2 Weeks Old

Avery Kate Peters

Here she is, born March 20, 2011, at 2:32 pm, 7 lbs 3 oz.

New Year

Well, well, well, it's the New Year and I haven't updated the blog in 6 months...so I guess it's time to update the 2 of you who might read this blog. We just returned from Christmas in the States and a house full of nieces and nephews. It was a good time, a bit crazy, but it was fun, barely had time to do all that we wanted, visiting all the friends and family. We did a long layover in Philly so we could see the newest Nephew born, and lucky for us he was born the day we were meant to leave but we got pushed to the next day's flight and were able to see him.

But I suppose I should update on our latest adventure and that is the kid we're expecting on St. Patrick's Day...so that makes me 30 weeks along. We waited until 20 weeks to tell people just for fun. But all is going well and Lucy and Sugar threw a mini shower just before I left, so now we have our first baby clothes and even a stroller and car seat...crazy. We are working off the assumption that this is a girl, the doc said that he would've liked to have seen it clearer but his impression is that it's a girl...so that's what we're going on now, and of course we only have boy names that we both like. Andrew is vehemently anti Facebook announcements, so this will probably be the only venue for anything baby related to come...

Anyway, other things we were able to do was go to a Jazz game, Andrew's first NBA experience, visit a few friends with new babies and go sledding with the nephews, not to mention all the Christmas festivities. We also got to see Mark and Cat and fam including Maile who is now over a year old but we hadn't met her yet. So now we've officially met all the Nieces and Nephews. So now we're back in Ireland and back to the grind for now. Happy New Year!

Hahaha

K, so my mom sent me this card recently, she thinks she's very funny and likes to sends cards that reflect how clever she is...






I'd like to know what she sent Mark...

The Floods of 2009

Last week it rained so much that there were floods all over the south and west of Ireland. Cork got hit pretty hard and on Thursday night the rivers overflowed and parts of Cork were submerged. We live in the city centre and the floods came right up to our street but luckily did not go any further. UCC's lower campus was completely flooded and there was so much damage done to the buildings and to some of the student accommodation that they decided to close campus for the next week, everything was cancelled. Thank goodness, because my final year research project was due this week and I would've been ready but I will definitely use the next 3 weeks to make it even better! So while half the city has no clean drinking water (we do) and are not loving life right now, I'm so happy I don't have to present my project until Dec. 17! So I decided I have time to update the blog. Here are some pictures of the flooding.

This is Grand Parade, right by our apartment.

Another view of Grand Parade, entrance to the English Market is up on the left.

This is UCC's brand new Gateway Building and that's the bridge leading to it. Destroyed the building's ground floor, just opened up a couple months ago.

This is Washington St, right by the Courthouse. Also right by us, but our street was spared.

This Washington St., the road we walk on to get to UCC. Yes, those are floating cars.

Stand Up and Fight!

For Andrew's birthday I took him to see a Heinekin Cup Rugby game, that's like the Champion's League of Rugby. It was Munster vs. Treviso, some french team at Thomond Park in Limerick. Munster killed them 41-10. Andrew loved it, it was his first time seeing Munster in person, now he wants to buy season tickets.

Here are the tickets.

This is Thomond Park. We were in the North Terrace, where there are no seats, you stand the whole time but we were lucky because all the action was down on our end.




And this is how they begin every game, Stand Up and Fight! With the 3 Irish Tenors.

Darby O'Gill and the Little People

Andrew and I went to a wedding of our friend's, Eric and Anne-Marie, a couple weeks ago. It was good fun and the reception was held here at Darby O'Gill's in Killarney. First time we'd ever been there. During the reception a great trad band showed up and everyone gathered round and sang Irish folk songs for a couple hours. There's just something about drunk Irish people singing. As they would say, the craic was mighty!

I'm gonna put some videos up but videos from a mobile phone are not the best...

The Wild Rover




Whiskey in a Jar

Fields of Athenry