Galway City

Hi
Spent 3 days in Galway this past week. I had not been to Galway City before and have always wanted to see what it looks like. I've been all around the County of Galway, but this was the first time into the city. It looks just like its pictures make it look. The inner part of it is called the medieval city. Very old buildings all holding shops and cafes. I heard some good music, had some nice conversations managed not to buy anything. Last week, friends of Linda and Dennis' came over to visit. The three of us went into Dublin so I could show them around a little. Imagine - I'm the tour guide! We all three succumbed to sweater buying so I have a gorgeous new sweater. Outside of a couple of books and cds, though that has been my only splurge (oh yeah and the scarf to go with the sweater, sigh).

This coming week, more computer classes. I have also told Gerry, the librarian at Age Action, that I would be happy to enter new books into their database. It's not a shared database like C/W MARS, but an old stand alone type of system. So, I'll learn something new- not a bad thing!

Music highlight of the week - Linda and I have tickets to go see the Saw Doctors here in Dublin. That's kinda sacred!

Hope everyone is doing well
Lynn

This and that (or seo agus sin)

Nothing earth shatteringly new here. I feel like I live here over the past few days. Just settling in to a routine of doing the volunteering stuff. Today, I helped unpack about 1/2 of the Age Action Library; couldn't finish, though, because I went off to another class. This is a new one meeting on Monday afternoons. I really, really like doing the classes. Everyone is so nice. In this new class, there is a woman who has been a missionary in Ghana for 27 years and is just recently back in Ireland. There are 11 other people all wanting to just jump in and figure out these damned computers.

On the agenda is a trip out to Galway city later in the week (psyched!). Train and B&Bs. Also, we planned for a trip to London and the Cornwall coast for early March. It will cost about 50 euro round trip to fly there and back - why not go?

I watched part of a rugby match on Saturday between Ireland and France. France won. There is a big to do going on called Six Nations . VERY big deal around these parts. On March 15 Ireland are playing England at Croke Park. Tickets to the game are gone, gone, gone, but we're planning to go into Dublin, find a pub, and watch the game there. The one on Saturday was quite exciting - even for those of us who know nothing about rugby.

Anyway - that's that - just being a Dub for a short time - v. cool.
Lynn