2/26/05

We had our first day off together today! so we made full use of it. We were intending on taking a trip to Cork, but in the end we decided to Climb Tork mountian. We made pancakes for breakfast. Caleb decided to "help" me with the pancake batter. I nstead of adding 4 Tablespoons of sugar, caleb thought that he read 1 cup of sugar and put that in instead. haha the pancakes really tasted like cake. They were yummy and packed full of energy and we needed it. We chose to climb tork mountian. We hitched into town and got a ride right away. The guy dropped us off downtown. We walked about 8 minutes and then decided to catch another ride. We got a ride right away(good sign) from these extreamly nice people. The guy driving was from the Cataluyna area of spain(Didoc) and a couple origonally from France,(sebastian and Sophie). All 3 of them are living in cork right now. But as luck would have it they were also planning on climbing Torc mountian! Sweet! The ascent to the top or Tork mountian wasnt nerly as difficult or as wet on the feet as Carentool. When we arrived at the summit it was very cold. No snow, but some ice. There was an amazing view from up there. On our way back down we paused for a stream side lunch. A stray dow cam along and begged us for food and shook himself all over us(and our freshly washed backpack) After the mountian trek we hiked over to the muckross house with our new friends. We had some great conversations about organic farming and American politics. Fortunatly they are sane and think much the way we do :) If only we were making the would political decisions and not the power hungry currently ruling. Seb and sophie lived in canada for 7-8 years. We told them how we would love to live there along with 50% of the other American who are fed up woth our government. We drove to a pub in Killarney to have a pint. We talked a lot about My favorite subject, MOVIES. So it was grand. We also had discussions about other topics as well. They were kind enough to give us a ride back to the hostel. We had great fun with those 3 and hopefully we weill meet with them again. Our friends from the hostel invited us to go out with them to a pub in Killarney but we were to tired. Katrina called but I missed her call :( I was sad.