The Ring of Kerry

Today, Shelby and I went on a tour of the Ring of Kerry which is a route around Country Kerry that circles around the mountains in Kerry. It had some amazing sights and once again I just wanted to fold up everything to stuff in my suitecase and bring back with me.

We also had a very funny bus driver who told us some awesome jokes. Shelby wrote one down and I'm going to steal it from her when I get the chance. There was an older lady on the bus too, who was kind of funny at first and then became increasingly annoying. She commented on everything the driver, John, said, even if it wasn't the correct response to what he was talking about (a lot of "wow"s). She also had a tendency to ask pointless questions. When our driver was talking about a Irish speaking community we were passing through and how everyone in Ireland has to learn Irish in school she said, "Bus driver, do you speak Latin?" He was very good about it, but at the end of the day, after he dropped her off, the driver said, "Free at last, free at last!" (I think that was the biggest laugh he got from the tourists too ;P ).

Though it was a good day, and I had another one of those "I never want to leave Ireland" moments, the Ring of Kerry was no where near as beautiful at the Cliffs of Moher tour, and I'm getting tired of paying such high prices for everything. I bought a fish dinner again on the tour for 13eu this time. Last time, for 15eu it was totally worth it: the best fish I've ever had. This time it was just bad. Shelby didn't like her salman either. I should have told the driver that he should find another place for lunch for future tours. Oh well.

Also! I'm terrified my package isn't going to make it home. I've been tracking it online and it made it to the US, and for the last couple days it's status has been something like "on route to destination." Today the status changed to "return to sender" !!!!! There is no sender because I didn't have an address in Ireland! And I have no idea why there would be a problem. I wrote my home address on the package three times in three different places. One of them should be legible. I'm so worried about it!

Back onto Limerick tomorrow. Our good ol' home base. We're going to meet up with two girls we met at the university, and then head to Shannon so we can be right by the airport for Tuesday morning. Home is so close I can almost feel the heat and humidity from here.