See ya later Ireland

So, I'm getting ready to leave on my trip over ten day break.  I figured that I would get one more blog in before because I won't again until next week when I get back. Today we took a day trip over the the Cliffs of Moher also known as the "Cliffs of Insanity."  We left our cottages at 8:30 this morning and actually got to the Cliffs a little before noon.  They are pretty much just on the other side of Galway Bay from us.  The down side of our visit today...it was foggy.  It was difficult to actually make out the cliffs...let alone take any pictures.  There are also railings alongside the cliff so that you don't actually get too close.  Rocks fall from the cliff everyday and people die from falling off every year.  Stupid people will defy the barrier in order to get a cool picture.  Anyway, of what I did see, it was pretty amazing.  I got a few foggy pictures and I hope that one of them turns out decent.  We had the same bus driver that we had last time which was awesome.  He was telling all these random facts about where we were driving through.  Including that the land we were on used to be at the bottom of the ocean floor and that is why it is so rocky.  He also challenged the guys on our trip to sing for us.  He said that in Ireland you are a wimp if you don't sing--even if you can't sing.  Well after a few minutes one of the guys stepped up and sang us a song.  Then two other guys stepped up--not liking being called a wimp I guess.  Anyway, after this everyone on the bus started singing random songs at the same time and you couldn't get us to shut up.  So, be careful what you wish for I guess.  But it was a lot of fun and it made the ride go a little faster.  Also, on the way back we stopped at some random castle and Michael, the driver, told us about it and the history.  He even threw in a few reenactments.  Basically, he is awesome.  Oh, also on the way to the Cliffs we stopped at a Portal Tomb.  There are four kinds of tombs from the Neolithic period in Ireland.  They are Passage (like Newgrange), Portal, Wedge, and Court.  See, I'm actually learning something in archeology.  But yeah, it was cool to see another thing that we talked about in class.  That is what I love about studying here, you actually see most of what we are talking about.  In the States you could never see everything that you learn about in our history.  

Side note*  Today I found a four leaf clover!!  At the Cliffs of Moher there was a patch of clovers growing and I saw a couple people looking through them, looking for the 4 leaf clover.  So I decided I would try it...and it actually happened!  Let's see if I can get it back to the States so that I will always have the Luck of the Irish. :)

That's all for now, I need to go pack...  Ok, imagine this:  7 night trip and only bring a backpack to travel with.  Yeah, this will be interesting.  Wish me luck!  Talk to you in a week.