358/365

The Chuggers are regrouping (pep talk included) before launching a full-fledged assault on Henry Street.

294/365

This new cat litter sucks.

243/365

In Ireland you have to pay to even LOOK at Santa. He lives in a grotto and you pay to go in there and sit on his lap. I wouldn't be surprised if you have to then pay extra for photos. This makes me a little sad. This is Santa's house in Jervis. It's much nicer than his house in the Stephen's Green Shopping Centre.

235/365

I'm surprised I came home with anything. My decision-making skills were brutal today!

234/365

Exciting times around here...I moved the dehumidifier from the bedroom into the living room because the mold is worse in there right now. We're pretty sure the landlord 'treated' the mold before we moved in by just painting over it. My new purpose in life is to track the mold growing in our flat, clean it, then make important decisions about the location of the dehumidifier. I'll need to add this to my CV as it's a very important job!

227/365

On my quest for french fried onions, I took the wrong bus. To get where I needed to go I had to walk down this posh road with lots of gates and walls.

211/365

Can someone come over and take care of this? Great! See you soon!

201/365

This is shopping in Ireland. I don't get it. People destroy the displays. A few weeks ago M&S had a sale and I wish I would have taken a picture of the carnage. It looked like a tornado flew through the store.

186/365

Most expensive piece of paper ever. Had to get a new graduation certificate since the Home Office kept my original when they issued my last UK visa.

179/365

No need to adjust your screens...our TV has turned blue. It will usually correct itself eventually, but it's more than annoying. This will be the second TV we will have gone through in the 8 months Wes has been in this apartment. Our first one blew up, smoke and everything. Now this one is blue. We blame the crap electrics in our flat.

174/365

Ireland is FINALLY voting on the Lisbon Treaty. The 'Yes' and 'No' signs are getting out of control! Click on the picture if you want to get the full effect.

149/365

This is her favorite spot on the couch. This means she takes up the whole freakin' thing when she sleeps here!

127/365

This is what happens when you plan a picnic in Ireland. It becomes weather-dependent.

83/365

This is the closest we're going to get to fresh corn for our 4th of July celebration. Mmmm...fresh from Morocco. At least it isn't vacuum-packed like most of the stuff you see around here!

43/365

It was a beautiful sunny day, so we met Mary-Liz and spent the day in the pub. Oops. Anyway, this pub has an awesome beer selection and they brew their own tasty concoctions, so it's a good place to visit. For each country, they have a description of the beers. This picture is the description for the US beers. You read the description and think, wow, they might be the one pub in Ireland that doesn't offer Coors Light and Budwiser! Bring on the fantastic beers you speak of! Um...no. After all the talk, they offered Coors Light, Miller Genuine Draft, Rolling Rock, and Sam Adams. No wonder people think American beer is crap! Oh, and that is 5 euro for a bottle of Coors Light. Ridiculous!


So we drank in Canada instead.

40/365

This greets me every morning. Apparently my husband has an aversion to closing drawers and cabinets. Sometimes I get the drawer AND a cabinet hanging open. Sweet!

39/365

Pick out the irony here! We are trying to set up a phone. I go buy a new phone at a shop in Dublin city centre. I bring home the phone and the cord doesn't fit into the jack. Turns out the phone is not compatible with the Irish phone system. It's a UK phone and the jacks in Ireland are actually compatible with US phones. So I had to buy this converter thing....to convert the phone I bought in Ireland from a UK phone to one compatible with the Irish system. Huh.

38/365

See! We really do have a phone and it's all charged up and ready to go! Maybe once Eircom and BT stop jerking us around we'll actually be able to use it!

35/365

It was cold enough that Wes had to wear his hat today and so windy my hair was blowing all around. The horrified look on my face is due to it being freezing in mid-MAY!!! BOO!!!!

15/365

This is our ceiling. We're fairly certain the little boy upstairs is training for a marathon. He runs the length of their apartment all. day. long.