HEY! Today was like the best day EVER so i couldn't resist updating this right away. We woke up super early, and retrieved my camera! YAY! and then we checked out St. Georges Market that had like jewlerly and meat and baked goods and stuff. Then we caught a coach bus that was taking us around Anterim Coast and then up to Giants Causeway. Our bus driver, Tom, was SO CRAZY but so awesome. He told us the randomest stories, I even took a video. Check fbook for that one too. I'm going to be busy when i get back to Bader uploading the 300 pictures I took.
So our first stop was just at this little town on the coast with a harbour that was really pretty. But it was SOO windy. Tom told us the winders werew 80mph.. which apparently is no biggie here. I was actually worried for my safety (But that is not a death attempt!) So we drove for a really long time along the coast, and stopped at a few random places just to take pictures, and this is where my first near death experience occurs. Tom told us that there are two routes, one thats normal, and one thats steep and narrow and coaches can;t go on them. So he says 'Were not allowed to go right'. Then he turns right. He did this like four times. So needless to say the ride was extremely bumpy, extremely steep, extremely close to the clifff edge and extremely close to other cars. But tom drove no problem, whilst telling us random stories about dead puppies.
Our second stop was Carrick-a-rede suspension bridge, which is where death experience number two happens. It was soo beautiful here though, I really can't even describe it! Straight out of national geographic. Here there was this bridge, made of wood nad rope, and strengthened by steel piping, and we crossed it in the 80mph+ winds, while some americans were bouncing up and down on the other end. It was quite terrifying but pretty unreal. Tom told us that if we crossed it we would be heroes to all our family and friends. So consider me a hero.
Our last major stop was Giants Causeway which was SOO COOL. Again, straight out of national geographic. If you don't know what this is, Its an odd geographical formation, that looks kind of like hexagon pillars. There are two theories as to how they formed 1) Volacnoes millions of years ago (boring!) or 2) There was a giant named Finn McCool whi challenged a giant named Ben from Scotland to a fight, and even built him a causeway so that he could walk right over. So he did. And when Finn saw him he was way too big, so he got scared. So them his wife dressed him up like a baby and when Ben saw him he figured that if thats how big the baby was, e did not want to fight the father! So he ran away, and stomping on the causeway, and Finn woke up and threw the sword of the Earth at him, and won. I much prefer that story. But yeah seriously check out the pictures it was so breaktaking.
Now, death trap number 3. So you can walk out on the columns pretty much out to the ocean, and alison insisted on walking out as far as we can. So we walk out and these huge waves are crashing around us and it was so cool. So we keep going. Then all of a sudden this HUGE wave looms and I just froze. I swear it was tsunami level I was terrifed. So I turned and started running, which is hard on hexagon columns. Needless to say, I got soaked, and almost had a heart attack.
We also stopped at a distillery, infact the oldest distillery in the world! Which was pretty neat.
I head back home to Bader tomorrow, to face a mountain of laundry and work. Back to the 'regular' life i suppose.
Miss you all lots.
