as we rode out to fennario

i am tired.

the last few weeks have been a blur, an amazing blur, but a blur.

i have a few major posts in the works, as drafts, but i want to share some stuff now. i'm realizing that huge long posts aren't necessarily the way to go because i never seem to have the time to sit down and finish them.

so for now i'm going to give you some of my favorite photos from the last 5 weeks or so with captions. sort of a highlight reel.

a few weeks ago we went to play some Gaelic Games at a local Dublin GAA club.

the first game we learned was Hurling. the fastest game on grass!!

here i am leaping into the air, the ash hurley in my hand, ready to wack the crap out of that little ball once i get my hand on it.

this game was SUPER fun, very fast pace, and high intensity. sort of like lacrosse in that you pass it back and forth, and juggle it on the end of the blade, sort of like frisbee in that you can't run more than three steps with the ball in your hand, sort of like baseball, and field hockey, and football, and yeah... it's cool.

later on we learned how to play Gaelic Football. this was sort of like soccer in the layout and the overall flow, but you could carry the ball if you kept dribbling and kick passing it back to yourself. again very quick and..well, crazed since non of knew what we were really doing.

a week later (last night we went to a real GAA double header in the huge Croke Park, a stadium used only for Gaelic sports. in Hurling Dublin came back at the last second to tie it up versus Kilkenny. we watched some of that game from the 4th or 5th row back. some of us watched the second part of that game in the upper tier because it started pouring and even hailing at times. the players never stopped. this is because they are the most badass athletes ever.

during extra time in the football match Dublin tied it up again, and then with one last push scored in the final seconds of the game to go on to win 16-13. reaction below.