Sat and Sunday

Oh yeah, and to finish Friday off: I feel like we talk about food a lot here. So much in fact that Mandy, Chelsea and I decided to do a girls pig out night. We bought two heat up in the oven pizzas and ice cream, snickers and peanut butter. Let's just say the pizzas were eh but the ice cream combo was divine! We tried to watch Get Smart online but the link wouldn't work. We wound up watching HP5 instead, critiquing it the whole way and enjoying it. (Can't wait for Platform 9 3/4 haha!).

Saturday I met up with Mandy and Chelsea and Courtney at the Farmer's Market. The falafel was amazing! The other foods there look great too, can't wait to give them all a try! I continue my search for dried beans, no luck. Found lentils and raisins though. I'm too poor to afford the other dried fruit but raisins are something. I stayed in instead of going out with Irene in order to do hw, didn't get much done. But Mandy and I did figure out plane stuff and I got to talk to Mom and Dad for the first time in like 2 weeks and Kayla a bit too!

Sunday, hiked the Maamturks. Did the short walk again. This time there were more people and so it was even more fun! Completely different terrain. This was more marshy. I found some of those "you don't know how deep it is" pits on the way down. My foot fell past ankle into water/mud, yeah gross. I feel like that, plus a good 5 foot slide on the descent was my initiation into the club, that and the bruise I've got to show for it.

It was a horribly windy day. I'm saying it took us twice as long to do anything because at some points you just had to stop and fight to keep from falling whichever way the wind was pushing. Stanley didn't come out much. Nor did the camera, sadly. The view however was amazing! We were on one mountain range and past the lake you could see another, the 12 Bens. It was breathtaking (literally with the wind and exercise too!).

I felt like I was in LOTR again. Especially as we reached the top ridge and walked across it to get to the peak. Coming down is always the hardest part, even if you take out the sink pits and the fall. Don't worry it wasn't a bad fall, just kind of scary at the moment. I felt quite proud for being able to make my way back over to the group though I must say and I wasn't the only one slipping and sliding.

We were exhausted by the end of it! At the pub I got myself a good king sized Twix. I loved the Pub scene. Tommy, an Irish hiker, educated us on how chocolate here is better than at home. I've yet to buy chocolate here, other than the Twix and I couldn't tell a difference. Cadburry's only does milk chocolate and I'm a dark kind of girl. But I'll give some of those other chocolates a try later on (I'm almost out of mine!). Tommy was great fun, as were the others. I think this club was one of the best investments I've made so far!

Monday- school, bleh. Plus side, got the news Rachel is coming, sorry, I'm still so excited about that! Oh, and I definitely feel better about having at least one "friend" in my MON and Tues classes lol.