Ireland!

Hello all!

Things are starting to wind down here, I just took my first final and will have four more to take next week, but then I´m finished!
We had a long weekend, the past weekend, so I had the chance to go to Ireland! It has been incredibly hot here the last couple of weeks, so a cool, rainy weekend in Dublin was great! I spent Friday just walking around the city, I got to see Trinity College and the two big cathedrals. I also toured the Guinness factory, so I now have all kinds of random facts in my head that I will most likely never use again!
When I booked the trip I knew that I wanted to attempt to see where my family is from in Ireland, so after I little research, I found out we are from Offaly County, which is where I ended up spending Saturday. Needless to say there isn´t a whole lot there, but it was still such a unique experience to have. I just spent the day wandering around the main city of the area realizing that I decended from someone that probably walked down those same streets.
Sunday ended up being quite the experience for me, I decided to go out to Howth, a small village about 20 minutes out of Dublin. It´s a same port town and extremely beautiful. Howth is known for not only its port, but also hiking around the area. So I decided to be brave and follow the trail.... I did good for the first half, but somewhere along the way I got a little lost! And then of course because I was in Ireland, it started to rain- definitely not the high point of the trip :) Needless to say, I ended up on the edge of a golf course. I could see the village on the other side and decided that since I was cold and wet, I didn´t care about getting hit by golf balls too much, so proceeded to walk straight across the course and found a coffee shop to escape the rain and warm up in.
It ended up being quite the weekend, and I am so glad that I went, although now I am a little behind on my work, it was totally worth it!

Extremadura