Cass goes to Ireland: February 2011

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Ben Folds

You can cross this off the life goal list:

- See Ben Folds again. In Dublin. 3rd row.

Here's some video from the show. I have pieces of more, but for the sake of everyone's sanity I won't post all of it. Also, I didn't record it on my flip video (just my regular camera) so it's a little lower quality.

We got to talk with the band after the show.

I look like a little girl on Christmas.

Diana, Toups, & I before Benjamin came out to serenade us.

Monday, February 21, 2011

Travel Quotes & Visitor #1

Catherine Toupin came to visit for the weekend from Norwich, England :)

(We also saw a Ben Folds concert, I'll update with that soon)

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – Clifton Fadiman

“You know why you like to travel? Everywhere you go, nothing belongs to you. When you’re home, you’re weighed down by your possessions.”

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” - Robert Louis Stevenson

“Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.” – Mark Jenkins

“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard

Photos off the coast are from Dun Laoghaire (in County Dublin) and the pub photo is from O'Donoghue's in Dublin's City Centre

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

I got some mail (and chocolates!) just in time for Valentine's Day yesterday :)

Thanks for making it special all the way across the Atlantic!

London Calling

London Video from this past weekend! Enjoy :)

Cobh, Cork, & Blarney

From our trip to Cork County the first weekend in February!

Cobh - seaport town that used to be called Queenstown, very tiny & right on the water. It's probably most famous for being the last place that the Titanic picked people up from before it crashed into the iceberg. It also has a gorgeous Cathedral that is shown in the video (St. Colman Cathedral).

Cork - Ireland's third most populated city located in County Cork, "The Rebel County". It's a major irish seaport, having one of the world's largest natural harbors.

Blarney - is famed as the site of Blarney Castle, home of the legendary Blarney Stone.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Kissin' Stones. Blarney Stones.

I apologize on behalf of my hair.It rains in Ireland. A lot. And by rains, I mean it "mists" --It's never a "downpour" really, and it's not fair to call it "rain";it's always just enough so that it ruins a good hair day. (...or photos/videos for blogs)
Oh well!
Stay posted, I'll be putting up Cork, Cobh, & Blarney pictures from this weekend in the near future.

Happy Superbowl Sunday everyone! (Comment or e-mail me the best commercials so I can look them up on YouTube! I beg you!)

Thursday, February 3, 2011

A Plethora of Pictures

Dublin Pictures

Celebrating Chad's 21st birthday

So... at night, people take you around on chariots in the city to get you around from pub to pub for like 2-3 Euros. Since we were celebrating, we figured we might as well have a chariot race. Team ChadCass lost.