The beginning...

Unfortunately, because of lack of time and internet, I wasn't able to post photos or daily updates while on my trip. Now that I'm home and have gone through my photographs (which took about 7 hours in total haha), I'm going to post a little something about what we did each day and a few photographs to go along with each blurb.

To begin:

Day 1 and 2 were basically hell. We left Rochester around 2:40 PM, then flew to D.C. where we had a layover for a few hours, then rode on an overnight flight to London, and finally to Cork, Ireland. We arrived in Cork around 10:00 AM or so only to find that no bus was waiting for us. We sat around the airport for about an hour before someone FINALLY came with a bus for us. Apparently there was some mix-up with the buses and the tour guide didn't know our flight was coming in in the morning, so we were dropped off in the city of Cork, where we ambled around for a few hours with nothing to do. We took some pictures there, but mine were all awful. I was just so exhausted at that point, running on about an hour of sleep and trying to adjust to the time difference. Finally, we met up with another bus driver who took us BACK to the Cork Airport, where we met another group on our tour and eventually reached our hotel (called Darby O' Gills) in Killarney, which was about an hour and a half from the airport. To say the least, it was a long few days.