The Final Getaway

This weekend Danielle and I wrapped up Ireland with one last trip. It was more of a vacation, because we stayed in a lovely bed and breakfast and didn't do much. Other than ride horses for two hours on the beach and relax in seaweed baths. :)
Okay, so it was WONDERFUL. Horseback riding? On the beach? In Ireland!? My life is so fantastic right now, except for that fact that I can barely walk and my legs have some lovely bruises. Let's see. The last time I rode a horse was probably...oh back when I was something like 14 or 15? Maybe even earlier. Sure, I took lessons when I was little but that was a loonngg time ago. When asked if we had riding experience we may have exaggerated just a little...but hey, we got up on the horses and managed to cling on for two whole hours AND somehow miraculously cantered across the beach. That's right. I honestly had no idea what a canter was until he told me to just go with it and hold on...right, go with it and hold on. I'm lucky I'm not dead. But posting apparently is something like riding a bike and by the end of the time I was looking like a pro...yeah right, but I wasn't terrified anymore :)

After completely using all our energy on that wonderful experience, we crashed super hard and took a looong nap. We went to dinner at a fantastic italian restaurant and discussed how depressing it's going to be when we go home and can't order wine to go with our pasta. :( life's hard. Sunday was another really tough day. We went to a spa. Danielle got a full package complete with massage facial and seaweed bath but I opted only for the soak in the bath. Which looks DISGUSTING, and sounds disgusting but apparently does magical things to your skin.

Literally, you soak in a bathtub full of seaweed for an hour. Just having a bath was nice because every muscle in my body was screaming at me for that ride yesterday, but an hour is a long time. I got kinda bored and may have pretended to be a mermaid and made a lovely dress out of my seaweed. See, totally grown up. 

Overall this weekend was everything I needed to come to terms with the fact that I'm leaving in 6 days. It's time to wrap all my loose ends up and start saying goodbye. The christmas shopping has been done, the katie shopping has been done, and tomorrow night is our goodbye christmas party. 

Time has gone fast but as of right now I am ready to run to that plane and head for snow :)

Love,

K