Ireland

The trip was fantastic, but I'm so glad to be home in my own comfortable house (or duplex rather). The flights were rather long, but we survived with the help of bad airplane movies, Dramamine, and a new card game we learned. We actually got to spend a few short hours (like 3) running around New York on our long layover and saw a lot of famous stuff, which was surprising because we had no idea what we were doing.





When we got to Ireland, we spent a few days in Dublin seeing all of the major sights before heading out to a cozy bed and breakfast on the western coast. Dublin was so quirky and old and very friendly. We definitely enjoyed finding our way around and talking to locals. There were very few other tourists around, which made things pretty nice.


On the Dingle Peninsula we stayed right on the bay and got a feel for small town Irish living. The fishing, the pubs, the accents, the ancient ruins and elaborate churches popping up where ever. And most of all, the sticky toffee bread pudding and seafood chowder!



For the full version, check out our web album at:
http://picasaweb.google.com/Jessie.Gieseke/Ireland2009?authkey=Gv1sRgCJKXh4SxjsOHKg#

First Belly Picture

Many people have been encouraging me to do this, so I finally had Dan take a picture of my profile, which will now be a weekly tradition. I'm at 15 weeks in this picture and you can see that I'm showing just a little bit (enough to make my pants uncomfortable). I'm on the hunt for affordable and versatile maternity clothes that I'm sure will be needed in the near future.

Halloween

We had a fun pumpkin carving party at our place a few weeks ago. We had way too much food, but it was really nice to have friends at our place. Here are a few pictures.