Today Was a Good Day

Yesterday in Kilkenny was a pretty bad day, but today made up for it because it was a very good day! First, I got to sleep in. That is something I am very good at but haven't had the chance to do since arriving in Ireland. This AM I slept, and it was good! After a lazy morning we decided to head out and contribute to the Irish economy.

I'm not a big shopper. I don't particularly like shopping and am not very decisive in the buying process. When I realized that I would be leaving Ireland in two days, and I had made practically no purchases and Christmas is just a few weeks away, well I got into the shopping mood real fast. Time is ticking away. Last year I think I did all of my Christmas shopping online, and at the last minute. Bah humbug. This year would be different. So...Annie and I made our lists, checked them twice, grabbed our shopping bags and hit the pavement. Our goal was to cross off everyone on our list, and still manage to fit it all in our suitcases (still to be determined). We headed to Nassau Street, had lunch at Kilkenny's (the store not the town we went to yesterday), then to Trinity College bookstore, then back to Nassau, then to Grafton Street, then to George's Street then to a few other streets and finally ended with dinner at a great Japanese restaurant. After dinner we went across the street to Dunn's to buy some snacks for later in the evening and for our fight home on Tuesday. We spent way too many euros, and bought so much stuff I'm not sure how we are getting all of these things home, but I feel great with the gifts we found for friends and family and am very glad we had a day to just shop and walk leisurely around the city. It was a very good day, indeed.

NOTE: The picture to the right was taken on Grafton Steet. (If you click on it you can increase the size for better viewing.) It is a group of senior citizens singing Christmas carols to raise money for the elderly. When they put a very eldery nun with the collection container you just had to donate.

FYI: According to the pedometer, we ended up with a grand total of 12358 steps. We definitely pounded the pavement today.