The plan for today was to make it in to Midleton for the Saturday farmer’s market, and that we did. After some time at the market getting great foodstuffs we walked a bit in Midleton proper. Girls shopped, boys walked. Boys walked. And walked. Are they done yet?
After Midleton we followed our host’s suggestion to go for pizza at the Ballymaloe Cookerie School, about 20 minutes East. The fresh pizza with organic and local ingredients was fantastic. A fine salad of organic greens and a spot of red wine accompanying the pizza was ‘the bomb’.
After eating we bought the tix to let us explore the farm/property. Absolutely fantastic! So many things to see and do! There were many awesome planted gardens, plants, a treehouse, a giant herb garden with delineating hedges, a pond with quarreling geese, a human-sized Celtic Maze, the most amazing (and frustrating with touchy-feely, insensitive, playful kids) ‘shell house’, pigs, more vegetable gardens and a pony!
OK, no pony. But it was great! After that we headed back to Ballycroneen and the comfort of home. The plan at that point was to have Jordan’s baked potatoes for dinner with an evening trip to Ballycotton for music and fun at the Blackbird (and a 7/14 geocache for me).
When we got to Ballycotton around 9 PM, Jordan, Alex and I dropped the others and went to find the geocache, yay. After a short walk in an amazing location I was able to log a find for 7/14. Yahoo! No cache needed until 9/25! Hopefully the group will return here to do the cliff hike proper.
When most were abed Kristin suggested a card game and she, Catia and I went for it. I made a huge mistake in hearts and turned into a beast, Grrr.
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