the diary of an insane person: the last week in renvyle

in the last week here i've been in clifden, renvyle, letterfrack, galway city and west port. connemara is just the most beautiful place in the whole world. i've been to music shops, seen horse shoes being made, sea kyacking and golfing! my great uncle thady took me golfing for the first time and i couldn't imagine a more picturesque place to golf. the tpc scottdale has nothing on the renvyle house's course! (on a side note- the owner of the hotel says he has been to the tpc in scottsdale and does not agree with my thought on the courses!) we've had 3 consecutive days of sunshine here this past weekend and so i've been outside on the beach at the house and on walks enjoying the rare, sunny irish weather. we have been swimming in the sea off the white strand... it's a bit cooler than the pools in scottsdale but i'd say i prefer it here!

saturday evening i went out to the disco and sunday morning i went to mass at the church in honor of the anniverary of the death of stephen salmon, my great grandfather. it is a beautiful church and everyone seems to know that i'm a salmon. and they keep saying that they are so glad i've come home!

last night was the first game of the euro 2012 and ireland played so we were all decked out in green and orange and watched a disappointing first game for ireland. hopefully there are better games to come for the irish! peter was chanting "let's go ireland... go st. patrick!" and after much confusion steph had to explain to him that st. patrick didn't play for ireland and so his cheer didn't make any sense. he didn't care and continued to paint his face with streaks of green and white and orange. we had ordered food from about the only fast food-esque place in renvyle and got "thady burgers" which are named after my dad's uncle thady. it was delicious.

there are loads of things to catch up on, but, as i said, the sunshine is calling me to be outside and i will write again later.

xoxo

the view from the house