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On the Saturday morning we got up and drove an hour up the coast and to see the Giant’s Causeway. At first the weather wasn’t with us so we ended up in a whiskey distillery. The funny thing was that next thing Susan knows she has been volunteered by the rest of us to be the whiskey taster and is screwing her face up as she knocks back various triple distilled concoctions.

After a spot of lunch the weather had cleared and we loving the very unusual hexagon rock formations and all Jonny’s tales he had acquired from school trips. We also went to see the Carrick a rede rope bridge, which had another challenge for Susan – heights. Still she made it across bridge to the rock in the middle of the sea that had a hut occasionally fisherman used to hangout in. Of course getting there only meant getting back for poor Susan.

That night we played a game called Buzz on the playstation, which was a great Craic (fun) a lot like an old school game I used to play in 1st year called You Don’t Know Jack so it is.

Sunday was a little more sedate as were off home in the afternoon. In the morning we went to Sharon’s church (Whiteabbey Presbyterian) and then onwards to Sharon’s folks for Sunday roast. After a bit of a walk around it was time to get going to the airport so we didn’t miss the flight.

Thanks heaps muckers for having us.

This weekend we went to visit our friend Sharon in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She has a great boyfriend called Jonny who picked us up from the airport, so he did. It was really great of him as we didn’t realise he would have barely been able to contain himself after finding out he got a teaching job that morning.

Our first adventure was the open top bus tour. Where Jonny Susan and I checked out the some of the historical trouble areas such as the falls. There were loads of Ulster paintings on many of the walls and huge iron fences around buildings to try to protect car bombs. We soon realised we weren’t in Kansas anymore. Although the Belfast seemed to be very safe now, I realised you still need to be careful when I said in a loud voice:

“So Ulster are unionist, Protestants who support Celtic?”

Sshhh John said they support Rangers. I soon realised saying I support the wrong football team in the wrong area might just get my head kicked in.

After taking a few pictures we headed back into town and Jonny left us to our own devices checking out the big fish, the compound looking police station and the amazingly flash town hall.

We then met up with Sharon for a stop the clock meal. Basically if you turn up at 5:30 pm you play £5.50 for dinner, turn up at 6:00 pm and pay £6. Of course putting on our student hat’s we all thought if only we had arrived for dinner at 1 pm. After dinner it was time for a round of mini golf in which Susan made a surprise win.