Ireland: Day Four

This was the day that it rained. Yes, we are lucky bitches, we had one day of rain in our entire trip. The day's activities consisted of a trip around the Ring of Kerry. Nicholas and Phil weren't feeling well that day and stayed in the hotel. Nicholas' excuse? "Tell them Dr. Robotnik took all my golden rings." The Ring of Kerry was beautiful, but not overly exciting. The best part was our stop at a miniature recreation of a bog village (you could enter the huts and walk around) that featured some random dogs running around that Shannon told Emily not to pet, and a trip to the Red Fox Inn, known the world over for their amazing, amazing, amazing Irish coffee. Somewhere along the way we stopped for a group shot. Joe, Shannon and I were posed in front of the rest of the group on our knees, prompting one of us (Joe?) to say, "We're kneeling because we're the only ones who can."

We went back to the hotel, found the boys, and went on an adventure: a ride around Killarney in a jaunting cart. Our driver, Patrick, and his horse, Paddy, seemed to know Peter the tour guide, but their thinly veiled hatred revealed a longstanding feud that we weren't able to delve into too deeply. We don't remember what else we did that afternoon, I'm guessing it involved ice cream. We do recall watching a LOT of music videos, including Simply Red, a lad called Alexander who had a song called "Take Me Tonight," Atomic Kitten, and a strange lad who had won 2nd runner up on "German Idol" named Daniel K. His video was an odd parody of Austin Powers that also featured Kermit the Frog. Apparently there aren't too many limits on the VJ's dialogue on European tv; one of the DJ's talked of "electrical c***ksucker c**t knobheads." That evening Phil and Emily took a brief trip to the Crypt while everyone else stayed in, but nothing else of note occurred.

Pictured: Emily "pushing a ho" in the bog village