Saturday morning, Kristen’s friend Bernard (who she met at Johnson
and Wales in America, but now lives back in Ireland) and his twin Keiren picked
us up in Galway and took us to their farm in Sligo, which is about an hour and
a half away.
It was the coolest experience. Although Bernard and Keiren
are not big fans of working on the farm and more so the business men, the two
younger brothers Dermot and Shannon love it and were ready to show us around.
After putting on farm clothes (or more so borrowed sweatpants and sweatshirts
from the boys) and our wellies (big farm boots), we headed out to the farm with
the younger two and they showed us about.
From the cows to the alpaca named Christopher (who Brittany
later named Topher for short), we saw it all. They had dogs, baby cows, beef cows, milking cows, and chickens.
We were even able to feed the cows and drove around on a four wheeler to count
the sheep. Also, we got to drive the tractor around! Sadly, Brittany being
herself and being quite unlikely when it comes to transportation, broke the
four wheeler on a whim and we had to take that back to the farm so they could
fix it.
On the bright side, it was actually kind of sunny out (which
we are finding out is very unusual for Ireland) and although it was still cold
outside, when we came back from our farm work (or more so watching the boys do
farm work and them fixing all our mistakes) there was cabbage stew and tea prepared
by the older boys simmering on the stove top.
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