4th of July (A little late!)

Last week flew by! My mom came to visit for a couple of days and it was so much fun! We went shopping ALOT and just hung out. She bought me my birthday present a little early...a sewing machine! Now I have no idea what I am doing yet but I hope to learn and become handy enough to do fun projects (nothing too complicated!).


But the weekend before we celebrated the 4th of July with an old fashioned picnic with some friends, listening to the NC Symphony and watching the fireworks (and sitting in traffic forever but we won't dwell on that part..). Here are some pictures from the 4th of July.

Ireland: Day 2

So Emily, Chrissy, and I had a blast today in Dublin. We all had brunch (that meal after brecks) at Cafe' Harry's in Dun Laoghaire (pronounced Dunleary) and then Emily and I spent some time walking along the pier while Chrissy met a friend at another cafe' for an hour or two. After this we all drove south of Dublin to Powers Court estate and had tea with scones and cream. The estate was actually the castle that Edmund Dantes buys in the modern movie adaptation of the Counte of Monte Christo. After this we took a wonderfully scenic ride back to Dublin and caught a free 3 hour symphony performed by the Dublin Symphony Orchestra with one of Chrissy's friends, Luke. We were a tad up a little late and had to wait for preorder tickets to free up so we missed a performance of Ballet Suite No. 1 by Shostakovich. However, we still got to here Divertimento by Stravinsky, Violin Concerto in D Major and Sleeping Beauty Suite by Tchaikovsky. Afterwards, the four of us got burger's at Eddie Rocket's (just like Johnny Rocket's in the States) and we talked for a while. Emily and I especially enjoying getting to know Luke, and hope to keep chatting with him. Anyhow, this will be the last post for a while because we don't have computer access once we leave Chrissy's tomorrow so we'll most likely journal when we get back. Here are some pics of our day below.