The house is full of people. On Saturday three more people arrived; Hugh (the oldest brown brother), Liz from Wisconsin (here in between a term in Rome and a term in London), and Sachi from Japan (a recurring guest at the Brown household currently studying ethnomusicology in Limerick). Finally, Sachi's younger brother Kuni arrived yesterday on his first trip outside of Japan. The place is turning into a regular old hostel for the Christmas season. Everyone is a lot of fun.
We've been putting all the manpower in the house into trying to complete a 3000 piece puzzle of an old world map. By old map I mean the California coast runs east-west and South America is connected to Antarctica. Cartographers where one confused bunch back then.
Saturday Joseph and I walked to the stone circle which is a large circle (maybe 80 feet across?) of large misshapen stones on top of a hill a few miles from their house. Saturday night we went out to the pubs in Letterkenny (a city about half an hour north of Raphoe). It was a sort of reunion night for Joseph and Jon's friends who are all coming back from University for the holidays. Most of the night was at McGinley's Pub in at a table in the corner of the second floor. They took a picture of our group so I may now grace the McGinley's wall of fame. The night ended with devouring chips (fries) in Letterkenny's Chinatown which, as far as I could determine in my drunken stupor, only consists of about three buildings. Actually the night ended with eating toast in the Brown's kitchen, which seems to be how all drinking nights end here. I'm a fan.
Christmas has been quite pleasant. It almost never snows in Ireland, but there was a heavy frost last night and we woke up to pretty much the closest thing to a white Christmas that we could get. We had a nice breakfast then went to the service at the local Presbyterian church (Joseph and Jon's father Brian is the minister). After snacks and champagne at the house of the Morrow family we returned home to open presents (I got an Earlham baseball cap from my father that, according to the tag, makes me 72% more attractive to the opposite sex.) Finally Christmas dinner, more desserts than you could shake a stick at, and then general lethargy/games/music playing.
Finally, some random goodness.
Things I am appreciating these days:
-Sachi's Japanese/Irish accent
-Wine with meals
-The dessert wine Liz brought from Italy that tastes like marzipan
-Toast and tea
-Musical people who aren't full of themselves
-Lights that are turned on by pulling cords
-The verbal jousting of the Brown family
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Well, it sounds like you are having a wonderfull time Mr! Ireland sounds beautiful! You can officially say you have gotten drunk in an Irish Pub...priceless! So, are you getting excited for New Zealand...??? That was a stupid question, I'm sure you are. Drink a beer for me! :-)
Your life sounds simply amazing right now.
That is all.
Hey! I'm just now getting caught up on these posts... But that Christmas sounds amazing!! It makes me want to go back to England and visit my camp friends there. Oh, and you must be going to the bathroom constantly with all that tea!!!
love Jessie
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