Floating in Tea

After Sarah and I arrived in Dublin, my sister brought us back to the place where we were going to stay.  My sister was staying in my cousin, Joyce’s, house.  Sarah and I were going to stay in their chalet.

My sister made us breakfast of tea, bread, ham and salads.

Then we went visit my other cousin, Helen, Joyce’s sister, for a brief visit.  That was the only place where we didn’t have tea.

We went to my Aunt Violet’s and had tea and biscuits.  From there we went to Greystones and had fish and chips for lunch on the harbour.  Next we visited my Aunt Yvonne and Cousin Billy and had more tea and biscuits.  Cousin Billy was hilarious.  He is an eccentric.

Then we went and picked up my last living Aunt Carrie (my father’s sister).  The other Aunts were Aunts by marriage.  Carrie will be 90 this year.  We went out for a drive for the afternoon and looked at grave sites.

Then we picked up another Aunt Pixie and went back Aunt Carrie’s to a big spread of cake and sandwiches and more tea.  My Aunt Carrie showed us around her place and we saw her donkeys and her horse which I think she keeps to keep the grass down.

Her daughter, my cousin Evelyn, came home but was too busy at first to visit with us.  Later when we were having tea she came over to my Aunt Carrie’s house (they live next door to each other).  My Aunt and my cousin were bickering the whole time, we were having tea and it was hilarious to listen to them.

From there, we met my cousin Helen and her daughter and went out to a pub for dinner.  Sarah and I were so stuffed with tea we couldn’t eat anything.  Then we had an early night because we were jet lagged.