Castleconnell

It nearly killed Yasmin and Roya, but they were forced to part with Julia this morning as Julia had to go to school. To add to their misery, it was also time for us to get back to our school work. They managed it bravely and were pleased to have Nadim as their math teacher while I headed to the grocery store with Elizabeth.

It’s completely amazing to see the selection at the stores. We got a few things including some for me to make a few meals for us. It’s actually a treat to cook again and make some favourites from home. Nachos was the specialty tonight – not terribly difficult, but it was so nice to have one of our regular weekend meals from home.

We picked Julia up from school. You’d think the girls hadn’t seen her in ages. From there we went to feed the swans near a little town called Castleconnell. It was a beautiful country drive. Castleconnell is only five kilometres from Limerick, but it really is in the country. I particularly enjoyed the hedge rows where the road has hedges on either side that nearly meet in the middle forming a green, sunlight dappled tunnel.
We gave the swans some crackers, but the girls weren’t ready to go yet, so we took a walk along the riverside path.

Sophia has been a bit under the weather and wanted to be carried by her mom, but Elizabeth had a torn muscle in her side that was bothering her so it really wasn’t so good for her to do it. Nadim eventually won Sophia’s heart and they are fast friends now. She was asking Nadim to pick her up and run with her. I’m afraid we’ve created a monster!

The warm spring day is again taunting Elizabeth and Luke who had warned us that it rains nearly every day in Ireland. I’ve not started ribbing them about it yet as I’m afraid to jinx our fine weather.

CM