Two year anniversary

We celebrated our two year anniversary yesterday. I love you Mariella! Thank you for going on this crazy adventure and for sleeping in a cramped car and soaking wet tent. While in Lahinch we were blessed by meeting some friends of friends. We had a brief visit with John McCarthy and some of his friends and employees. They were kind enough to have coffee and breakfast with us in the midst of a busy surf season. John is an Irish Senior Surf Champion and he runs a surf school in Lahinch. We were also blessed by being invited to one of their community gatherings in which they discussed the planning of an upcoming Christian Surfers Conference they plan to host. Thank you guys for letting us spend time with you. We were impressed by the hearts of our brothers and sisters who desire to be transformed into the likeness of Jesus. We were also blessed to have been welcomed into your community-that was a really huge blessing for Mariella, she loves people, so thanks. And thanks girls for the rice, beans and salsa, we had it for lunch when we got back to Blackrock, delicious!
One morning we were woken up from a nice night in the car. Someone jumped from the hood of the car to the brick wall next to us. Mariella woke up and couldn't sleep for a while and I was back to sleep in a second, we laughed about it the next morning. I guess that’s what we get when we park near a pub. Later, when we returned the rental car, they asked why there was a footprint on the hood of the car. Anyway… after waking up early we cruised down to the beach to wash up. We happened to run into John while he was preparing to open the shop for the day. We mentioned that it was our anniversary, and he spontaneously blessed us with a gift certificate to a B & B. John we are blown away by this undeserved gift. We sincerely thank you. We stayed at a beautiful B & B in the town of Doolin. Where we had a great view of rolling fields of green, a babbling brook with an old stone bridge hovering above. We stayed in the second floor in the corner nearest the creek.
Here are some pics…
Mariella was amazed by the breakfast included. I ordered an omelet and she ordered some smoked salmon, tomato and cottage cheese thing that she couldn't stop talking about. "It was amazing" she exclaimed over, and over again.