More of Northern Ireland!

I should have updated long ago, but I have been super busy with Danielle and Rob visiting me March 13th-18th and Matt visiting me March 17th until this morning actually. I just dropped him off at the airport! Anyways, I promise to write more about their visits, but I never finished telling you all about Northern Ireland! So, we went to the Ulster-American Folk Park, which is kind of like a Genesee Country Museum, except it shows how Irish lived in Ireland, how they traveled to America and how they lived in America. It was very interesting. They showed us a couple houses that families would have lived in with straw roofs and all. Then they showed us what the inside of the ship would have looked like that people would have taken to America. Each bunk would have to be shared by 5 people... imagine! We also saw the house of Joseph Hughes, the first Catholic Archbishop of New York, born in 1797! This is the Archbishop who ordered the construction of St. Patrick's Cathedral in NYC! Less importantly, while I was there I got to feed chickens which I was pretty excited about! Next we went to the Giants Causeway! Legend has it that an Irish giant, Fionn, built the causeway to walk to Scotland to fight a Scottish giant Benandonner. Fionn fell asleep before he got to Scotland. When he did not arrive, the much larger Benandonner crossed the bridge looking for him. To protect Fionn, his wife Oonagh laid a blanket over him so he could pretend that he was actually their baby son. When Benandonner saw the size of the 'infant', he assumed the alleged father, Fionn, must be gigantic indeed. Therefore, Benandonner fled home in terror, ripping up the Causeway in case he was followed by Fionn.




While visiting the Causeway I saw the most gorgeous rainbow which made the visit even more spectacular!
After visiting the Causeway we traveled a little further along the coast until we reached our next destination. We walked for about ten minutes along the coast looking at an island in the water that we were about to go on after crossing a rope bridge! The rope bridge was quite scary if you ask me! it was really windy while crossing it, but I made it! and the island itself was very windy. The view, however, was absolutely magnificent. I fell in love with the various shades of green on the island, and even more so with the shades of blue in the water and the sky. I tried to get a nice picture of myself on the island, but the wind kept blowing me over! This is the best I got! Thats all about Northern Ireland! Next post will be about my visitors and our adventures! Hope everyone is doing well!

Cheers!