Sleepy Galway

So this is what we wake up to most mornings now, it crisp and cold but the mist burns off into cool but sunny days. This suits me just fine as it means I can still shoo the kids outside if needs be, I just have to rug them up first.

Things have been pretty sleepy here, Emmett still works at the council and will do for another few weeks at least. I go to work 3 mornings and 5 afternoons a week which is about perfect because it's a fairly intense job and without breaks I still notch up enough hours to avoid secondary employment. The cultural diversity continues at Little Treasures with a Russian girl and a Polish boy our latest newbies, only 3 of the about 14 kids on the role are Irish. Many of the other kids are irish born but would not describe themselves as Irish, do not have Irish accents and are strongly aligned with their own cultural community. Fortunately no one seems to see this as a bad thing and things are rolling along nicely.

We're off to Dublin next weekend for a little trip, looking forward to it as we've only ever passed through the big city. There are a few essential sights like the Guinness factory and Trinity college with the book of kells that we intend to see so look out for a more lively blog entry soon.

We of course watched Ireland get knocked out of the world cup by Argentina, in fact my co-worker Sophia went to the game as she's Argentinian and her husbands cousin is in the team. We're hoping that the rather cool merchandise will now drop in price as most of it's made by canterbury and is very tempting indeed.

Well that's about it really, we're alive and well and one of us will write again soon!

Aimee