TO THE CASTLE!

Hiiii everyone! As you can tell I'm in a MARVELOUS mood. That's probably because I am full of tunnock's caramels and tea! Okay, I'm gonna break this thing up into section just so you have the slightest chance of keeping up with me when I go off on random tangents....
Also...managed to finally get fbook to let me upload some photos so here's the links to the two albums:
First few days: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=195678&l=1279c580a6&id=504857518
Howth: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=195692&id=504857518&l=07e2b7d45a

*FOOD*
I think I'm in a good mood cuz I have such good food in my tummy. lol. I made a delicious lunch and even yummier dinner *daydreams about yummy steak.* I really think I'm getting decent at this. I made dinner for 10 people the other day. Rice and Rosemary Chicken in Mushroom Sauce. No one is dead yet.
And while I'm on the theme of food... there's pizza at the O'Connell house this week. Hahah I never though I'd be this excited about free food but it saves so much time when you don't have to cook it yourself. Also...I LOVE pizza.

*ROOMMATES*
On a slightly related note (related because I cook in the kitchen and I hang out with my roommates in said kitchen) I realllly like my roommates. We all (well, most of us) get along really well and we actually just spent 5 hours sitting there talking. They're awesome girls and I'm really glad I got them. Deidre (from Penn State) has her brother making us door stoppers so we can leave our doors open (since they automatically close). This is mildly amazing as most of the other ND girls either don't talk to their non ND roommates or just exchange polite hellos. I am super lucky.

*HOWTH - HIKING, SEA LIONS AND FISH & CHIPS*

So I went to Howth (pron. - Hoath) on Saturday and we went hiking. We basically "made our own route" (which is code for we got lost). We were following paths and stuff but let's just say not all those paths ended up somewhere. We consequently did a fair share of path hopping and estimating what general direction we were facing. hahaha. The fog didn't help. Though we actually ended up climbing higher than the fog and emerged from the forest onto a rocky cliff in the sunlight. But we had no clue how high up we were/ where we were becaus enow that we were't surrounded by trees the fog was thick enough that we couldn't see past three feet down the cliff next to us. When the fog eventually lifted we discovered that the answer was A VERY LONG DROP.
Anyway, we eventually all agreed upon a path and made it back up another hill and down down down down dowwwwwwnnnn to the town again where we had fish and chips for lunch.
I have to say, I still don't like fish. You may find it queer that a person who lives on an island doesn't like fish but I really don't. I take everyone else's word that the fish was amazing but I'm still raving about the chips (yummmm vinegar) lol. I was tempted to feed my fish to the sea lions but I don't think deep fried food is good for them lol. BUT AHHHH SEA LIONS ARE SOOOO FREAKING COOL! THEY WERE JUST THERE CHILLING IN THE WATER! AHHHHH SOOOO COOOOL. lol.
Okay then we went for a hike along the cliffs. Which was awesome. I think we saw dolphins in the distance too....I'll let the pictures do the talking for that part. But it was spectacular despite the blistering cold.