Cheers!

So now the highlight of my semester is donezo. Ireland has come and gone, that's a 3 hour credit out of the way, and tons upon millions of papers are only ahead. dang. But what I do have to look forward to actually makes school work a little less dreadful, and that is warm weather. Most people probably think I love warm weather in an abnormal way. It's just that I love being outside SO very much and I there's literally nothing better than flip-flops and/or chacos. I get to wear them all the time now, along with t-shirts and dresses to church. Oh man. I'm also way past ready to get back into my tent, so if you want to go camping, let's get up.

Enough about the weather. My 10 days in Ireland were freakin amazing. One night in particular, I went down to the local pub with Dr. Travis and his good friend Collie, who is the typically wonderful irish man that you might imagine in your head, and had a pint and talked about sports. That seems not so cool to most of you but that was just the coolest thing to me. I got to be in a beautiful country while learning about another culture and visiting sports facilities. All in one day I went surfing, climbed the rock wall, conquered a ropes course, and got a Johnny Cash classic dedicated to me by the local pub duo band thanks to my southern accent. Couldn't have asked for a better trip really. They say that when you travel overseas, you start to have an itch to do it even more and see all the wonderful places that you've been missing out on. Whoever "they" is was right. I want my next stop to be Australia I think or maybe Scotland. Or wherever the next World Cup is located so I can attend. This pic is the little surf town we stayed in for the last 4 days. Bundoran is the most beautifully perfect place to live and work and get married to a professional surfer. Guess my mind is made up.