After enjoying our delicious breakfast buffet this morning (Yes, I accidentally put porridge on Shiloh's potatoes thinking it was sausage gravy) we made our way down to the rocks on the beach only to find that the secret cave C & S were going to explore were quite filled with water! It appears the tide had risen sufficiently enough to submerge them. Methinks the full moon is to blame. So, we each got an ice cream instead and ate it in the 39 degree weather on the windy beach and laughed the whole time. After ice creams were eaten and our bodies were shivering, we hopped in the car to go checkout where the hostel we are moving to in two days is located.
The drive was wonderful and when we somehow missed a turn, we found ourselves turning around at an entrance for the Ballygannon Woods. The logic voice in me said, "No, let's turn around and finish finding the hostel. We can always come back and hike it after." Then, luckily enough for me, my heart voice (sounding an awful lot like my seven year old daughter) piped up with, "Or we can just hike it now." So, we left our car in the carpark and went on an impromptu hike through these gorgeous woods. C & S got to have an adventure of a different kind after all! They found a river, a trail of light, and even a rugby match that we kept enough distance from so as not to be seen. And then we magically still found our way back to the car and after some help from a kind man at a playground, our way to the hostel.
The adventure of school begins for them tomorrow and seeing as I am the fire under that endeavor at the crack of dawn tomorrow morning, I think I shall retire this evening. Pictures will be added of the woods, because my words would fail its beauty. But hey, that's what I came here for. To find the words that will succeed.
cheers
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