Over the Hills with the Swords of a Thousand Men

So last weekend, Nicola took us to her home town of Spiddal for a birthday party.  Her family was so nice.  We partied until, well the party stopped about 9am when her sisters kids came down the stairs.  Nicola's parents, 2 sisters and an uncle, maybe more I am not sure all live on the same land.  They have cows and stone walls.  It was very cliche Ireland and brilliant at the same time.  They also live a stones throw away from the ocean.  I have pictures, I will post them soon.  Apparently, Nicola's parent's could hear the music from Maria's house at 8am.  They live about 2 football fields away.

Nicola has an uncle who I think is in is 60s or 70s has travelled his whole life.  He was telling me about when he was trying to get a permit to travel around with the Pope and sell stupid little nick nacks.  Apparently, you can get thousands of crappy little things from China and sell it for a huge profit to people in different cities where the Pope goes.  Unfortunatley, a permit was €10,000 and he did not have the money plus it's sort of an "in" crowd.  He was also telling me about how he used to do gardening work on the east side of France.

Diego, Maria's husband, who is from Argentina? is a brilliant cook.  The next afternoon he made shepards pie, which was brilliant.  After we ate, we went to catch the bus back to Galway, but the bus never came.  Lucky for us, Nicola's other sister's boyfriend happend to drive by and ask us if we wanted a ride.

Keeley has a new job sewing for a woman.  So now her degree is going to some use.  And the woman pays cash, HAHAHAHA.