Procrastination is Best!

I am being a terrible blog updater. In the interest of procrastination I've decided to remedy that! Since I last wrote my study abroad group has had an excursion to the Aran Islands. Before this trip the Cliffs of Moher had been my favorite thing in Ireland, but the islands were so much better.

We started off at 9am Saturday morning (much too early for my taste) and we took a bus to the ferry. The bus was absolutely jam packed, we were luck to all get seats. We then road the ferry for 45 minutes to the island and rented bikes once we arrived. In total we probably rode for 3 hours or so, and my butt definitely reminded me of that for the next few days, but I digress. Riding around the island was absolutely gorgeous. Our main goal was a fort (I think it was a fort), so we ditched the bikes and took a short hike up a hill.

When we finally got to the top, it look like this.....

Except it was way better because pictures never do the sights here any justice at all.

We were lucky enough to get perfect weather, there was barely even a breeze, in fact I was able to get right up to the edge and peer 87 metres (that's how they spell it here) down to the Atlantic, sorry Mom. After we got back to Galway Allison and I took a trip to Tesco to stock up on supplies for that evening. A couple girls came over and we all made a fort that looked something like this; 

In light of the days activities, it seemed appropriate. 

Also, today I found out that the keyboards they have here are different, and believe me that is a MAJOR disability. Quotes and "@" are switched, and where the shift key usually lives there is a forward slash instead. Add that to the fact that I have basically no clue how to use Word for PC's and I'm sure you can understand what a dunce my group members probably think I am.

The next time I update will most likely be in a couple weeks after we've had our Dublin trip. 

Until next time!