the last week, and traveling

Hello all!! Well, jacks and I finished our rotation, took our test, and are on our way to Ireland. At the moment, we are sitting in a coffee shop/internet cafe in a tiny town of Holyhead. We are waiting for our ship to take us to Dublin. Holyhead is a little port town in Wales that runs most of the ships to Dublin. We had the most lovely train ride here....it was 3hrs, but the scenery was absolutely beautiful....much better than what we have been seeing. We pretty much rode along the water and saw the most amazing little towns.

I would usually consider myself pretty good at geography, etc (thanks to the lovely computer game, Where in the World is Carmen San Diego), but, I seem to have lapsed in my knowlege of England....because I guess I never paid attention enough to see that Wales is actually another country, much like Scotland...iu guess i just thought they were territories like Canada has....but, anyway, they have a completely different language...i can't even explain it to you....crazy, but thank goodness, the signs are in English, as well! See below...
















We got here at 230ish and our ship leaves at 515, so, we are hangin out here. We will spend 2 nights in Dublin with a girl named Shannon (the sister of one of her friends), adn then one more night in a hostel in Dublin, then we take off for a wild trip with paddywagon tours (www.paddywagontours.com) for a 3 day tour of west and south ireland. It should be fun...i hope! Then, one more night in Dublin at a hostel, and then a complete day of traveling on trains and ships, to finally make it to Gatwick late Thursday night, and fly home Friday! we are excited about Ireland...but excited to come home, as well. So, that is our schedule thus far. Hopefully I will be able to write more while in Ireland, but neither of us have our computers (it is backpacking life for the next 6 days!), and as far as pictures go, they will have to wait, as well! Miss everyone dearly! see you soon!
love, kris and jacks