Finding our way around the curves & Kilkenny Craic

Greetings!

Mom and Bill were surprised breakfast couldn't be eaten at 7 a.m! The Irish don't begin their day until 9 a.m.!!

It was an eventful day. Our travel system is now Bill who reads the map and controls the GPS, Clare drives the narrow and winding roads, and mom, well she rides in the back reading, looking around, talking and once in awhile takes a nap!!

I must say a map is needed along with the GPS.....and it is still VERY easy to get lost on the back roads, which we did more than once today:) sometimes the GPS lady just doesn't quite find the right back road and sometimes we can't find the road on the map!

We were lucky to find Moore Abbey, a monastery from the 1200's BUT we were also lucky enough to lose our way and make a big circle around and come across it again on the same road!! Imagine our faces when we drove up to it again, I'm laughing right now thinking about it. I think we got lost a couple times after that even.

We also encountered 2 cows taking their time walking across the road. Their owner was busy talking to his neighbor as they took off to find a field. They just looked at us as we sat laughing!

We finally made it to Kilkenny, which took forever. I even called the B & B owner so they would know we were coming. Butler Court is a lovely little b & b.

We are right on the main street of Kilenny so walked to The Field Pub for pub grub.
Bill and I had Irish Stew, mom had fish and chips and topped it off with a Baileys & coffee, hence why I'm still awake! Ok, do you know what craic is? Good laughs, fun and traditional Irish music. We were lucky enough to have the fairies bring us here tonight, boy were we lucky.

The four man group consisted of a banjo, two spoons, accordian and guitar. They started their set with some Irish tunes, a few jokes and ended the set with Finnegan's Wake. A casket was brought in with someone in it playing Michael Finnegan while they sang the song. Afterwards they brought a few from the audience up and placed them in the casket as they sang about them.....look who was picked up and placed in the casket, how creepy is that. All we could do was laugh and play along.

We'll take in some sights in Kilkenny tomorrow before heading to Avoca for the weekend. Love to All from The 3 of us.....