Four days is a good amount of days off. We stayed out til about 3am Friday night and then skyped NZ to see Bean's baby until after 4am. So much of Saturday was spent blobbing. We did manage some shopping (sleeping bag inners and hiking socks) and blobbed outside our house even!
On Sunday we got up in time to pack and walk over to the boy flat for our ride to Cape Clear Island. There was some organisational kerfuffle, which lead us to hanging out with Homebody for a good while before we left, but it was good fun. The drive was uneventful although parking in Baltimore was horrific. There was some festival or regatta or something on, people were all over the main streets and even illegal parking was hard to find. We still managed to get legal parks and made it to the ferry with minutes to spare.
The ferry ride was smooth for the most part and the weather was lovely. Near the end of the trip it got choppier, but it was fun rather than sickening. We were met just off the pier by mytholder et al and they escorted us up the hill to the camping ground. Pretty basic ground, there was a toilet block, but no BBQ/cooking facilities. In fact, I don't really consider it real camping because we didn't even cook anything ourselves. We had all our meals at the shop/restaurant at the waterfront!
We only stayed one night, which was probably a blessing as it rained the next night and delichan and mytholder, who had moved into our vacated (and as it was discovered, leaky) tent, were rained on. That tent was thrown out later that day.
I wore my onesie. I walked on sand. I had hot chips after midnight from the chip van. I drank tepid coke and malibu from a plastic cup. I had a good time. I don't consider it "camping". I don't know if Ireland actually has good enough weather for me to want to try real camping.
We got back home Monday evening and really blobbed. Staying up late, then sleeping on the ground (we slept on the groundsheet as we didn't even have foam mattresses), then longish car ride, means sleepy Giffy and Beau. We managed to get enough energy to buy takeaways for dinner (pizza and a salad), but that was about it.
Tuesday was a day of much movie watching. We saw The Dark Knight in the morning and went to the preview screening of Hellboy II: The Golden Army in the late pm. We liked Batman. We liked it *much* more than Hellboy. Some people have said that Batman could do with another edit. Hellboy *seriously* could do with another edit. I didn't hate it though. The elven prince fights pretty.
We also managed a library visit, some grocery shopping, made pumpkin soup for dinner and I even set up and used Neid's (mini!) sewing machine. I'm making a wheat bag with seperate cover for X+. I've finished the actual bag bit and have half done the cover. I'm doing some *basic* embroidery on it which is taking some time. I managed to do lots at work (hence the late posting) so if I go hard now I might finish it tonight.
Point of Fashion: Shorts are my friend
Current Obsession: Cleolinda's write-up of the 4th Twilight book. I don't care if it's spoilerific, I loves it!