Blarney.. Blarney...Blarney...

This morning we went to Blarney and went to the castle! It was an interesting experience. We had to walk up lots of VERY SCARY teeny stairs inside the dark scary castle with lots of people. We were there pretty early so the line wasn't terribly long but we didn't like being stopped in the inside spiral staircase knowing there was no way out, only teeny little windows big enough to shoot arrows out of (Shannon taught me that). Once we were almost to the daylight at the top (I don't know why they put the stupid rock at the VERY TOP) I said, "lets get this kissing over with" and there was this cute older couple from Virginia behind us and she said, "I bet that's the first time you've said that". They were funny and we laughed! Ya so Aunt Colleen said that when she was in Ireland on her honeymoon when she kissed the blarney stone there was a little old man who lowered her down to kiss it. As luck would have it, that same old man was working today!! He was very cute though. I was a little nervous (see if you're shorter you have to lean back and down even farther) but of course after the line I was gonna do it!! He lowered me back and I still couldn't reach and I had to go even lower!!! Then I kissed it and I came back up and I told him, "That wasn't my best kiss ever" and he was like, "Oh come now... is there something you aren't telling us?" It was cute! The photographer was young and strong and cute and he had to sit there and push a button, which made a whole lot of sense to have the 103 year old man be responsible for not dropping people a long way!! Although they have several signs posted about them not taking ANY responsibility for any injury. That made Shannon feel oh so secure! We do wonder what the death rate is! We went to the rock close and there were all these creepy witch things there. The irish are very superstitious! One of the things was the wishing stairs and apparently if you walk up the stairs (which mind yourself because they can be slippery) then you close your eyes and walk back down the stairs backwards your wish will come true. Ya.. that's a very safe good activity! We of course didn't but we did laugh at this crazy lady doing it and her husband rolling his eyes at us! HAHA.. that's funny in all countries! The rock close all together was very Bayou-like! WAY too much nature going on there!

Happy Anniversary Rico and Emperor!! I hope it's grand, they say that word a LOT here!
Hey Aunt Sheri!! Welcome to the blog! I can't wait to hang when I get home.. I'm coming to the lake, prepare my bed in one of the cute little upstairs rooms!

Ok, well it must be getting close to dinner, and then we have to pack you know, then tomorrow is a VERY long pack day. Taxi ride, then 3 hour bus ride, then 3 hour flight, but then we will write from Paris!! Love you all!