city mouse day 4 (monday) a.k.a "A 2 Rainbow Holiday"

ok, today was pretty much a top-notch awesome day. we started out having breakfast at our b&b on the farm (which by the way i didn;t get off to a good start with the lady who ran it because apparently we were supposed to arrive by 6 sharp, although she never told me that there was any specific arrival time, and because there is nothing resembling a street sign in the whole of ireland we did, indeed get lost and we didn;t find it until 9:30. sooo sorry miss joan quinn. i didn;t mean to ruin you life by being 3 .5 hours late. anyways...) it was raining this morning and i have photos of country mouse trying to jump out the window. actually i have a video of it. hmmm...i smell a YouTube. then we drove south to bunratty and went to a winery. had some delicious Mead--honeywine- and then headed back into the town of ennis to check it out. then the sun came out and so did country mouses sunny disposition so we headed out to the atlantic coast to the cliffs of mohr (pronounced 'moore'). on the way we stopped in a little village at a grocery store and got stuff for a picnic. the cliffs were incredible. you hike up to the viewing area. just off to the side of the tourism center was a path leading around the top edge of the cliffs and a rather large sign that said RESTRICTED AREA. of course we went on it. you could walk along these narrow paths along the edge of the cliff which was about 640 ft. above the ocean. completely terrifying and absolutely amazing. it was really windy but we found a little grassy spot off the path and had our picnic. yes folks, country and i had lunch today upon a cliff overlooking the atlantic ocean...what did you do for lunch today? we watched a storm come in off the sea, then we climbed another cliff up to a castle. stunning. as soon as the weather broke there was a beautiful rainbow. (the second of our trip! we saw one on us30 on the way to chicago.) after that we took the coast route along the ocean, stopping along the way if we saw something cool to take pictures of, i.e. a graveyard, rocky cliffs, beaches, sheep, horses.... we arrived this evening in galway, a college town and we are about to hit a pub that was recommended by our very very kind b&b owner, bernard. (i'd like to give a shout out to bernard who drove into town tonight to pick us up when we couldn't find where the heck he was located. again, ireland has something against roadsigns and street signs...) today was a glorious adventure!
Praise God for his beautiful work, city mouse

p.s. things i've learned on this trip:

1. I LOVE DRIVING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROAD!!!! and i pretty much rock at it.
2. i love roundabouts. i wish we had them more in the US.
3. i'm pretty sure country mouse has narcolepsy. the girl can fall asleep anywhere...in a pub..in a shop...in the car passing the most beautiful scenery ever...she could probably fall asleep standing on one leg while getting a root canal.