Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone,

I have made it home for the Holidays. Who would have thought what an adventure it would be.

So here is some advice next time you are traveling internationally.

First if you think a 2 hours layover is plenty of time , wrong!!!! I had 2 hours in London Heathrow and when I went through security they take your stuff and put it in radon bins to be x-rayed. So here you loaded down with a suitcase, laptop, purse and duty free bag. You are in a hurry and you think you have collected all of your stuff. Wrong again. I left my purse at security and didn't notice until the plane was starting to board.

Thank goodness it was close as I'm running back to security to get my purse. With that crisis over I get on a bus to board the plane. Well the plane was delayed take off for about an hour and I only had just under 2 hours to get my connecting flight in Chicago.

So here I'm am 40 thousand feet in the air thinking please let my next flight be late. Wrong again.

Here I am in Chicago with less than 40 minutes before my flight leaves. So I'm running again through the airport and asking everyone to let me through security so I can try and catch my flight. I'm out of breath as I get to the gate and they tell me you checked in late and we may not let you board. Now I'm really in panic standing at the gate thinking I ran all this way just to sleep in the airport.

Well they made me wait and I was the last one on the plane.

The moral of the story. Have at least 3 hours at every airport so you can put your shoes on when you run to the gate.

I will see all of you soon and here is Cork's idea of a cross bred of Santa Claus.

Christmas shopping in Cork

Hello everyone,

Today was my day off since I will be working my first Saturday since I started so I thought I would take advantage of the weekday off and do some shopping.

I was surprised at how busy the city was for a weekday. I can just imagine how crazy it is now on the weekends. It will be like Walmart the day after Thanksgiving.

I was able to get some pictures of the City and the lights.

See everyone in 2 weeks when I come home. Crazy to think that Christmas is only a couple of weeks away again.

Enjoy the pictures and see you soon.

Teresa

Back in Ireland

Hello all,

I'm back in Ireland and I never thought I was going to miss it here that much. It does feel good to be back and getting things accomplished at work.

Bill surgery went great and he is on the mend doing great!!! It was good to be home and see everyone again at work and the family.

Thanksgiving was good as always and the best part this year was I didn't have to cook. Charlie took care of that and the turkey was ohhh so good.

It is really funny how you adjust to a different surrounding so fast. I do have a funny story to tell everyone about the toilets here in Ireland and the one at home.

I had to get up in the middle of the night and apparently the toilets here are higher than my at home. I fell in the damn thing and then tried to push the button on the tank to flush. Duh there isn't one there.

The tubs are higher here as well and when I stood in mine I felt like I was on the floor.

Well hopefully some of you got a chuckle reading how I fell in the toilet and I will be back on the 18th for the Christmas Holiday.

See everyone soon,

Teresa