Part Deux-- Attack of the Killer Fart, Cows, and Nerdiness

Day 2: An Experiment With Barriers, Cows, and Flatulence

Some of you may be wondering about my sanity with that title. You'll understand why it's called that if you keep reading. 

When your day starts out like this:

You know you're in for a weird one.

We made a spontaneous decision to scrap our previously made plans to go to the Cliffs of Moher for the same trip for less money and also included more sites to see! The bus ride took us through Galway all the way to the mini cliffs before the actual stunning ones. The mini ones were just as terrifying and beautiful. 

 

As we traveled on the bus to the Cliffs I realized that bus drivers in Ireland are slightly insane. I also had no idea a HUGE bus could take sharp turns and corners that quickly without tumbling over the edge to our deaths. Props to them.

The first thing we saw as we climbed to the top of the hill was a castle just sitting on the edge of the cliffs and then we turned in the other direction and saw the famous cliffs. It was SO NICE that we actually had sunny weather. It was absolutely stunning.

For those of you unfamiliar with weather in the UK and Ireland.. this was a miracle.

There were signs all over the place to not climb over the stones blocking the people from the edges of the cliffs. Laura and I being rebels decided we would be safe and wanted to be different. So naturally we climbed over and overheard other tourists grumbling about our "idiocy". However we weren't in danger so personally I think they were jealous.

We also had great fun at the castle. We decided not to go up the castle because paying 2 euros to climb some stairs was not worth it. We already had a great video. Me being a parkour fanatic I decided to climb part of the wall. As I blissfully bounded to the doorway where I wanted to do this and old man set in his ways came out of the doorway and as he walked by me he let out the mother of all farts RIGHT ON ME. Needless to say I was not happy. Laura captured the moment perfectly...

But in the end I achieved the parkour stunt once the noxious gases subsided...

We decided to go off the beaten path and go along the cliffs where a few other people were headed. The views were amazing and completely worth the off road walking. We got views such as these:

 

Derek for some reason decided he had a new found love for cows. This is also calf season and mother cows are not the most welcoming during this time... He went into the field and harassed them all as a mother cow stared him down like he was about to take her calf to the butcher. He survived and felt the wrath of his fiance for almost getting trampled.

Moving on, our next stop on the way back to Galway was Poulnabrone Dolmen. It is a 5000 year old tomb. I was the only person on the bus excited about it. I was sitting at the very back of the bus and beat 3/4 of the people off the bus and literally ran to see it. Yes I am a HUGE nerd. But hey, it was COOL. 

I jumped around on the rocks after that and managed to twist my ankle. I also found a hole that "was made for my butt" according to Derek. After this I calmed down a little since my daily dose of nerd was satiated. We did stop at a scenic castle on the way back!

Stay tuned for part 3 the grand finale!