October 18th, 2011
Good afternoon!
Well, we are in Ireland now! Cork to be precise! Cork is the home to the famous Blarney Castle and the Blarney stone. The first stone was built around 1210 AD. You see today the ruins of teh castle as constructed sometime around the mid 1600's by Dermot McCarthy. In 1646 , Oliver Cromwell took the castle by force but King Charles II returned the castle to the McCarthys 15 years later. It was a very midevil castle with, of course, nothing in it. But we did get to kiss the legendary Stone of Eloquence, found at the top of the tower! Kiss it and you will gain the gift of Eloquence and never be at a loss for words. You have to lean backwards holding on to an iron railing.
After the blarney castle, we got on a train to Dublin at 2:00pm. Tonight we went to the Abbey theatre and saw Juno and the Paycock. It was all in a different language so we did not understand it but we got the concept based on the acting.
Tomorrow we leave Europe. I am sad but it will be nice to be home.
~Kileigh
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