We were able to get into First Class. The seat is a mechanical wonder. It fully reclines and has a built in video screen for movies. I chose 10000 BC as my movie. The food was great. Take a look at the pictures. It was a great flight!

Our last stop in Ireland is Shannon Airport. Getting through security was a breeze and next comes US Customs. There are a lot of US service men and women here on their way way for deployment I’m Baghdad. The plane is under booked so we have our seat assignments already before going through US Customs. Next stop – USA!

After 6+ hours of traveling we made our way back to the first B&B we stated in, the Shannon Lodge. We are up bright and early (8:00-ish) and will be heading down for our last Irish breakfast. It all went by so quickly.

Dad and I took a walk to the waterfall. It was a very nice walk to the spectacular waterfall.

After the waterfall we took a trip to Tessie’s for a visit. There was a bike out aide her door so we thought one of John and Marie’s boys but it turned out to be John Heekin. It was anotherbnice visit.

We went off to Ballyliffen for dinner then to visit John and Mary Friel and their family. John Heekin was here as well. Rita had already hopped on the Bingo bus. Mary had missed it and John was volunteered to drive her to bingo. We had a great visit with John and Mary’s kids.

It was an early morning. The sun was shining but the wind was howling. We gathered all of our belongings and packed up he car. We stopped by John and Marie Friel’s to say our good-byes. We then stopped off at Tessies to say good-bye and them we were off. The weather is now rather nasty. We passed through Ballyboffy. We’re just outside of Sligo now stopping for a bite to eat. Next stop, Shannon (in about 4 hours)

This post comes to you from Malin Head, Ireland’s most northern point. You can see the Scottish coast from here just as you can see Martha’s Vineyard from Falmouth. The views are breathtaking. This was onlyna 45 minute drive from Dunaff.

Marie Friel dropped by this morning before she went off to Bunceanna to care for her mom. Alice and Ann (mom’s cousin from England) also stopped by for a bit. We took the very short trip over the hill to the Lenan fishing pier and then off to the beach. It is a very unusual stretch of shore as it is a sand beach as opposed to the usual all rock shore line lines in this area.

After the beach we stopped home and I dropped by John and Mary’s to pick up John Heekin. We had a great visit and went through a bunch of his old photos from his visit to the US back in 1976. We went off to the Ballyliffin Club and Spa for an early dinner.

After dinner we took John home and we simply retired for the evening in front of the TV.

Another wonderful day in Dunaff.

With an early 6:30 start to the day I made my way to the kitchen be started the kettle to boil for a morning cup of tea. I turned on the radio ant tuned to RTE and heard the terrable news of the airliner crash in Spain.

For this post I’ll take you on a pictoral walk around town.

We had just returned from our trip to Bunceanna and Carndonagh when I rang up John and Mary Friel to see if they would be around later in the evening. It was just after 6:00pm when I called. I spoke to Mary and she said that they all thought we would have been down on Monday. I must have implied that when I called them earlier in the week. I felt pretty bad about that. Mary explained that she and John had her son Damian’s football game to go to (socket to us Yanks) at 7:00 and could we come down now. I said “Sure we’ll be right down.” I told everyone what had just been planned (with out their input) and said, “Let’s go, we’re off to John Roxtown’s”. We zipped down the road to John and Mary’s and were greeted by Mary. as she welcomed us into her home she said that we didn’t need to ring but just drop in any time. I explained that it must be a cultural thing. We Yanks seem to need to plan things out. John Heelin was there along with John and Mary’s boy Damian and daughter Kelly. John was down in the potato field spraying the spuds to prevent blight. Damian went to Rita’s house across the road to let her know we were here. We had just found out yesterday that Rita’s house that is just behind John and Mary’s is NOT Rita’s home! Ann and I felt so foolish. The last time we were here we must have asked, “Who’s house is that?” and the answer was, “Rita’s”. We had assumed Rita lives there. Rita has a lovely home just across the street.

While waiting for Rita we began the lovely visit with John Heelin and Mary Friel.

Rita arrived a short while later as did John (Roxtown) Friel. They call John, John Roxtown to distinguish him from the other John Friels like his cousin John just up the road.

We had an absoultly wonderful visit. John Roxtown and his family went off to the football game just before 7:00 and we continued our visit with Aunt Rita and John Heekin. At one point dad was going to take a picture of John Heekin. We were then reminded how much Aunt Rita doesn’t like her picture taken. She left to have a smoke. We felt bad that she thought dad was going to snap a shot of her. When she returned she quipped to mom, “Where were you all with your cameras when I was young enough to have my picture taken.”

Mom, dad and Rita got on just great. We stayed until almost 10:00. We’ll plan on another visit with John and Mary at some point. We will also be planning a visit with John Heekin.

Sorry – no pictures with this post.

After a nice full Irish Breakfast dad and I took a walk down to Friel’s to get a morning paper. We lounged about for an hours or so and headed off to Buncranna. We stopped into O’Flaherty’s for a late lunch. We had to jump into some place quick as Ann’ sugar took a very unexpected dive into the 50s. Dad had a massive burger, mom had a tuna sandwich, Ann had a lovely looking Irish stew and I had a Guinness. You know that Guiness is good food.

There are a number of “Amusement” establishments here where one could gamble if one were so inclined. Maybe mom & dad will try their luck on a slot machine or two.

Off to the shops…

I was feeling a bit energetic this morning so I cooked up a full Irish breakfast for everyone. The breakfast is 2 eggs, 2 rashers, white pudding, black pudding, toast and a fried tomato. Everyone but me considered the black pudding as decoration.