In order to pack a bit more Irish into our stay here we went to a hurling match last Sunday and it is the sport of kings! It's like watching a cricket ball being whacked around by out of control hockey players at the speed of netball, love it. Injuries are frequent and some seem serious but I'm pretty sure we didn't see anyone die.
It was our boys from Galway playing the yellow guys from County Clare, we won but Clare made an impressive come back toward the end making it an exciting match.
Our motley crew Anna (kiwi), Erin (oz), Brendan (kiwi), Claire (french) and Mary (kiwi) all kitted out with the best 2euro shop flags we could buy.
The ball lands...
Hurling version of a ruck...
Note the ref is at least a stick length away from the action...
Guess which way the ball went.
We won! 2 goals (in the goal worth 3 points) and 24 points (over the bar is 1 point) add them up we won 30 to 25, simple.
It got really cold but you can hardly see it on our faces.
In other news Emmett now weighs like nothing and while the health benefits are great it has made his head look too big. Also he's taken to wearing my clothes... (hint: see the Singapore photos earlier in the blog)
In other other news we saw Juno this week and it rocks solid so go see it, then buy the soundtrack, awesome.
We're off this weekend to climb a mountain so we'll hopefully update again before we hit the road.
Love ya, see you soon!
Aimee and Emmett
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