Bye bye Ireland.

So tomorrow we head home to England. That is if I haven't throttled the inlaws by then die to their CONSTANT whittering about the baggage allowances of jet2 or whoever we are travelling with.
I will be so pleased to be out of my father in law's place here although I am still unsure if I have detested it so much because of it's 1950's state or whether it is just due to him generally. I have felt slightly better hearing other cousins here saying they also hate the place due to it's dingy bathroom and lack of heat. On the first night here I thought I would die of cold even going to bed with a hot water bottle! The fact that fil and mil kept saying little gems like, 'It's really not too cold tonight,' or, 'it feels nice and warm after all' didn't do anything to alleviate the aching freeze in my bones.
There is also no TV here. Actually that is not true. Fil is just too tight to pay for a license and is worried about being caught so he has a TV but he only brings it in for things he really wants to see. The Apprentice was the only thing considered risk worthy here during my stay.
But yesterday I persuaded hubby to get is back to a holiday mode so we took the kids to Belfast to do touristy things. Got a really good family photo on the Eye. Then had a huge issue remembering where we had parked the car in huge strange city. Mm. Sat nav for pedestrians could be on a wish list... We were lucky we didn't get a ticket.
But we made it out to Giant's causeway and the nearby take your life in your hands ropebridge. Rory did so well with all the walking. Maybe this is why he has been sleeping so well here?
It was just such a different atmosphere away from the in laws.

I have met so many of hubby's cousins and all their offspring. We seem to have been popping in for five minutes here there and everywhere for days. There have been proper family get togethers with 20 kids under the age of 12, making so much noise in the garden that I am amazed the neighbours didn't complain. Another family had 3 bouncy castles brought in for all the kids. And every big do Mac has been wanting to know if there are goody bags at the end! Tonight at another cousin's house when he asked Mac what he wanted to drink, Mac replied how he had already ordered! Like it was a cafe!

We have only had a couple of hours rain the 11 days we have been here which is pretty good going by all accounts.

Tomorrow Rory will get to see England for the first time. Oh and Marks and Sparks here I come!!!