Short update time! And I guess I’ll make this one in bullet points since I know Nick likes them that way…

1. Went to the Cliffs of Moher last Thursday. Got lucky and had an absolutely GORGEOUS day… barely any fog at all! I think I got a few good pictures so I’ll put those up on facebook and snapfish (along with all the other pictures I never got around to putting on snapfish)
1. Also stopped at Ailwee Cave… very cool. Saw stalactites and stalagmites, an underground waterfall, a huge cavern that tends to completely flood a few times a year, and a rare bat.
2. Volunteered at the Teddy Bear Hospital on Friday.
1. It’s run by the Med students society on campus and brings in about 1300 children over two days to take their sick teddy bears to the doctor.
2. Its aim is to help make kids less afraid of going to the doctor and, whether it worked or not, it was still a lot of fun!
3. Got yelled at by many little kids for spelling their names wrong… they certainly were not shy about telling you if you were wrong! Ended up having to have on of the Irish students make a cheat sheet with name spellings… like Aoife (pronounced like Eva with an f instead of a v), Oisin (pronounced kinda like ocean), and Georoid pronounced like you would assume they would pronounce Garath since they say th like t…
3. Other news: have plans to go to Belgium at the end of February. Will be spending a weekend in Bruge, eating lots of chocolate and waffles J

That’s about it for now… still working on making some other travel plans, and looking forward to Jess’s visit in March! I’ll keep you updated if I do anything else exciting J