Havah Bilow blog: Northern Ireland Giants causeway

Here we are last moments in Dulin!!! Eating our awesome pb and j sandwhiches!!!! getting on a 2 1/2 hour bus ride to Belfast!!! aka Northern Ireland here we COME!

The Lovely Kayla drinking the Chai in BELFAST! we have arrived and are now waiting for our wonderful Host to pick us up!!! WHile waiting Kay falls in love with there chai, I start to have a crush on the waiter, and Melanie wants to Own M&S

Here she is!!! Melanie drinking some Darleejing tea to try it out her first time :) oo allalala

O MY! Here we are walking around Belfast!!! a gorgeous place

Introductions neccessary! here is Kevin He is our host for the rest of our stay in Ireland! He so kindly let me stay with him an extra 3 days to work on my paper! he fed us, and toured us, and let me ride his bike along the coast of Ireland!

Ok here we are walking about in the dark by a brightly lighted courthouse. I instantly know that I love Northern Ireland it is everything I dreamed of. THe leaves floating on the ground, the lights amoung the streets, the kindly people and their Irish accents. I t all makes sense. THis is what i was looking for when coming here, what a instant delight it was to experience!

My lovely girls so refreshing to be around

This is the magic right here, the leaves with their yellow...

The dancing water on the street! i have no idea why they have this here but i like it!!!!

this is the lovely house we stayed at,, it is an original as you can see ;)

Kayla and I happened to climb up getting our rock climbing hands on! wooo

but then this guard was very cold to us,, he wouldnt say anything so i had to leave...

she is ADORABLE

US AND SOME BIG CASTLE

just the silly names of streets you find floating around here is ridiculous! and hilarious all in one hand motion.

the hills are ALIVE with the sound of music... shoulda been playing in the back ground...

Grandma I think I found your bathtub from the desert! what is it doing in ireland!>>!>!> o well here it is good thing we found it!

(diary entry)We are driving through Ireland with Kevin. Listening to Hillsong. (get it hill... song..) any ways its a good worship band. U can see green everywhere, there rolling hills with the silverlined clouds hovering above giving u a sense of ecitement for a possible flip in weather (which never happened). i am so blessed to be here to stay at a home with a host who makes us breakfast and gave us a beautiful room. The simple things in life are such a luxury to us. We feel like royalty here. I feel honored and ever so grateful for the hospitality and kindness Kevin has shown us. he even took me to the pharmacy so I could get moleskin for my blister. There the lady was so kind and lent me her scissors so i could prepare my blister aid. Lord help me to love the people here I want to have a heart annointed by your voice, please dip me into your essence. Thank you that my brother and Amy are getting skype so i can talk with them!! This is our last day together Kay Melanie and I! I pray that i can finish my paper...i need a Miracle ( and by the way.. I finished and turned it in yesterday!)

i know its dead.. but it was beautiful in its finish

I cannot describe to you ,, the beauty!! so i will show you :) just take it in,,, i wish you were there but at least you can see a glimpse!

this is the story of the giants causeway! its a cool legend!
Finn McCool (Fionn mac Cumhail) an Irish Giant lived on an Antrim headland and one day when going about his daily business a Scottish Giant named Fingal began to shout insults and hurl abuse from across the channel. In anger Finn lifted a clod of earth and threw it at the giant as a challenge, the earth landed in the sea.
Fingal retaliated with a rock thrown back at Finn and shouted that Finn was lucky that he wasn't a strong swimmer or he would have made sure he could never fight again.
Finn was enraged and began lifting huge clumps of earth from the shore, throwing them so as to make a pathway for the Scottish giant to come and face him. However by the time he finished making the crossing he had not slept for a week and so instead devised a cunning plan to fool the Scot.
Finn diguised himself as a baby in a cot and when his adversary came to face him Finn's wife told the Giant that Finn was away but showed him his son sleeping in the cradle. The Scottish giant became apprehensive, for if the son was so huge, what size would the father be?
In his haste to escape Fingal sped back along the causeway Finn had built, tearing it up as he went. He is said to have fled to a cave on Staffa which is to this day named 'Fingal's Cave'.
Other versions of the legend include Finn throwing a huge piece of earth which then became the Isle Of Man and the hole which it left behind became Lough Neagh.