SORRY, Left this out a few days ago.
5:00 Drove along the west coast of Ireland. Such beatufil country which as most islands have, a lot of coastline. We then drove all the way up to our place in Ballinrobe.
9:00 pm Here is where the day gets dicey. I swear that I put the number to our 5 star cabin in a notebook. Tragically I can’t find the number but the website does give us directions. These directions include vague references to farm houses and dirt roads and need less to say were not helpful in getting us to our final destination. So we then stop at Mac’s, which is just like McDougles in “Coming to America”, which means it has golden archs instead of arches and is red and yellow. Asking their top notch staff if they know where the local trailer park is located also does not help. So then papa Haggerty gets the ever so bright idea to ask the pizza delivery place. They know where it is and have a delivery near there so we set out to follow the pizza delivery boy. Well he flies our of the lot and our 4 cylinder filled with 5 people Ford Focus cannot remotely keep up. Luckily we somehow catch him after 2 stoplights. He then leads us into the darkest dirt roads and to the wrong set of trailers. Now we get desperate and use Kates “magic” phone to look up my email which I remember has the number. Only thing is we need some internet to mooch off of. So we park as close to a hotel as we can and success.
11:30 pm Make a phone call to Mrs. Mary of the Ballintrope Trailers at quite a late hour. She of course is very nice and lets us into our double wide. After unpacking and killing at least 11 spiders it hits me I might have saved the phone number in my cell phone. And there it is, the last two hours of ridiculousness could have been averted. Thus ends the first day of the Haggerty clan going international. You see why it has not been done yet and may never be tried again.
12:00 pm Luckily midnight in Ireland is not all that late, so our gracious hosts are awake and help us settle end.
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