Settling in
We have a place to live! We are slowly settling in to our wee cottage on the farm, which I tried to describe in my last post. Pictures are coming, as soon as Chris puts them up. Despite the incredible wallpaper and random knicknacks, it really is a lovely place. I’m currently sitting in our glassed-in sun room, enjoying the blue sky that we apparently brought with us. Ireland has had one of the rainiest summers on record, but the weather is forecasted to be sunny for the next week to ten days, so we’ll enjoy it while it’s here! Our landlady is lovely and very enthusiastic. It’s the first time she’s had renters, and she seems very excited about everything. When we got here yesterday evening, she had even stocked our fridge with food for breakfast. She and her family live in the main house on the property, with our cottage is just behind it.
In order to be able to live out here, we had to get a car, which Chris posted some photos of on his Facebook. (Apologies if that doesn’t work… we’ll put the car photos up here when we do the house ones.) It is awfully strange driving on the right side of the car and the left side of the road, but Chris is getting pretty good. I haven’t done more than drive around the parking lot when we first bought the car, but I will practice more soon. Despite our research, we did end up paying more for car insurance than we expected, due to us having foreign licenses, which they automatically classify as provisional rather than full licenses. Oh well. You only live once.
This weekend, we are planning on going to Adore, a Catholic young adults conference. We’re hoping to meet some cool people there, since our online searches for youth ministry around here have turned up nothing.
Chris is off sailing at the Royal Cork Yacht Club tonight, and I am doing some much-needed laundry and putting things away. Though our place is furnished with all the basics (and a whole lot of extras), we are still in the stage of discovering all the other little things we need. Chris nearly went crazy making stir-fry for dinner last night because the only knife we have is a very dull serrated one. We will make lists and collect things. All shall be well.
