There is so much happening...

The joy:

We had a new baby granddaughter on Friday around 2 PM, courtesy of Maria and Joey. Gabriella is beautiful, don't you think?

The sorrow:

Later that day (rather Sat. at 4:30 in the morning) we turned off the interstate into a mass of water. Our county was flooding & it still rained 4 more hours. The town and the roads were closed, we had water in our new addition. The pond and lake were overflowing the dams...we had our own waterfalls. We also had a large lake instead of trees. Some poor people lost everything, and the farmers sure lost their crop.

This is one of the fields:

This is our woods along the road:

And this is our road:

Home again, home again jiggity jig

Well we are home, and actually have been. We landed late Memorial Day. I have been so busy, with being gone so long, work really piled up. And La Sirena moved last week-end so I have helped her pack and unpack, AND I have been suffering from the worst jet lag you can imagine. I have never been affected by it before. Not pleasant nor productive. By the way, in previous posts the day #s are all wrong, so ignore them.

Also, I have written this post 3 times. Each time I was just about to submit, the whole site went away. I hope I have better luck this time....

...but where was I? Oh, yes, we said good-bye to Lithuania. Well I still have stories to tell, later.

We left Lithuania at 11:30 PM on the 20th and arrived in Dublin at 12:30 AM. We had a room reserved right by the airport. We headed to Northern Ireland in the morning. All I can say is I never need to go back to Belfast again!

The people are really not friendly; although that is understandable. There is just not much charm in the city. Also, it was odd seeing statues erected to someone as if they were a hero, when I was raised considering them a villain. At any rate, we ended up not even eating there; we just moved on up the road. On to Carrigfergus.....