Monday in Ireland

Aaah! We're back on the Emerald Isle! It's good to be home :) Our bags didn't arrive with us however but they are on their way to us right now from the airport. So, although we spent two days without our clothes, Christmas gifts and some of my bridal party attire, we are now €120 richer and everything has returned (hopefully undamaged!)
Yesterday we went shopping in Bandon and we met up with some of my friends in O'Brien's cafe. We got to see Anne Marie and meet her boyfriend Colm, we met up with Gillian and Rachel and Gillian's new hubby. All the boys stationed themselves at one end of the table while we girls parked at the other end and had two separate conversations :P Our seats were very well placed on the outside of the cafe facing the main thoroughfare of Bandon shopping centre. This gave Andrew a taste of small-town Irish life because every few minutes we'd see someone we knew and they'd come over to say hello and the men would need to be introduced to these people over and over. Aaah I miss home...I think I'd like to do that again today :)
Tonight I am going to my first hen party ever! It just happens to be my own hen party too-interesting I've only ever been to kitchen parties. I think the first hen party I was ever invited to was Gillian's hen party but I couldn't make that one because I was already in LA. Thankfully my maid of honour has been to many hen parties and so is probably an expert at organising one! Will hopefully have some photos to post soon!

Lobster in My Hair

Today was a day of firsts. Well two major firsts-any other firsts are not really worth mentioning :)

First First:

I went curling for the first time :) This morning Andrew and I got out early to watch his dad curl. When I say curl I mean the stone curling kind, not the hair curling kind. It was a lot of fun to watch Mr. Fung play. He's really good! He did one shot and it got right into the middle of the blue circle! His team mates were really nice to meet as well and most of them were Irish-which of course is a huge asset! Then one of the very nice Irish gentlemen brought us down to the curling rink and let us have a go. He gave us a few pointers and we tried our best-it was fun :)

Second First:

Then tonight, we had lobster. Not just one lobster, but five lobsters, that is, a whole lobster each! It was very very nice. I had to get a few tips from Amy and Andrew on how to pull it apart etc But they're experts and they trained me well...you'd almost think they used to work for a restaurant at some point!

Having lots of fun! Loving the snow and looking forward to a white white Christmas!

Heading Home

So my apartment hasn't flooded-just yet...hopefully it will stay that way over Christmas.

Andrew and I are hoping to fly to Ottawa at 7am tomorrow morning for a week. We'll be heading to Ireland then on December 26th. Hopefully there will be no delays in Chicago tomorrow or leaving Ottawa and Washington D.C. next Saturday. Can't wait for our Christmas break!

We'll do some last minute Christmas shopping and pack our bags tonight. Roll on the end of the school day! Will hopefully have some nice photos to upload after the holidays.

Different Things

So it was raining today. I have walked around my room trying to get things up off the floor for fear of another flood (like the one this time last year) I really hope nothing like that happens again. I have visions of poor old Bandon in my head!
This past week my bridesmaid dresses arrived in the post, Andrew and I booked our caterer who is including our wedding cake for free-nice! And we went to Sojourners' Christmas banquet where Andrew fell into Will Varner's arms, which was just crazy :)
I will post some photos as soon as Andrew lets me have his memory card!