I recently took a trip to Ireland…oh, alright, it was in May. I was going to blog about it right away, but I came back with over 4,000 pictures and got totally discombobulated. So, I’m going to try my best to put my trip into a nutshell for you, in words and in pictures.

Now that I’ve had time to think about how to present this trip to you, I have decided to make different posts over the next several days, on at least (but not limited to):

- The Itinerary

- The Driving Experience (they think they drive on the left side, the rest of us think they drive on the wrong side)

- The People (very tall)

- The Bathrooms (always an adventure)

- Storming the Castle (lunch with the Lord)

- The Weather (it didn’t rain on us once!)

My painting friends were going to be there for the whole week, painting at Curraghmore Castle, near Waterford. But my friend Katy and I decided that, rather than paint all day every day, we would rather photograph Ireland and then paint, paint, paint when we got back. So Katy joined my husband and me, and the three of us toured the island for several days on our own before meeting up with the castle crowd.

To be continued…