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Yes indeed. This time tomorrow I'll be sitting on a plane about to take off from Heathrow. Hurrah! It's going to be a great trip. I'll be meeting up with friends, going to a Cornell alumni event, attending what is certainly going to be a FABULOUS wedding, and, of course, seeing my family. I have to say I'm really excited for the wedding and am sure I'll have a story or two to share.

Last post I mentioned I was in Cork and that I kissed the Blarney Stone. Here's proof:


If you look at the zoomed in pic below, you can see that you have to lie down, lean over about 50 feet up in this castle, and kiss the last stone at the bottom of this wall. A bit bizarre, but pretty fun actually. They have these two polls you are supposed to hold but I, of course, was only holding one and got so excited about kissin the stone that the guy was yelling at me to hold the other. You can see him trying to push my arm towards the other poll. Hehe


Susie and I had heard stories about the locals going up there at night and pissing on the stone, but I thought it would still be ok for two reasons:

1. It was raining and it rains a LOT in Ireland (more than London, haha), so hopefully that washed everything away
2. The stone is at the top of a CASTLE. And they are built to make it sorta hard to get into. I've been a rock climber for a while, but even I would have trouble getting up there in the middle of the night after a few pints of Guinness.

Anyway, the other excitement for the weekend was that I got to see my first proper Irish Rugby match! We went down to the local Cork rugby pitch and crammed in with a load of Irish blokes screaming at the ref for 90 minutes. In the end, Munster (the province that contains Cork) beat Leinster (Dublin) 33-9. Take that!


Cheers,
Dan