A start in Ireland

MONDAY, September 10th

We headed off to Ireland!  It took a little while to get used to my dad driving on the left side of the road, but he has been doing quite a good job!  We drove for almost 3 hours going from Dublin to Galway.

TUESDAY, September 11th

So, during my dad’s driving, I often had to say things like… Curb. CURB! As he squeezed a little too close to the curb or a wall on the left side of the car for on coming cars…  Overall he was doing fine.  That was until the giant tour bus came barreling around the corner on the “you call that TWO LANES!!!!!?????!?!?!?!?” road, significantly in our lane.  We lost the side mirror. ON MY SIDE – AWAY FROM THE BUS.  We returned to the site of the crime to see if we could rescue the pieces and salvage the now unusable car appendage.  My mom managed to find the back covering of the side mirror.  Against my dad’s advice, I took a peek around for the actual mirror – which I found!  I then even managed to snap the mirror back on to the car!!!  I felt very successful and it really helped with the rest of the driving.

It is “Left to live, but not too far left…”

This was the day that we drove from Galway to Killarney through The Burren.  We stopped at a castle and walked along the Cliffs of Moher, which were amazing!!!!  Here are a few pictures!  http://www.flickr.com/photos/76555621@N02/sets/72157631558435710/