Today brought us through Waterford, one of Ireland's oldest cities where we toured the famous Waterford Crystal operation. We had a wonderful tour and saw some amazing craftsmen at work.
After leaving Waterford, we traveled Blarney where we toured Blarney Castle, a medieval castle and home to the famous Blarney Stone. Many of our team members will enjoy the benefits because there was a lot of kissing going on!!!!! Kissing the Blarney Stone is supposed to ensure that you will forever have the gift of gab. That will be great for the bus rides this year!!!
We departed Blarney and spent a wonderful two hours touring and shopping in the great city of Cork. What a wonderful downtown area with great shops (shoppes) and friendly people.
Yesterday began with a wonderful tour of Kilkenny including Kilkenny Castle. What terrific history of the grand Victorian era. We had a great lunch in Kilkenny and then headed off to Wexford for our first match.
Now, about last nights match. We competed against the Wexford Ladies, the 2014/15 Women's League Champion in all of Ireland. A few members of the team are on different teams within the Irish National system and this team is heading to Poland next week to compete against the Polish National Champion and the National champs from Lithuania. We held our own for a lot of the match but dont have the match fitness yet to keep up with a team that's at the end of their season. We lost the match but gained admirers in Ireland. Apparently, we play with "pluck". That was meant to compliment our resolve and fight! I'll take that. I am working on figuring out the technology that will allow me to download photos from the game. By the way, I forgot to mention that our center official for last nights match officiated at the Women's World Cup in Canada!
Good night for now. More tomorrow.
All best
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