My man has graduated!!!!

I need a doctor, oh wait, he lives with me now! Sweet!

I am extremely proud of this man in the picture, he is now Doctor Holton!

More Pics from California!

California bound

Greg and I took a trip to California for Sofia and Jose's wedding! We also got a chance to go and do lots of fun stuff!  Met up with family, ate In-N-Out, went to Paramount Studios tour, and to the wedding of course. Check out the pictures!

More pictures of NYC

New York City

On the way back to the US from Ireland, we stopped in NYC for a few days.  The first night we stayed at a Day's inn.  We were put in the basement where the smell of the cleaning supplies was so strong that I'm not sure I slept because I was exhausted from the trip, or because I was knocked out by the smell.  I can't believe $150 gets you a tiny room at a Day's in, in the basement, crazy.  We paid $150 for the Trump in Panama.

We took the sub to the city the next morning, after dropping off our bags at John and Stephanie's place in Manhattan.  A summary of our trip in NYC: ventured off, saw the red carpet for the NFL draft, walked around all over the place, went to a the Misserables Broadway show, which was AWESOME. Out of this world, I loved it.  Ate at China Town with John and Stephanie, walked and walked and walked more. Ate at Lombardie's pizza, first pizza place in the USA! the pizza was real good! Walked over the Brooklyn bridge, took a boat around the Statue of Liberty, went up Rockefeller's tower. Went to 911 Memorial, Central Park and Church where we saw Tim Keller speak. 

So, yeah it was a packed 4 day trip. Of course you can't expect any less from us.  We really enjoyed out trip and our visit with John and Stephanie, they were extremely nice and let us crash at their place for a couple of nights.  They are so centrally located, right by the river and close to everything. 

NYC was great, but def not a place where we would like to live.  A bit too chaotic and full of people but it definitely offers a lot of things to do!

 

Where is Galway?

This is our last night in Ireland. We drive to Dublin tomorrow!

                                               

   

Cliffs of Moher and Galway

It was about a 10 min car ride from Doolin (where the ferry dropped us off) to the cliffs. Oh by the way, the weather had changed suddenly, when we got off the boat, it was pouring and not just normal drops, they were big and it hurt, it must have had some ice pellets too. We had to run to the car.

We waited in the parking lot of the cliffs for about 30 min, since we thought it would stop raining then. IT DID! It cleared up. I was so so happy! I was seriously going to cry if I didn't see the Cliffs. 

I had been praying in my head for the weather to change! Thank you God, even in the smallest things you've showed us your hand and who you are.

Walked around the Cliffs for a long long time, got great awesome pictures. Then something happened, Greg and I were taking pictures, near the edge of the cliff (we were sitting don't worry) and the wind started blowing like crazy, it also started to rain a bit, we saw the rain coming so we got ready but we didn't know the wind was also coming. As we were sitting we put or heads low and stayed put hoping it would pass, no I didn't for a long time. So we were pretty much stuck out there about 3 feet away from the cliff not being able to move. I was super scared, it was 60mph wind, I thought it was gonna pick us up. The cliffs are 214 meter / 700 ft high. We needed to move off from the edge but it was impossible, just a slight movement of our head felt like I was going down the cliff.

We moved when we could and ran to the other side, which is about 15 ft from the edge. Then the wind picked up again, I layed down grabbing onto a fence, and Greg did the same. I was so scared, I thought we would never make it out. When the wind calmed down, we walked back to the main path where there is a rock wall between the cliff and us, much safer.

The Cliffs were everything I had always imagined. Aw they were just so impressive and breath taking. Wish I lived closer to see this every day. Pictures don't do justice for how amazing it is.

After the Cliffs, we drove to Galway, which is where we are spending our last night in Ireland. I can't believe it has come to an end. It's so sad, we loved it here. We wish we had had more time to spend in every place we went.

Galway is very modern, a much more developed city than where we had been, except for Dublin. We grabbed dinner at a restaurant, we both are seafood, since that's what the city is known for. Then walked to a pub to listen to music, which was great! And then walked back to the B&B.

Now we are laying in bed, Greg reads his book while I try to control my stomach. This will be a rough night, my stomach hurts so so bad.

So I wil just have to write the rest about our time in Ireland tomorrow, because really I can hardly move.

Oh one more thing! We saw a complete double rainbow today! And hands down, Ireland gets the best best rainbows out there, solid strong and intense colors.