Melting Away

Well, the end is near. We have only six days until we jump on a plane and leave the Emerald Isle. I started getting our stuff cleaned out and organized today. Also finalized arrangements for a little vacation on the way home.

The vacation... we looked into spending some time on a beach at Christmas, but it didn't work out. Our shipment hadn't gotten here yet and I wasn't very organized. So we stayed in Ireland. Now that our time is up, most people expect us to go to Europe and spend a week or so there... I mean, we're almost there already. But when Jay and I were talking, we both agreed that we had already seen a lot of old buildings and historical monuments. If we had traveled at the start of our trip, I'm sure we would have done the Europe thing. But we aren't at the start, we're at the end. And it's February and it's been winter and we want some sun. So we are off to the Caribbean for a few days. This will let us make half the transition with the time change and get some sun and enjoy going nowhere but the beach.

The actual island is Curacao. We leave Dublin on March 1. We'll be on Curacao from March 2 - March 8. Coming and going we'll spend a night in Miami. That gets us back in Oregon on March 9th.

Holavarri health... I think I mentioned that Kahlil had the sniffles a couple weeks back. He may have had a bug, but he was definitely teething. He now has 12 teeth! The eight in the front and four molars. That means we are half way done with teething... thank goodness.

So the sniffles were over, but on Thursday Kahlil decided to puke all over the place. He wasn't running a fever and he seemed to be in pretty good spirits, except when he was actually throwing up. And for the last two days he's had stuff running out the other end. Poor guy. I'm not sure what caused it, but I'm suspicious of a milk sippy cup that had been out for several hours. It had rolled under the table where I couldn't see it until Kahlil pulled it out and was drinking from it.


The picture is one of my favorites from Morgan and Kataneh's visit. (If you want to see another GREAT picture of Kahlil... click here :-)

Jay and I are both in good health. Hope it holds.

Life in Ireland... over the last couple weeks it's been the Six Nation Rugby tournament. I really don't know that much about rugby or the tournament, but it's been BIG here. The Irish hosted the French a couple weeks back. There were a bunch of funny talking guys in berets walking around Dublin (and sometimes they would burst out in song in the middle of a pub :-). The game was close and in the last few minutes the Irish pulled ahead. There was much celebration. And then the French scored in the final few seconds and snatched the victory away from the Irish. It was pretty devastating for rugby fans... I could empathise.



This weekend the English will be here and it's quite controversial. The game will be played in Croke Park. Jay told me part of Bloody Sunday happened in Croke Park... English shot and killed Irish fans and players during a Gaelic football game. Since that event in 1924, the English have not been allowed in to the park. There will be protests. We plan to watch the game at Carrie and Flor's house.