Ireland..I surely do need it! Post again soon!