Head over to According to Boyle for my 2nd attempt at blogging!

“What?” you say? No, I’ve been busy. But it’s no excuse! I’ve been such a blog slacker!

Never fear – I am here with Day 3 of my trip (now last month :\) to Northern Ireland!

Day 3 in a nutshell! We spent most of the day drinking and grilling with my Uncle Chris, his lovely wife, Michelle, and their 3 attractive children! My, they look an awful lot like me!

As I had no comments on my last post, I’m going to continue with the photo-blog theme. Hover over a photo to get a little more of the story!

So that was the official Day 2, Monday, June 21st. Did I mention that every day in Ireland felt like at least 2? It was amazing. Time went so slow and the sun stayed out until about 10:30-11 each night! UH-mazing! Stay tuned for Day 3 where we travel to Belfast!

Boarding a plane is nothing special (unless its your first international flight, JB!) so we’ll move right along.

You know, I think the over 15,000 photos I took can explain most of our trip…let’s try a simple photo blog of the “first day” with minimal interjections.

If you didn’t catch on, you can hover your mouse over each photo to get a little better description as to what’s going on!

PP How do you like this format? Do you want the full length stories? Some of them can be quite long so I thought this would be a bit more entertaining. Let me know what you think!

Filed under: Leaving Town ]]> http://thepurplepeach.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/northern-ireland-day-1/feed/ 1 Miss Em Jazzy Jax and JRB Mike & Jerry Goobers on a plane. My pile of pillows didn't help me or the Mr. sleep very well. Sunrise before landing. Who is that driving? ME! Refueling the cars and peeps found us a cow bench! Pit stop in Warrenpoint! GORGEOUS! The view out of the left side of the vehicle for most of the drive (as taken by Jerry). Welcome to Newcastle! Newcastle Beach and the Mourne Mountains Us with Granny Mac Dad and Uncle Gerad and Aunt Susan. Shots for Caitlyn's Birthday! Caitlyn welcomes Jordo to the party! Caitylyn's surprise party after drinks and before dinner. :) 8:30PM bedtime on Sunday night...this is the view from the back window in the stairwell of our house. http://thepurplepeach.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/northern-ireland-the-cast/ http://thepurplepeach.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/northern-ireland-the-cast/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:01:39 +0000 Miss Em http://thepurplepeach.wordpress.com/?p=778 ]]> I figured I may have a reader or two (fingers crossed!) who isn’t family and thought, maybe I’ll introduce you to the cast of characters for my recent trip so you all know who I’m talking about when I’m talking about them. So let’s begin!

JOHNY MAC – aka Papa, aka Mi Da – Born and raised in Belfast, Norther Ireland, it is safe to say that Johny Mac was our tour guide/story teller/GPS system (b/c renting one was another 9 Euro a day and you know I’m cheap).

JAZZY JAX – aka Mama Jax, aka Lady J, aka Jackie – Step Mom extraordinaire, Jazzy Jax kept the troops in line, well fed and well bathed. (Which was not an easy feat when we get to Day 3).

CATE – aka My Big Sister – Acting out all over Ireland, Cate was a happy tourist visiting family and getting inked while making her 2nd trip to the Emerald Isle.

MIKE – aka Mikey, aka Cate’s Husband – The silliest BIL you can ask, Mikey is constant entertainment and full of random information you may, or may not, care to know.

JORDAN – aka Jordo, aka My Step Brother – Jordan makes his first ever appearance on TPP and in Ireland! Also a house of random information, you can count on Jordan to break the silence with a funny story.

CAITLYN – aka Jordan’s Girlfriend – Caitlyn is a long lost sister of mine and Cate’s. Just as fun and goofy as we are, she was adopted by my Dad while we strolled the streets of Newcastle.

Then, of course, there is us! And in case you don’t know yet, we are Jerry and Emily, entertainment/paparazzi/peace makers/fun revelers.

I can’t wait to get started on our journey!

…and I have plenty of stories! I’ll be dishing them up by day (it’s easier that way – I took a butt load of photos)! I hope you stay tuned for all of the adventures and misadventures that my travel group had!

1. I’m getting married. A lot of planning goes into getting married and we’ve just confirmed a date and a place. Check, check!

2. I’m going to Ireland! It’s my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary (they live in Belfast) so I’ll be traveling with family to visit them (and the rest of my Father’s family) and taking a holiday in Newcastle! *sigh* Sometimes it’s awesome to have family living overseas.

So, my apologies, but I have been quite happily busy and will be MIA for the next week.

Have a good one!

One of the greatest things about Rochester is all of the minor league teams. So we went to a game!

It even threatened to rain (but didn’t) and I got a pretty sweet photo.

And then some of our friends showed up! Well, they were there already but across the field and we had some open seats so they headed our way.

They’re a little camera shy. :p

Gotta love a baseball game! How’d you spend your weekend?

Moving on.

Two weeks later, I finally got around to edging “the dark side” of the front garden. Just thought I’d share an updated photo!

I know it’s a quick post with *gasp* only 1 photo but I’ve been otherwise preoccupied this week. There have been MAJOR developments on the wedding front and I’m so excited to share them once we get them finalized!

I like saving green both in and outside of my wallet so I looked it up and was jaw-droppingly surprised by the price. I have to say, I was hesitant to buy it – sounds too good to be true but the Petersiks have it. They must get a bazillion things to try and only post about the ones they like so I quickly decided that I trust their judgement and ordered mine.

And Jerry installed it. B/c I’m spoiled.

There it is! In all its toilety goodness!

I have to admit, I do love that there is a button to push instead of a handle – it feels so futuristic!

Sometimes we have to push the single button twice (defeating the purpose of the thing) but then that’s only like flushing once still…so…whatever.

PP Get any new gadgets? As seen on TV items? Find any winners in the pack? Let me know!