seriously?
june flew by, like. i guess it still doesn't feel like summer for me. its not warm out, i'm not going somewhere to work at camp and i'm still doing college work. i guess once i'm home thought it will finally feel like summer.
so things are great here, i had a fabulous weekend! thursday it was such a yucky dreary day and i did some thesis work in the morning and i met with karen for lunch. and since i had the afternoon off we went back to my house to have tea and chat, and well we completely lost track of time and next thing you knew it was 5.30. it was soo good to properly catch up with her, especially since she is leaving for the alps and i'm going home. so that was fun. then kara came over and we made curry for dinner. it was fabulous. so needless to say thursday wasn't as productive as it could have been on the thesis, oh well.
friday i worked in the morning and then met up with kara and we had an adventure over to blarney. i wanted to go to the blarney woolen mills to get wedding presents. i wanted to get big something and and also i needed to get coop something, so i figured waterford would be nice. so i got big a vase and cooper a set of wine glasses, both are in special ireland only patterns. so then since it was sunny and nice kara and i got some food for a picnic and decided to be slightly knackerish and drink cider with our picnic, but stupid me had to get a bottle. and of course we didn't have a bottle opener, so we attempted to open it to no avail. but it was funny anyways. so then friday night catriona was celebrating her 21st. so that was great craic with everyone from the club, and a great chance to see everyone before we all go on our holidays. a bunch of people from the club are headed to the alps and i'm headed home.
saturday i worked on the thesis, i wrote another 1500 words. so i'm now up to 12,500. yay! chapter 3 has 3000 words, and i need about another 1000 for the chapter but of first i need to get more sources. gah england. so i'm meeting with andy to discuss it wednesday anyway, so we'll see if he has any ideas. so another 4000 words to write before i go home.
then saturday evening i went over to kara's for a wine & cheese. it was fun and great to just sit around drinking wine, taking and eating great food.
sunday was fabulous. i met up with some friends and we went hiking! i haven't been hiking since donegal the last week of march, so seriously forever. so karen, catriona, k2, brian, jack, tim, tom, denis, maurice and i set off for kerry, not sure on what we wanted to do, so we decided once in killarney to do the eastern reeks and it was fabulous. we did the second half of the reeks ridge hike, so up to the grotto, over the ridges and then down the bones. it was actually reallly funny, once we got to the bones a few of the lads were like lets go down the zig-zags, which were a 2 peaks over, so when we decided to split up, the girls all ended up choosing the original plan, and the guys all did the extended hike. we had to laugh at that. but it was great fun. and a mostly gorgeous day, the clouds came down a little at the end and it rained for like 5 minutes, but it was really awesome to see cahir, carrauntoohil and beenkeragh, because i haven't seen the tops from this side, they are always in the clouds. and when we did the reeks ridge in march, we did this section, but today we did it from the opposite side and last time it was sooo cloudy but this time it wasn't and the ridge wasn't as scary because you could actually see the drop, and not just the mist. and it looked really cool. so that was fun. but i think the highlight of the day was jack bringing a bottle of wine, where we toasted to catriona's birthday. it was pretty funny. we are some classy mountaineers.
so today just worked and i'm relaxing and might start thinking about what i'm bringing home, so i can try to get some of that organized. i'm trying to bring a ton of stuff home now, just so it is easier later.
carrauntoohil and beenkeragh
me
the ridge
cheers
the group
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