K and I flew to DFW, spend a few hours living our best lives in the admirals club thanks to Kasey’s perks. Carly arrived just in time for us to hop on a 8.5hr flight to London. I sat next to an adorable young couple from Utah with a lot of questions about being a member of the Church. This particular international flight was
We hustled through customs in London and got right onto our flight to Cork, Ireland.
Our cottage in Kenmere was adorable!
We arrived in the morning, and stayed up all day. My superpower is that I somehow never get jet lag (yet!). I think I’ve operated on zero sleep for so many years that I just go on like normal. Anyway, we had a great day exploring cute shops and markets in Cork and Kenmare and had a character “girl dinner” in our cottage. The next day we drove the Ring of Kerry, hiked the Kerry cliffs, ate meals in Irish pubs and found live traditional Irish music at night. It was all so incredible!
Day 1: beef stew with a scoop of mashed potatoes in it! “Toasties” = grilled cheese with pickles and ruffles chips in them. Vegetable soup and brown bread with butter are the best comfort foods ever. We are determined to replicate these recipes at home. Driving an automatic car on the left side of the road has been a crazy adventure with the narrow and steep one way roads all over (with blind corners!).
Stone walls and buildings and walkways and churches and fences everywhere. So much stone! I love it! Sheep everywhere! I want to take them home with me! The woolery mill at Blarney castle was really cool to see the process of yarn making start to finish. The Aran knits and cashmere are incredible but so expensive! I do regret not buying a sweater but there just wasn’t one that screamed out to me enough to justify the cost. And on our walk to Aldi we found a rainbow. The wild mustard yellow flowers and mossy color way in Ireland is my dreamy color palette. I could started at these landscapes all day and never grow tired of them. Add in the moody dark overcast sky and dark shake rocks give me a room full of these colors! I loved it. I also was obsessed with the hydrangeas in every color imaginable from limelight green and baby pink, cobalt blue, and bright purple to maroon red!
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