Pure Beauty

The morning began with boarding a Paddywagon bus for our day trip to the Cliffs of Moher, The Burren, and Bunratty Castle. Our bus was extremely hott and they crammed 30 people in this bus with very little air flow...it was both stinky, and HOTT! Our first stop was the burren the word "Burren" comes from an Irish word "Boíreann" meaning a rocky place. It is a very rocky area the rocks are limestone the area is very unusual looking but beautiful in its own way! 

After the Burren we headed to lunch at a small town area and we all enjoyed different items and had time to look around at the stores. Once lunch was complete we headed to the Cliffs of Moher! I must say they are the most beautiful thing I have ever seen in my entire life! They are huge...for those of you have seen Princess Bride these are the cliffs of insanity! The views where amazing they just took your breath away!  At our scheduled time we left the cliffs and headed for Bunratty Castle for a quick photography stop and to grab a pint if we wanted to at the pub! Once we got back to Limerick we stopped off at a University of Limericks senior showcase...everything was really interesting and creative! After we finished up at the senior showcase we had the night to ourselves which was nice and relaxing! 

New city, new adventures

Today was kind of a slower day for us. This is mainly due to the fact the fact that it was our first day in limerick. We started off by getting up early once again to catch the bus. The bus ride was only about three hours long. Most of us spent this time sleeping. Upon arriving to Limerick, we headed straight to the Strand hotel. Yes, i said hotel and not hostel. I knew it was going to be a great hotel just by walking into the lobby! However, when we got there we found out our rooms wouldn't be ready until 3pm. But the good news about that is they were nice enough to take our luggage from us and put it in our respective rooms when they were ready. So, after leaving the hotel we split up to grab lunch. We also had some extra time to walk around and get to know the city. We then caught a bus to The University of Limerick. We had a meeting with one of the Professors in the computer science department. Not too many question were asked because I think a lot of us were suffering from that "2:30" feeling. However, she was very informative about how they do the program there. After that the international student office gave us a tour of the campus. I think we could all agree that we wish Ball State has a campus as nice as theirs. After the tour we went back to the hotel. We pretty much all just hung out in our air conditioned rooms over looking the city of Limerick for the rest of the evening.

Dinner and a show!

Here are some video clips that will give you a flavor of what we enjoyed earlier this evening.